![]() However, it did allow me to find YouTube and watch some pretty unsafe material on there, so you might either want to block that off or not leave the browsing entirely unsupervised. It uses Bing as the main search engine, with Safesearch permanently turned on, while the filtering does a solid job of preventing access to sites you’d rather they didn’t find. On the second, you get something closer to the regular Fire OS Home screen, with standard icons for apps and access to Audible and Amazon Music (if you have subscriptions), along with a customised version of the Fire OS browser, Silk.Īs a parent, you can control which sites your kids can visit through the browser-based dashboard, adding those you’re happy for them to use, and blacklisting those you’re not. On the first, you get a slightly rejigged version of the normal Kids UI, with rows of big, square buttons that take you straight to apps, games, books, music stations and video content from the Kids+ service, though – depending on your child’s age and profile – skewed to older pre-teen kids. The Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Pro runs Amazon’s Fire OS software overlaid with a revision of its Kids UI. Parental dashboard with strong content controls. ![]() Revised Kids interface with more scope to explore.Just be aware that the gloss surface is quite reflective, which makes the tablet near unusable in bright sunlight or where light streams in through a window. It’s nowhere near as bad as the low-res, low-brightness screens of many budget tablets, including Amazon’s ultra-cheap and cheerful Fire 7. It’s actually fine for watching kids TV shows, cartoons and movies, and I’ve had it running Netflix on my adult profile while doing the washing up. Images, games and videos just don’t have the punch they have on other tablets. More seriously, while it’s relatively bright – I measured it at 477 nits – it also suffers from a lack of contrast and colour depth. It has a low-ish 1280 x 800 resolution, which means you can see the pixel structure if you look up close, which means you lose a little clarity and detail. If you’re used to the screens of iPads and higher-end Android tablets, then the screen on the Fire HD 8 Pro Kids might come as a bit of a shock. Too reflective for use in bright sunlight. ![]()
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