According to the profile, you live in Ireland. PayScale says your salary should be at least in the 50.000 euro range. I think you could definitely give a Nexus

According to the profile, you live in Ireland. PayScale says your salary should be at least in the 50.000 euro range. I think you could definitely give a Nexus as a gift to your father if you wanted to. It depends on whether you think it would be a gift he'd appreciate and use, I guess. I've given a laptop as a gift to my grandmother, and a Kindle as a gift to my uncle (we're very close), on a salary of U$ 10.000 yearly. In both cases the devices were used extensively, and it was something they wouldn't have bought or couldn't have afforded themselves, and it made me very happy to see them use the devices (especially my grandmother, everybody was betting she wouldn't learn how to use it).