Which tablet is best for a family?

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Dicky McElephant

Is the Kindle Fire the tablet that has the parental timers on it?

It has an app called Freetime that you can launch your kids into (requires a password to get out of it). You can then lock it down in a variety of ways. Control which apps they can access, what kind of websiites, which movies, which books, all that kind of stuff. Most importantly, you can disallow purchases on there, as Amazon has 1-click purchasing which allows them to buy stuff without a password. My oldest son bought like 50 bucks in books on accident one time without my knowledge. He now gets launched into freetime on his.

This is also useful so you can lock them out of everything but books if you want them to actually be reading on it for school or something like that (mine can read on his as much as he wants, but I limit how much he can freeplay).


I'm not sure that it has a timer on it, though.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by NewChief

It has an app called Freetime that you can launch your kids into (requires a password to get out of it). You can then lock it down in a variety of ways. Control which apps they can access, what kind of websiites, which movies, which books, all that kind of stuff. Most importantly, you can disallow purchases on there, as Amazon has 1-click purchasing which allows them to buy stuff without a password. My oldest son bought like 50 bucks in books on accident one time without my knowledge. He now gets launched into freetime on his.

This is also useful so you can lock them out of everything but books if you want them to actually be reading on it for school or something like that (mine can read on his as much as he wants, but I limit how much he can freeplay).


I'm not sure that it has a timer on it, though.

Do you have the newer Kindle? The HDX?

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Dicky McElephant

Do you have the newer Kindle? The HDX?

Nope. Just the HD. Bought it last year. It's actually getting replaced free of charge currently. There's a volume button sticking issue that makes it boot into safe mode constantly. It's a known problem, so I contacted them about it... and within about 5 minutes convinced them to give me a new one. That was without any purchased warranty or discussion of where I bought it (it was a gift from grandma to my son).