Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition review

Despite being £50 more expensive than the standard Amazon Fire HD 10, the Kids Edition ends up being better value. That £50 buys you a lot: the chunky bumper helps protect it and hides some of the design’s shortcomings, and the two-year replacement offer gives you peace of mind. But mostly, you’re paying for the Kids Unlimited software, and this is excellent. With plenty of content on offer for the kids, plus impressive control for the parents, it becomes a tablet you can truly trust. There’s no danger of youngsters seeing ads or unsuitable videos and so long as you set it up accordingly, no risk of them spending 10hrs going slowly square-eyed. The price is on the high side, but it’s the best kids tablet we’ve used and is therefore highly recommended.

Great parental controls; Easy to handle and use; Free year of Amazon Fire for Kids unlimited;

Screen could be better for price; Camera isn't great;

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition review

The Fire HD 10 is a decent, if unspectacular, tablet. It’s good value as a Kids Edition, but you can get the same warranty, content and bumper case with the 7- and 8-inch versions which are quite a bit cheaper. Parental controls are excellent, but it’s a shame they don’t all carry over to the full FireOS interface, which is better suited to older kids.

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition Review

Amazon's "Kids Edition" tablets are the casseroles of consumer electronics: leftovers dressed up to become a new meal. But that's not always a bad thing. In Amazon's case, the company has made no-brainer tablets for kids to throw around without their parents worrying about them. The Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids' Edition is just a bundle of the Fire HD 10 tablet; a year of "FreeTime Unlimited" software; a two-year, no-questions-asked replacement warranty; and a blue, pink, or yellow rubbery case. That's $226 worth of goods when purchased separately, here for $199.99. You can read our Fire HD 10 review for the basics of this tablet's design and how it performs. Like other Fire tablets, it runs a fork of Android where Google services have been replaced by Amazon's, including the app store. The compelling idea is that the accessories reinforce each other. The HD 10 tablet isn't particularly rugged, and it isn't waterproof. But the big, rubbery case included here makes it drop-resistant, ...

The Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition tablet is a very simple way to give children lots of guaranteed-safe apps and videos, but it won't easily grow with them.

Less expensive as a bundle than as individual components; FreeTime has a large library of guaranteed kid-safe content

Awkward for using non-Amazon content; Smaller, less expensive Fire HD 8 has many of the same advantages; Not waterproof

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition (2018) Review

Amazon's "Kids Edition" tablets are the casseroles of consumer electronics: leftovers dressed up to become a new meal. But that's not always a bad thing. In Amazon's case, the company has made no-brainer tablets for kids to throw around without their parents worrying about them. The Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids' Edition is just a bundle of the Fire HD 10 tablet; a year of "FreeTime Unlimited" software; a two-year, no-questions-asked replacement warranty; and a blue, pink, or yellow rubbery case. That's $226 worth of goods when purchased separately, here for $199.99. You can read our Fire HD 10 review for the basics of this tablet's design and how it performs. Like other Fire tablets, it runs a fork of Android where Google services have been replaced by Amazon's, including the app store. The compelling idea is that the accessories reinforce each other. The HD 10 tablet isn't particularly rugged, and it isn't waterproof. But the big, rubbery case included here makes it drop-resistant, ...

The Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition tablet is a very simple way to give children lots of guaranteed-safe apps and videos, but it won't easily grow with them.

Less expensive as a bundle than as individual components; FreeTime has a large library of guaranteed kid-safe content

Awkward for using non-Amazon content; Smaller, less expensive Fire HD 8 has many of the same advantages; Not waterproof

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Edition review review

Great parental controls; Easy to handle and use; Free year of Amazon Fire for Kids unlimited;

Screen could be better for price; Camera isn’t great;