Amazon Fire or other tablet ?

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Hi I want to buy ds (7) something for his birthday to play games (spelling app, photo apps and Minecraft etc)
The Amazon Fire - is it good? I read something about pop ups and you have to pay £10 to stop them? That's ok. Or should I go for another brand Thank you

I just got an amazon gift for DH and one for myself. It's great. there are certain apps you can't get like now tv both otherwise they are great for games etc and the ads don't bother me. I've read you can deactivate them for a small amount but I haven't looked into it.

I think it's 10 pound to get rid of the ads

When you order it, you can buy the standard one, or the one that’s called something like ‘without special offers’ (i.e. without ads) - yes, it’s £10 more. Or you can pay to have them removed later if you buy a standard one.

Ok great. I'm thinking of purchasing cheaper covers and screen protectors from Amazon to keep costs down.

Sorry that should say I got an amazon fire for him and one for me (there was a deal on qvc where I almost got two for the price of one so worth shipping around)

I've had a Samsung tab3 tablet and iPad. iPads are overpriced imho. Samsung was better that this amazon as it did more and was slimmer but the amazon one is perfectly adequate for the price. Probably better for a child as a result.

I have had (many) amazon fires and a samsung tablet. Its a good tablet for what it is, but don't be expecting vast amounts for it.

Benefits: its tiddly, small and very very thin. It's incredibly cheap for what it is (,don't bother with removing ads unless you feel strongly about it). It's fantastic for accessing any Amazon stuff (music books videos audible). Its really fab as an ereader for kindle and kindle unlimited It holds a reasonable amount of other apps and videos.

In short It's a good on the move entertainment system thats cheap enough that your not upset when your kid (or the baggage handlers at airport security,) break it, in fact youve probably got a spare one in the cupboard from last black Friday...

Drawbacks: its operating system is harder to navigate that android. Not all apps are available on it. Your average phone is more powerful/useful.

I like it for the kindle and ebook access and it gives me something when i want to leave my phone on charge. DS(SN) likes it because he destroys phones and tablets and I can afford his one a year kindle habit. DD abandoned hers very quickly for her phone

We got DS an older iPad mini, based on the price of a replacement screen (DS broke one deliberately but he and DD broke two others by accident. Note there was a LONG iPad free gap between the breakage and the new-to-us iPad).

I adore mine. I have the ads on but it's not something you notice after the first 5 minutes of owning it. It's just what appears on the locked screen and a small thing on the home page I think.

Watch out for:
Alexa now being unremovable (not automatically switched on, yet, but I would not really like my DD to have access or vice versa).
Parental restrictions remove use of the whole internet browser and the ability to take photos, which is a bit extreme. Kind of all-or-nothing.
Most of the Amazon store kids' app games that we have looked at don't have very long standing attraction potential, and many rely on in-game purchases which aren't worth it.
Like the books and audio books but tried out Kindle Unlimited (for her and for me) and haven't really got much out of that personally. Have done better on Borrowbox, including for children's audio content if you reserve early (for holiday listening etc) which is an app that I get through our library.

I use a kindle fire instead of a laptop, it's absolutely fine. I did use to have a samsung which was much more expensive, I much preferred it, but you get what you pay for. I have to replace tablets quite often so the kindle does the job.

Thank v much. I went ahead and got it. It's fine. It doesn't break the bank.