Amazon Kids Fire 7

[saywhatwhatnow]

I'm so gutted, I looked about a month ago and they were about £80 at Argos, waited for pay day and they've gone up to £110. I wanted to get one for both DCs and that's quite a lot more than I had budgeted. Im wondering if anyone amazing here can find them cheaper or on a cash back deal or anything really. HELP!

Wait for Black Friday they generally go to half rrp on Amazon.

I got Ds's for £60 on Prime day from Amazon. Maybe wait until black friday/cyber monday too see if they come down again.

They will go down they always do, definitely before Xmas I’m gutted I missed them at £25 the other day (not kids version)

I think they have raised the price in anticipation of reducing them. They don't support a number of apps that we need for DC though. We had to get a different tablet in the end as he couldn't use some of the learning apps school wanted him using. So I suggest checking they are fully compatible with what you want to use them for. Up until then, it was a great wee tablet.

The 7 will be obsolete fairly soon, the 8 won't cost much more on Black Friday but will likely last quite a bit longer

Definitely wait for Black Friday / Cyber Monday.

Ahh yeah I hadn't really thought about Black Friday, good plan.

And that's interesting about getting the 8, there is also a 10 but it's very expensive. We do have an iPad but they argue over it (and I hate some of the apps) so wanted to get the amazon kids and they can use our Netflix on it. And I can limit it a bit more. What apps did you find weren't compatible @Snugglemonkey

We hated the fires. Unintuitive, slow, the restrictions were terrible. I'd get a second hand iPad or new if money not an issue.

They'll 100% be reduced around Black Friday. The 8 will probably be around £60-£70 for the kids edition, £40 something for just the tablet.

I would definitely go for the 8 if you can afford it, it's a slightly bigger screen but it holds charge for so much longer and is just better all round. My dd has an 8 and my son had the 7, I just recently upgraded his to the 8 for his birthday as my dd's would stay charged for so much longer with the same usage.

Agree with @AriettyHomily Kindle is so poor in comparison to iPad. If you put the controls on you can decide what apps to download on there. Much better money spent imo

Prime day on amazon.
If you are a prime customer for more than 12m you may also be able to pay monthly with no interest too, which is what I did when I got my son his a few years ago.

We just can't afford an iPad at the moment otherwise I would get another one. I know they are tonnes better. However it is really only to watch kids programs, all the school apps we can still use on the iPad.

I got a kindle fire 8 pro kids one for 70 recently on Amazon so I’d just keep an eye out for the sale

They are fine not everyone can afford an iPad my kids have had them they aren’t the best but they are perfectly fine

I couldn't tell you now tbh. We got a Lenovo as we didn't want to buy an iPad. We got the fire bundle with the replacement promise, which was a good idea as they replaced it 3 times! Not taking any chances on iPads!

What about a refurbished one from CEX?

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