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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways
- The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet is disposable for $190.
- Designed for older children aged six to 12, this kids' tablet features a slimmer design, amended performance, beardown parental controls, and a free surface repair aliases replacement wrong 2 years of purchase.
- While it's amended than different Amazon Fire Kids tablets, nan Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet doesn't outperform an iPad -- but it's besides a fraction of nan iPad's price.
What makes a bully tablet? It's easy to tie up criteria of features to look for: A accelerated processor, a user-friendly platform, portability, and artillery life, to sanction a few. What makes a bully kids' tablet? Amazon appears to beryllium successful nan moving to fig that out, and they're connected way to nail nan formula.
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I've been testing nan caller Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet since its launch. This is nan latest procreation of nan Fire HD 10 Pro, a kids' tablet aimed astatine children from six done 12. The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet promises a 25% faster capacity than nan Fire HD 10 Kids, a longer artillery life, and a higher-quality front-facing camera astatine 5MP, up from 2MP.
Why take a Fire tablet? Many parents get their kids an older-generation iPad, for illustration nan 9th-gen iPad, arsenic their first tablet. If you person a younger kid and are acrophobic an iPad won't clasp up to their handling, see an Amazon Fire Tablet.
Since my oldest of 3 is successful 2nd grade, I've tried respective Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids tablets. iPads are great, and my hubby and I each person one. But ever since my iPad surface sewage cracked by a inexpensive lawsuit a mates of years ago, I'm little than enthused astir giving an eight-year-old specified a vulnerable tablet.
This is why I for illustration Amazon Fire Kids' tablets for my small ones. Plus, Amazon replaces them if they break wrong 2 years. They're besides eligible for trade-ins erstwhile you want to upgrade to a caller instrumentality you're buying connected Amazon.
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At nan ripe property of eight, my oldest is craving "big kid" devices. I'm not 1 to get my kid a smartphone conscionable yet, but we had considered graduating her pinch a large kid tablet successful nan shape of an iPad this Christmas.
I thought nan problem was successful nan different two: a kindergartner and a toddler who lacked an knowing of individual spot aliases space. It felt for illustration nan Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet was built for this reason, but aft almost a twelvemonth of testing, my oldest collapsed her tablet's screen.
My kid's bad wont of leaving nan tablet connected nan level was yet curbed erstwhile I accidentally tripped complete it and cracked nan Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet's screen. After quelling nan tears, I contacted Amazon customer work to spot what could beryllium done. A typical instructed maine to nonstop nan tablet successful to measure whether nan surface could beryllium replaced aliases if a caller tablet was necessary. In nan end, Amazon sent america a caller Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet to switch nan surgery one, pinch nan full process taking nether 2 weeks.
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This bigger, 'Pro' level tablet has been nan cleanable upgrade from nan smaller Fire 8-inch model, which is cloaked successful a chunky protective case. Aside from having a larger 10-inch display, nan Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet is protected by a slim lawsuit that is much kid-friendly than kid-proof, arsenic Amazon's listing describes.
Like different Fire Kids tablets, nan Fire HD 10 Pro kids tablet besides includes nan Amazon Kids+ subscription. This tin beryllium renewed aft 1 year, but nan timer resets whenever you bargain a caller Fire Kids tablet aliases different instrumentality that includes nan subscription.
The Fire HD 10 Kids Pro has proven to beryllium faster than some generations of our Fire HD 8 Kids tablets. Since nan older ones were passed down to a five-year-old and a three-year-old, that hasn't been a problem, but nan eight-year-old who owns nan Fire HD 10 Kids Pro decidedly noticed nan difference.
Though my firstborn is getting connected successful years and looking for much grown-up tech, she is still eight. In almost a twelvemonth of use, nan Fire HD 10 Kids Pro has been dropped countless times and stepped connected astatine slightest a twelve times. Like nan older models, it has remained wholly unaffected, isolated from for nan abovementioned arena (which was promptly resolved by Amazon).
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I admit that Amazon's Kids Tablets person beardown parental controls. I tin easy power what my kids watch, o.k. their app and acquisition requests, and group up clip limits from nan app connected my phone. When it's clip for bed, and my kids are stalling connected their tablets, I tin quickly entree nan app connected my telephone and artifact them, which oddly results successful less groans than if I determine to return them away.
Aside from entree to thousands of apps and games, Amazon besides has collaborative games that kids tin play pinch others. My kids and I often play Sketch 'n Guess, a virtual word-guessing crippled successful which 1 personification draws thing and nan different tries to conjecture it. I play from my phone, and nan kids play from their tablets.
Like Sketch 'n Guess, there's besides Memory Match, Jigsaw, Chess, Checkers, Dessert Decorator, Chain Reaction, and much "Play Together" games included pinch Amazon Kids+. Even my five-year-old tin play since nan games tin publication retired large immoderate nan kids can't read.
ZDNET's buying advice
If you're trying to take betwixt an iPad aliases a Fire HD 10 Kids Pro tablet, overmuch will dangle connected your kid's property and really they will usage it. Amazon has refined nan Amazon Kids level into a kid-friendly personification acquisition that doesn't consciousness childish for older kids but that younger kids tin still navigate.
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This tablet tin grip aggregate profiles, including young children, older children, and adults, truthful it tin turn pinch nan kids. However, it is still constricted by its 3GB of RAM and a slower processor than an A13 Bionic chip.
An iPad has much high-end features, for illustration a amended processor and camera, and is simply a grown-up level that is cleanable for older kids, those who for illustration to do much intricate play, for illustration editing photos, and moreover those successful nan Apple ecosystem. Even if we are an Apple family, I'll proceed getting my youngsters Fire kids tablets until they tin admit nan worth of a instrumentality you can't locomotion on.
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