Amazon Fire Kids Pro tablet: Price, specs, and availability

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In addition to the Fire Hard disk 10 tablet refresh unveiled today (April 27), Amazon too announced a new Burn tablet series aimed at preteens who are too old for the company's current kids tablets, but too immature for full-fledged devices.

The Amazon Fire Kids Pro tablets for kids aged half-dozen to twelve years old volition offering more than flexibility and liberty, while withal allowing parents to monitor and limit what their children can see. Hither's what we know so far most the Burn down Kids Pro, which starts at $99.

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Amazon Fire Kids Pro tablet: Price and availability

The Burn down Kids Pro tablet volition be offered in iii sizes: The 7-inch model costs $99, an 8-inch version is $139, and a 10-inch version is $199.

Regardless of the size, the Fire Kids Pro will come with a case in 1 of three colors: Sky Blue, Black, Doodle, and Intergalactic. The case, which is a bit thinner than the one that comes with Amazon's other kids' tablets, has an adjustable stand.

All Burn down Kids Pro tablets include a one year subscription to Amazon Kids+ ($2.99/month for Prime members) and a two-year replacement guarantee if the tablet gets broken.

Amazon Kids Pro — (Epitome credit: Amazon)

Amazon Fire Kids Pro: Content

The Fire Kids Pro tablet is substantially a slightly grown-upwards version of the Fire Hard disk Kids tablet. While the hardware is largely the aforementioned, the content available on the tablet is tailored for children from 6 to 12 years old.

This includes Amazon Kids+ content such as Teen Titans Go and Asphalt 8, books like Keeper of the Lost Cities and Chronicles of Narnia, PG and PG-13 videos, and educational content from National Geographic, Rabbids Coding and LEGO.

In addition, a digital shop lets children request apps — they can only be downloaded with a parent's approval — and a new web browser setting that provides more open up access to the Internet. This is so that kids tin apply the tablet to meliorate behave research for school projects. Parents can however block specific sites.

An updated home screen gives the tablet a more mature feel, and a new "For You" tab is customized based on recommended content.

Amazon Burn down Kids Pro vs. Amazon HD 10 Kids tablets

The Fire Kids Pro tablets are aimed at children from six to twelve, whereas the Fire Hard disk Kids tablets — the Burn down 7 Kids, the Fire Hard disk drive eight Kids, and the Burn HD ten Kids — are meant for children from three to seven years of age.

As such, the Kids Pro tablets have access to more mature content, voice and video calling and a web browser that lets your child see more of the Internet. At the aforementioned time, it too allows parents command over every attribute of the experience, such every bit how long their kid can utilise specific apps.

In add-on, the Kids Pro tablets let children to brand and receive voice and video calls over Wi-Fi with parent-approved contacts who have a Burn down Kids tablet, Repeat device or the Alexa app. Your child can also use Alexa's intercom feature to make announcements to all the Alexa-enabled devices in your home — which may or may not be a practiced thing.

Amazon Burn Kids Pro tablet: Outlook

The introduction of the Burn down Kids Pro tablet feels like Amazon is splitting some hairs. If this is all software-based, then why not simply let the electric current lineup of Fire Kids tablets change every bit your child grows?

Nevertheless, when information technology comes to child-focused tablets, Amazon's devices are pretty practiced — non for the hardware, necessarily, but for the content offered through Amazon Kids+. That's where the existent value comes in.

Michael A. Prospero is the deputy editor at Tom's Guide overseeing the home, smart home, drones, and fitness/wearables categories, too as all buying guides and other evergreen content. When he's not testing out the latest running watch, skiing or training for a marathon, he's probably using the latest sous vide machine or some other cooking gadget.