? A Good Tablet?

[Gavmacp]

Friends are thinking of buying a Tablet for their children. We have an iPod but was wondering what people would recommend?

[bednobs]

how old are the children? How much do they want to spend?

[Gavmacp]

Children are 7 and 9. I was wondering whether spending the extra money on an iPad is worth the money?

[hc4361]

Nooooooooooooooooooo

Something around £100 like a Tesco Huddle will be fine

[hc4361]

Tesco Hudl, not huddle

[woofgang]

what will the kids be doing on it? I would also suggest that 2 kids sharing one is a recipe for war...either one each or an entirely different gift would be wise IMHO

[Mattk]

An Ipad for children of 7 and 9? You're not serious?

Agree that Hudl will be more than adequate.

[Gavmacp]

Why not?

[sherrardk]

My 9 year old loves his kindle fire and the 13 year old loves his Nexus. The younger ones use my old iPad but I wouldn't buy them an iPad (they are lovely but over-priced).

[Gavmacp]

I do tend to agree. I do not follow technology that closely and was wondering whether the new tablets were good.

[sherrardk]

Kindle fires are currently £99 at Amazon, loads cheaper than an iPad.

[Gavmacp]

Do kindle fires play games?

[sherrardk]

Yes, they are like all tablets. You can down load apps, go on the net, read books, go on YouTube (as far as I can see they do exactly what an iPad does).

[Gavmacp]

Thank you I will pass the suggestions along!

[woofgang]

My great nieces (8 and 10) have got ipads. Their parents can well afford it and they chose ipad over other tablets because they decided that the the control they could have over what the children did and looked at seemed to be the best. If I was going to buy a tablet (or laptop or netbook) for a child, then that would be my main concern.
The children are both careful with fragile things and understand that they need to take care of their possessions

[sherrardk]

You can set up parental controls on other tablets too. I have an iPad and love it but I really don't think they warrant the price (although I am not going to give mine up in a hurry).

[hc4361]

You can set very strict filters on android tablets, too.
You can do everything on an android that you can do on an iPad

[bednobs]

is the kindle fire android, or do amazon have their own OS?

[hc4361]

That's the problem with Kindles - they are android but reworked to Amazon's interface.
You can't borrow ebooks from a public library with a Kindle and I'm not sure if Kindles have full access to the Google Play apps.

[LazyGun]

I would go for the Hudl personally, at that price point. Kindle Fire is great for reading books, but it does have a proprietary OS that makes trying to download anything other than Kindle -approved apps a bit tricky.

[LazyGun]

And Kindles do not have full access to Google Play, based upon my experiences trying to download stuff from it to mine.