Today Amazon has unveiled 2 tablets aimed astatine kids, and they're unsurprisingly called the Amazon Kids Tablets. They are disposable successful 8.7" and 11" sizes, with 2 chiseled models, 1 made for ages 3+, the different for ages 6+. The 8.7-inch tablet has 64GB of retention and its artillery lasts for up to 14 hours of video playback, portion the 11" exemplary has "a beauteous 2.5K display" and 8GB of RAM.
Every mentation runs Android and ships with a kid-proof lawsuit and a twelvemonth of the Kids+ subscription, which features curated contented from Disney, Nickelodeon, Lego, and Sesame Street, positive "parent-managed entree to Google Play", according to the authoritative property release. After that escaped year, Kids+ costs $7.99 per period if you're a Prime member, oregon $8.99 per period if you're not.
The tablets travel pre-installed with the Amazon Kids Parent Dashboard, which gives parents power implicit surface time, contented filters, and enactment monitoring, some connected the tablet itself and besides from your different devices since it's disposable arsenic an app you tin download for iOS and Android.
The tablet intended for younger kids gets a brushed bumper portion the 1 for older kids has a slim hard case. The cases person "designs and characters kids love, from Paw Patrol and Barbie to SpongeBob SquarePants". The contented and experiences are tailored to the property of the child, and "as a child's interests displacement - from Bluey to Harry Potter, from coloring apps to homework tools - the acquisition evolves with them".
There's besides an AI-powered "creative experience" called Storybuilder connected board, which lets kids "use their dependable to imagination up characters, crippled twists, and full worlds - past ticker their ideas crook into existent representation books and comic books they tin stock with their parents". This diagnostic is purpose-built for kids, with "guardrails that support the acquisition age-appropriate and springiness parents assurance that their children are exploring safely", Amazon says.
The Amazon Kids Tablets are available for pre-order now and volition vessel connected October 14 successful the US, Mexico, Canada, and Japan. They volition onshore successful the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain connected October 19. The 8-inch exemplary starts astatine $229.99 and the 11-inch exemplary starts astatine $329.99.
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