Best children’s tablet

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In the market for a tablet for my son, he’s nearly 2 and needs entertaining on car journeys and something to stop him taking our phones

Looked at the amazon fire kids but seems like an expensive normal fire with add subscriptions.

Need Cbeebies/iPlayer and simple games really, not sure what else is good for keeping them entertained.

Wondered if anyone had any other recommendations or personal experience??
 
We’ve had the same problem. Tried quite a few, amazon fire for kids was really slow and half the apps couldn’t play. Was £1.99 per month for the subscription and was good because the additional SD card could download all his programmes to watch offline in the car. But the loading time on these were so long he’d lost interest before they came on. Seems there’s no memory left after the OS is installed if you get the 8gb version. And takes forever to load up the 64gb SD cards contents. Sold that on and got the kindle fire 7. Pretty much the same problems. Then some Samsung tablet was a bit hard for him to use.
In the end we opted for a second hand iPad and it’s been great he knows how to work it, everything loads as it should and all the apps work fine, we put Netflix on it and download stuff for him for the car. Only downfall Is no additional memory and highly breakable but 6 months in and doing ok so far.
 
My 2 year old has a Amazon Fire HD 8. You have to manually add play store as amazon store is rubbish.

I installed Nova launcher on it and not looked back. Amazon stock theme is rubbish. Cleared up as much bloatware as I could and installed YouTube Kids.

He knows how to use the device and is happy with it.
 
Another vote here for iPads. My children went from Minis to the full size version. If you put them in a big, padded case, they're quite robust.

My experience of cheap Android tablets (I've tried the Fire 8 and 10 and used to have a Nabi years ago) is that they're really awful to use. Slow, buggy and not worth bothering about. With iOS, your son will have a consistent experience if you ever change to another apple tablet, which won't necessarily be the case moving between Android tablets.
 
The iPad mini has just been updated and is a very good tablet for the money. It will last many years to come and would also be suitable for you to use too.
 
our 4 year old is more than happy with her fire HD 8 Kids tablet. would it be a tad slow if i was using it? yea probably but she's 4 so doesn't really notice. came with a years sub to amazons kid stuff which she loves and a 2 years no quibble warranty. it's had bounces and bumps, been thrown round, dropped, stood on, had yoghurt, gravy and untold other substances spilled on it and it's still going strong.
 
As others have said the current ipad and ipad mini are probably the best bet.

My son has an android tablet, an LG and I was happy with the purchase at the time but it's a very old model. He's 8 and has had it for a good 4 years or more. It was great because we added an SD card to it for films and shows but it is starting to show its age and the android tablet market seems to have died really.

If I were buying him a replacement I would buy an ipad, we have network storage at home so he can stream his films and tv shows and when we are away I would use our Kingston MobileLite device which with a large SD card acts as a mini wifi storage hotspot so he can stream from it, this helps with Apple's shockingly small amount of onboard storage (unless you want to fork out ££££££££££££ for the larger capacity ipads).

This is the current model of the Kingston device we have:

https://www.kingston.com/en/wireless/wireless_readers/mlwg3
 
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