Fire HD 8 Kids Tablet

The Fire HD 8 Kids is an ordinary 8-inch tablet from Amazon in a thick kids' case with a fold-out handle, intended according to the manufacturer for children aged three to seven. The child gets their own profile with shows, audiobooks, games and learning apps from Amazon Kids+, and you decide what runs and for how long. In the video from “Papas Vlog”, a four-year-old drags letters into place in an ABC app, and the father sets it so that a learning app comes first before Paw Patrol is allowed, with separate times for weekdays and weekends. In a forum, parents tell of five hours on the motorway with episodes downloaded beforehand. At our home, my daughter uses an older model very sparingly. It is enormously important to control the content yourself, since there is a heap of pointless game apps that only look nice but hardly challenge or develop anything, and I personally can't endorse that. There are a few individual, worthwhile game and learning gems, though. Amazon gives the age limit as 3 years and I think that this age is simply far too early to confront children with technical devices of this kind. Even at 10 years old I still limit my child's play time, but that is my personal opinion.\n\nThe comparisons show where it falls short. In the test by “heise online bestenlisten”, switching between apps is sluggish and even Roblox stutters, and the testers point to the faster Fire HD 10. Compared with Android tablets, the Google Play Store is missing, and with it YouTube Kids, which for the father at “Tech Pro Journal” is the reason his son prefers to reach for another device. What weighs more heavily for me is a comparison on the blog “n00py”. Through the privacy link of two approved Kids+ apps, the author reached Google search and adult content within five minutes, without the parent dashboard recording anything, whereas on an iPhone the filters also worked in such embedded browsers. Amazon then removed only the reported apps. For kindergarten-age children, the first time with the tablet is therefore better spent close to you.\n\nThe display has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The tester from “TV Movie”, who tried it with his four-year-old son under the duvet, found the picture good enough and pleasantly not too glaring. Outdoors it looks different. At around 400 candela, according to the measurement in the tech test, it is barely readable in the sun. The speakers are quiet, and in the forum a mother recommends headphones for the car, because on the motorway the child otherwise understands little. “Inside Graz” mentions a volume limit in the kids profile, but no source gives a level. The cameras deliver mediocre pictures everywhere, far too dark ones against the light, and at our home we find the display and camera equally mediocre.\n\nAll sources praise the case. In the vlog, the tablet is thrown twice from different heights and keeps working afterwards, and the tech test highlights the handle, which locks into place in several positions and doesn't pinch fingers. It is not waterproof. If it breaks, Amazon replaces it free of charge for two years according to the manufacturer. How often depends on goodwill, in the testers' assessment. The data sheet promises up to 13 hours of mixed use, and what was measured was 9 hours and 12 minutes of video streaming at 40 percent brightness, less with games. On standby, the British father's device lost only two thirds of its charge in two weeks. With the 5-watt power adapter, charging takes just under five hours, with 15 watts about two and a half.\n\nLittle works without Amazon. Setup requires an Amazon account, without which it's over according to the test from Graz, and the same test criticizes a cluttered home screen on which parents have to deselect content item by item. The Kids+ subscription is included for one year, after that it costs a monthly fee, and according to the vlog it is precisely the content that makes up the value. Anyone who retrofits the Play Store loses Amazon's warranty, according to the tech test. Only a specialist service may replace the battery. How long updates will come, where the device is built and what happens if Amazon discontinues the service, none of my sources say. They also range from the 2017 model to the 2024 generation, so the details on processor and camera differ slightly.