Normally I would not consider a locked down Amazon tablet, but we have a specific set of circumstances involving long plane journeys and very long drives with kids this summer.
We were going to get in-car DVD players to entertain them, but now we’re thinking of tablets for extra versatility and they haven’t watched a DVD in about 2 years anyway. We need a second tablet (we already have a Hudl 1) and I think that purely for kids the Kindle Fire might be an option. It’s cheap, and seems to perform well. Considering the normal adult one rather than the kid specific one.
Offline video is a key feature we need.
1) It looks like the games and kids content in the Amazon store are a bit better than much of the dross on the Play store that only exists to try and trick your kids into spending a fortune on in-app purchases. Is that the case?
2) The Fire for Kids Unlimited looks like a good deal – this is more content over what’s in the Amazon store, yes?
3) We are interested in little kids books, they seem to have interactive ones on the Fire which would be great – these are not available on normal Kindle app for Android, are they?
4) I don’t want to use Google Play to download video as you have to pay for everything (unless there’s a subscription for it?). We already use Amazon Prime Instant Video a lot, and it looks like you can watch those offline, and you can with iPlayer too which should be enough. Lack of Netflix is a shame.
5) Does anyone know if your amazon prime subscription gives you the same content as you get at home when you are abroad? Or do you get that country’s content? I know that the latter is the case with Netflix.
6) The kid specific tablet: I’m not overly worried about parental controls really, or the insurance you get. But can you get the ‘Fire for Kids’ app on a regular fire? Is it the same?
7) Is there offline video content with Fire for Kids app?