Searching for new titles is also a frustrating experience for those of us more used to octa-core smartphones, with each letter you type seeming to wander in, yawn and take a look around before settling down in its place. There’s a noticeable judder as the screen refreshes between pages, particularly if – as with many kids’ books – there are pictures on them. Still, given that most tablets and phones will only give you a day or so, a battery life of 1-4 weeks is a pretty easy thing to live with it never proved a problem in our house.Īs with all Kindles, performance is a little sluggish at times. My test subject routinely whacked the screen up to the full 24, left wireless on constantly and read for several hours’ a day – consequently, she got more like a week out of it. There’s no plug supplied with the unit, which is a little stingy, but you do get a USB cable.Īmazon claims it’ll last for four weeks on a full charge, but that’s based on “half an hour of reading a day, with wireless off and the light setting at 13”. Well, unless they dunk it in water – unlike the more expensive Paperwhite and Oasis models, the basic Kindle isn’t waterproof.īATTERY LIFE AND PERFORMANCE: SLOW AND STEADYĬharging is done via the microUSB port on the bottom and takes around 4hrs from flat. Children are the world’s foremost experts at breaking the supposedly unbreakable, but I suspect the Amazon Kindle for Kids would tax even the most creatively destructive of little scamps. That aside, it’s all good on the hardware front. Yeah, sucks to be me.įortunately, more colours are supposed to be on the way in January – in the US there are also ‘Rainbow Bird’ and ‘Space Station’ options, so hopefully they reach the UK too. If, like me, you have two daughters who both hate pink in large part because so much of the world still seems to think that it’s “for girls”, you either have to buy them both the same blue version – and face endless arguments about which one owns which – or buy one of each and upset one. But even if that is the case, it’s still a strangely restrictive offering. Maybe there’s no sexism intended here and Amazon just likes those stereotypical colours – I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt. Well built though the cover may be, it’s frustrating that as of the time of writing it’s only available in pink and blue. Outside, it’s finished with a soft-touch plastic that feels very durable. The hard plastic rear is moulded so that the Kindle fits snugly inside without any danger of it falling out and the inner front cover has a nice velvet feel, plus a magnet to turn the screen on and off when opened and closed. The Kindle unit itself is an impressively lightweight but reassuringly sturdy thing, with a chunky black frame – there’s no white version for kids – and just the one button on the bottom, for waking it.
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