The complete guide to the best laptops on the marketĪmazon Fire HD 8 Kids Edition review: price and verdict.You won't have to stop to charge this tablet during the day. Depending on the age of your child, it might be worth considering the options before you go with Amazon, with iPads particularly good when it comes to parental controls (they're also more expensive of course).Īmazon claims 12 hours of "reading, browsing the web, watching video and listening to music", and in our one-hour video streaming test the battery level dropped from 100 percent to 91 percent – that roughly works out as a little over 11 hours of battery life, so it sounds as though Amazon is about right in its claims.
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It's all very simple and straightforward, and we think most kids will have a great time with this tablet.ĭo bear in mind that as good as the Fire for Kids Unlimited deal is, it does tie you to another subscription once the free year expires – and it's also worth noting that the Amazon App Store is not quite as well stocked as the Apple or Google equivalent. Switch back to the adult account, which requires a PIN, and you can use the tablet just like a standard Fire 8 HD (with Amazon Prime Video, the web and so on). Setting up a child account on the tablet is very straightforward, and you can specify the child's age so that relevant content is organised and promoted.
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That subscription (normally £1.99 a month) gives you access to a wealth of content across movies, TV shows, apps and games, and in our time with it seems to be a great deal – there's stuff here from CBeebies, Disney, Nickelodeon and more. You wouldn't expect the Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Edition to break any performance records or come packed with features – its appeal lies in other areas, like the one year subscription to Fire for Kids Unlimited that comes with the tablet.
Overall, it's once again hard to fault anything about the design of the Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Edition. You'd have to be really trying to manage to break this, but the guarantee adds some extra peace of mind, just in case anything happens. It'll take all kinds of knocks and drops, it keeps kids' sticky fingers off the hardware itself, and it comes with a really useful kickstand built in (something we wish the grown-up Fire HD tablets had, actually).Īmazon is continuing its very generous offer to replace your tablet for free, no questions asked, if your children manage to break it within the first two years. The biggest design difference when you buy a Kids Edition tablet is the thick, rubbery casing you get – yours in blue, pink or purple – and it's really one of the strengths of this tablet. The bezels are a bit on the thick side for 2020 standards, but it doesn't really matter – you get exactly what you pay for, which is a cheap and solid tablet for the kids. The move to USB-C is a welcome one, as of all the chargers and cables we've got lying around the house, there are far more USB-C ones nowadays. It's perfectly fine, and the same can be said of the rest of the tablet's design.
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