It would make sense to buy them more of these rather than £300+ iPads, that's for sure.

I've bought one. couldn't care less about the warranty period, the kids will smash it to bits soon enough anyway.

The fire kids gives 2 years warranty for anything, even if they can trash it. Also comes with a kid proof case, ours has been dropped down stairs and everything.

Worth mentioning 8gb in title ?

Has been on here many times before, but over one month since last time, so I guess okay to post again.

Got 2 for the kids(aged 3 & 6) for Christmas and both screens are broken as they keep dropping it way too often.... just contemplating whether to buy again or just forget it

how easy is it to root a fire tablet?

Thank you OP, got one for myself last time but have been waiting for price to drop again to get one for youngest son's birthday.

i might be in the minority but i did think a guarantee covered broken screen. however JL electronics customer services dept soon put me right on this. i did get them to replace with a new one but that is another story !

I've bought one. couldn't care less about the warranty period, the kids will smash it to bits soon enough anyway.

You can't buy jl added care on this tablet. I tried in store and doesn't meet the added care criteria. They said Amazon will replace if any problems

That's the fantastic JL 2 year warranty right there! :smiley:

8gig a crime to putting into any media device these days!

I second this... bought ours from Very for £54 a few weeks back and have no worries about 1, 3 and 5 year olds breaking it!

yes it can providing you dont update to the latest firmware..
https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/development/amazon-fire-5th-gen-supertool-root-t3272695
follow the guides and you will have an adroid tablet rooted with nova launcher installed in about 10 minutes

It can be easily expanded with a micro sd card

Is it just ours, or is this 'new' 7" tablet really slow? Bought it during christmas sale and it's VERY sluggish... I also bought 2nd hand previous generation fire tablet last year, which in fairness runs much older version of Android, and it's actually much more responsive.. The newer one has a SD card in, do you think a corrupted card (see @chrisnoon74's reply) could cause this?

Put a rubber case on it but honestly I didn't even realise when it came off until I saw it broken on the dinning table Monday morning

Good price, heat added.
Personally I went for Hudl, unsupported and old now, however it's got better specs and can be had second hand or reconditioned (I haven't bothered, but it can be rooted as well)...

Didn't bother rooting mine. Just stuck on Netflix, added the Google Play store, Google Play Music, Bt sport, Sky Plus, Sky Go, Plex as well as the Maxthon Browser. I picked up a £20 class 10 Micro SD card from amazon to go with it (64Gb) so I can stick on 1,000's of songs, entire series of tv shows, a dozen films and still not worry about how much room I've got left on there. Perfect for taking into work with me on my lunch break and not worry about getting knocked around, pinched etc.

I've looked through lots of reviews and specifications but I only find contradictions so if anyone can answer me this, does this do screen mirroring? If it does is it through an app or directly through the device as the Samsung tabs do? Heat added for good price.

Wrong.

They are absolutely infuriatingly slow though, I wanted to throw mine every time I tried to use it. Thankfully some absolute mad-man bought mine for what I paid for it from me on eBay.

Do these run plex and iplayer ok?

Does anyone know what kind of texture the other colours are? I know that the black is a matt finish, but from what I can tell, the other colours seem to be more of a glossy finish. Is this true in real life?

Can the kids mode be turned off and used normally like the samsung one?

Yeah, it's pin controlled.

Thank you.

Does it have HDMI output fo TV please?

Can I stick a data sim card in this?

Wrong-ish . . . . . .Since version 5.3.2 you have not been able to root these. It's currently on 5.3.3.0 and they auto update (it can't be stopped on this version of the Fire tablet). I bought mine 2 weeks ago from JL and it came with 5.3.2.1 on it. I'd expect the same or later from Amazon direct.
So if rooting is important to you it's a bit of a lottery with slimmer chance of success with every passing day.

However, as others have mentioned, you can easily install Google services and the Play store on it. Depends what you want out of rooting it really.

Can you side load apps without rooting?

Cheers. Ordered. Heated.

Dinning?

Don't bother getting Amazon's kids edition, just buy the official Amazon kids case and fire tablet on their own. Much cheaper, and the official case is really great, my kids have dropped it down the stairs, out doors loads, etc for the last two years. Get a cheap screen protector too!

Confused as to what case to get for this. Seen an origami one on ebay but it says HD 7". Would that fit this? Or is it one for a 5th Gen? Or can someone recommend a decent tough case for this that will close it down when the cover shuts and will survive in my work bag being chucked about a bit. Thanks in advance.

so after reading this can google play play still be installed ?

Does it fit in a PS4?

How is the battery life?

Installing Google Play Store on these has nothing to do with Amazon Underground at all, you can install Google Play just fine. :smiley:

Ideal for Kodi, probably

Anyone know if I can download netflix programmes on the Kindle app or is this feature only for iOS and Android?

Amazon price matching now, great timing! Been looking for a cheap decent android size screen to fly my phantom drone :smile: Thanks op

Thank you, just purchased to keep our 1 year old daughter entertained with peppa pig

You sure about Netflix offline? Only allowed on HD devices which this isn't (1025x600). I will be happy to be corrected as I have one and this doesn't work. Apart from that, great device for the cost, bought 2 last year at this price.

Does anyone know where the best price for the kids package 1 is. At the moment on Amazon is 99.99 for 16gb is it worth getting or better to get this at 44.99 for 16gb and buy a case etc? Thanks

Thanks

Sure. Just install the official Amazon store release not the Google Play store version. I found that the Google Play store one wasn't optimised enough and the downloads stuttered, where as the official Amazon one works fine.

Here you go, tiny Demo for you..
Netflix's download demo on Kindle

Is it worth spending the extra tenner and getting the 16GB version, or just putting the money towards a MicroSD card instead?

what is the battery life like on these - would be a 8yr old playing a few games and watching prime kids on it, or Sky Kids if can be installed - currently has the Acer Iconia One 7 Inch 16GB Tablet. and that battery is shocking lasts an hour at most and only had it 6 months - not sure if can be returned though - any thoughts on that as well - bought it from Argos

Curious, as it's the Amazon Store version I have. Happy to uninstall and try again if it'll get this working!

Those who have them, do you have the official kids rubber case for £19.99 or is there a good cheaper alternative that you have used? Thanks

Annoyingly I got the Hot uk deals email and purchased this tablet then realised its the same place in loads of retailers some of which give free delivery and also cashback!

I cancelled my order with John Lewis and ordered with others. Let this be a lesson to others to look into the prices of the "deals"
on this site before you order!

Voted COLD!

Maybe go into the Amazon App Store and check you have an updated version of the app. I gave my son my iPad and took his kindle off his hands, and I know he had downloads available for months on it before I had it off him.

I have the blue. Also a matt texture

Can I download iPlayer programmes onto this?

cheers for info

Mine turned up with the language as German and running 5.0.3.0. So rooted it anyway. What is the best rom to flash onto this to help the battery life?

Thanks for that Smakos.

I'm running nexus fire

https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/orig-development/rom-fire-nexus-rom-lmy49f-t3300714

Battery life seems really good as is overall performance of the tablet

If you root to install a different rom, do banking apps and banking websites still work?

I'm not sure as I don't use banking apps but you could use Magisk to mask the root:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk

It works with apps and games that check for root access.

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