FIRE HD 8 KIDS SOFTWARE

One interesting way to search for content is through a top menu icon labeled 'characters.' There, kids can scroll through icons that run from generic, like Dinosaurs, to very specific brands, like Lego, Sesame Street, Marvel and Star Wars. One download like this per month covers the cost of the entire FreeTime Unlimited service once the included one-year subscription expires.

Dash is a big fan of these, and I've previously purchased a few for around $3 each. I was pleasantly surprised to find a large library of apps from Toca Boca, publisher of Toca Life, Toca Lab and other kid-friendly apps. Many are of the free or freemium variety (and no, kids can't make additional purchases on their own), but a good number are actually surprisingly premium. It's the tablet as impulse purchase, subsidized by the hope that you'll buy content - books, videos and apps - from Amazon and create a recurring revenue stream for the e-commerce giant. The current Amazon Fire line, last updated in 2017, comes in 7-inch, 8-inch and 10-inch versions, with on-sale prices dropping as low as $35 for the (very) basic Fire 7. You can read about the overall excellent Fire HD 8's hardware and performance in this review, and the also very good, but more limited Fire 7 here.

This review is specifically about the Kids Edition.

FIRE HD 8 KIDS SOFTWARE

Starting in 2014, however, a parallel series of Kids Edition Fire tablets took the same basic hardware and added accessories and software (and higher prices), in an attempt to make something useful for the younger set. But they're still general purpose machines, aimed at adults, and specifically at Amazon Prime members on top of that. Amazon's Fire line of tablets has a natural appeal for parents, with low prices, decent specs and access to a wide world of apps and features.

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