Getting Nokia T21 as my first ever android tablet.

[Honyasu]

Hello there, I'm currently a part-time teacher on elementary school. I'm thinking to step up my teaching with an android tablet to play a video to projector for my students. But I have no idea about tablets.

I watched internet and I found Nokia T21.

Can I connect it to a school projector with HDMI?

Also Is it worth the money since my max budget is 3 Million IDR or around 230 USD? Or should I change to another tablet?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

[SirWendall]

13 minutes ago, Honyasu said:

Hello there, I'm currently a part-time teacher on elementary school. I'm thinking to step up my teaching with an android tablet to play a video to projector for my students. But I have no idea about tablets.

I watched internet and I found Nokia T21.

Can I connect it to a school projector with HDMI?

Also Is it worth the money since my max budget is 3 Million IDR or around 230 USD? Or should I change to another tablet?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

Only thing you can do is cast to a screen. It only has a USB-C port on it.

[Honyasu]

6 minutes ago, SirWendall said:

Only thing you can do is cast to a screen. It only has a USB-C port on it.

Oh, ok... I thought the OTG could do that... I may not be able to cast that since my school's projector only use the VGA connector. I will note this. Thanks

[jaslion]

What does the tablet need to do?

 

It can not use its usb c port to output a display signal

 

Keep in mind this tablet will not be fast or super responsive as its using a low end soc from 2 years ago which wasnt great back then.

 

It also gets NO updates and is basically dead in the water software support wise due to the old soc. Its perfectly useable but its a good thing to know

[E-waste]

22 hours ago, jaslion said:

Keep in mind this tablet will not be fast or super responsive as its using a low end soc from 2 years ago which wasnt great back then.

 

I know you're offering advice, but to me this just seems really picky.  How much longer would it really take, to open Fennec (Firefox branch, with about:config) or a photo, or load a web page?

 

Is it so awful that it makes the device annoying to use, or is this just... preference on performance to put it nicely?  I do very much appreciate you put in the effort to check update support, very important.

[E-waste]

OP, I don't think you need a tablet.  What I think you could use is an old, (very old by this point) laptop with a vga port.  The battery probably won't be maintained well, probably not used in a long time.

 

I think a laptop running Linux operating system like Fedora, with the light weight xfce or even fluxbox desktop, using Mozilla Firefox web browser would be enough to show videos.

 

I'm interested to know what information you are showing, is it tech, or building things, or monetary, or electronic waste and cobalt mining education?

[jaslion]

5 hours ago, E-waste said:

Is it so awful that it makes the device annoying

That basically.

 

It has 2 weak performance cores and the rest are efficiency ones so it will experience quite noticeable slowdown.

 

Basically compareable to samsungs older a7 2020 tablet

[Honyasu]

On 4/7/2023 at 8:30 PM, E-waste said:

OP, I don't think you need a tablet.  What I think you could use is an old, (very old by this point) laptop with a vga port.  The battery probably won't be maintained well, probably not used in a long time.

 

I think a laptop running Linux operating system like Fedora, with the light weight xfce or even fluxbox desktop, using Mozilla Firefox web browser would be enough to show videos.

 

I'm interested to know what information you are showing, is it tech, or building things, or monetary, or electronic waste and cobalt mining education?

I just want to show my student picture to learn English. With tablet I thougt it can be more fun since my student could press a picture to answer.

[LanerJ]

Most cheaper android tablets don't support HDMI alt mode, which is what you'll need to get video out from the USB-C port. With the budget you're on, maybe have a look at something like a Surface Go or older Surface Pro. I use a Surface Go for note taking with a cheap knockoff $20 pen and it's a little slow but it's alright, it doesn't run Android apps though so if you have your heart set on that, it won't work. I believe that would work over a Type C HDMI adapter you could get for pretty cheap. Otherwise your only other option would be to use screen mirroring with a Chromecast stick or something along with an Android Tablet. 

[SilverMoonIV]

On 4/18/2023 at 6:17 PM, Honyasu said:

I just want to show my student picture to learn English. With tablet I thougt it can be more fun since my student could press a picture to answer.

You could buy a P.C. and a tablet within your budget, and send the screen of tablet to P.C. to projector :

https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Android-Compact-Lasting-Battery/dp/B094Q89NKH/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3MAZ6282T9OP0&keywords=tablet&qid=1682440488&sprefix=tab%2Caps%2C244&sr=8-3&th=1

it is 121$ right now, the cheapest I can trust not to stop working on you.

full specifications: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_tab_a7_lite-10933.php

 

the P.C. [ Renewed i5 Mini PC: HP EliteDesk 800 G2 ] :

it's price goes from 100-150$ or so on Amazon, just make sure you get it from a trusted seller if not from a local shop in your country so you can see it working in front of you.