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Kids amazon fire

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Bing765 · 02/10/2024 08:42

Hi,
Can anyone recommend the amazon fire 7 for my 2 and 4 year old? Mainly for car/ holiday journeys but I would be open to learning games for my 4 year old too. They're on offer for £50 each, is that a good price or do they go any cheaper?
Thanks

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Danikm151 · 02/10/2024 08:45

To be honest you can get any tablet and just get the amazon kids subscription.

i find the battery on the fire lasts well but it can be slow and a bit clunky

SonicTheHodgeheg · 02/10/2024 08:47

Do you have Amazon Prime ? Amazon Prime Days are the best days to get the best deals on Amazon branded gadgets and the next one is 8/9 October. It will be the same price as their Black Friday deals on Amazon branded gadgets.

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Bing765 · 02/10/2024 21:20

Oh yes I do have prime. Thanks I'll hold off until then

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ChristmasPlan · 02/10/2024 22:58

I would just bear in mind that you very much get what you pay for with them. We have a fire 8 for my 3 year old, and find it incredibly slow and clunky, and definitely wouldn’t buy one again - but it was much cheaper than the better alternatives so…

Mamma2346 · 02/10/2024 23:26

We have it and I think it's rubbish. I wanted a tablet that only had a handful of apps I approved of.

With Amazon kids you can't download some apps like Google apps on it - we use it to share photos. Other educational apps just aren't available on the Amazon fire store. YouTube kids is not available, and I find that really good for educational stuff.

There is a work around but you have to remove the kids profile, use the adult profile for the fire, and go through a number of steps to install Google play. So to lock down the tablet you lose the parental control benefits. You may as well have a normal Amazon Fire or any other tablet.

Also the parental controls are only good in that you can turn it off remotely from your phone. But you can't control the apps you child is exposed to unless you do it one by one - and there are thousands of pointless games. You can filter by age and educational games, but then you lose some of the fun games you do want to approve!

If I could do over I'd get a refurbished iPad. But we're stuck with the Amazon Fire. With all the workarounds it's fine now but it was such a faff to get here.

Mamma2346 · 02/10/2024 23:28

you can't control the apps you child is exposed to unless you block* them one by one

Mamma2346 · 02/10/2024 23:28

And yes it's much slower than an iPad

Mamma2346 · 02/10/2024 23:30

If you do a Google search for blocking all the apps bar a handful you want to keep, Amazon just says there's no demand for it. But people are asking so there clearly is a demand!

Advent0range · 02/10/2024 23:30

Don't do it. Rubbish, slow. Difficult to use parental controls.

MilesOfCarpetTiles · 02/10/2024 23:32

Mine is slow, and loads of apps you can't really get on it without hacking them a bit.
I've promised my kids I'll get an Android/Ipad soon as I want something that can have their usual apps and it'd be useful to have a few of mine on there.

slipperypenguin · 02/10/2024 23:32

Honestly it's shite. You would be better saving for an iPad

Hayley1256 · 02/10/2024 23:33

My DD hated the kids tablet, it was slow and I found it not very user friendly. She's had a Samsung for the past few years and it's great. It's linked to my phone so I jave full parental controls, can lock it and out it into downtime, block apps, set screen time limits etc. It's fab

Hayley1256 · 02/10/2024 23:34

Just to add, I think itbwould be fine for the 2 year old but not the 4 year old. You can get protective cases for any tablet

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