Kindle fire or suitable tablet for kids?

[StGallsGAA]

Santa is on the lookout for a suitable tablet for my  8yr old young bucko.  kindle fire is getting good recommendations.  Ipad is obviously a consideration but don't fancy paying thru the noise for everything thereafter.  Can anyone recommend other options from experience??

[Maguire01]

You'd be mad in the head to pay out for an iPad for an 8 year old in my opinion.

Kindle Fire or Tesco Hudl would surely be a more sensible option for a child of that age. Or even the old version if the Nexus.

[BenDover]

try this: http://www.ebuyer.com/432600-sumvision-cyclone-voyager-tablet-pc-cycvoy101bt the mother in law got 1, nice bit of kit.

[illdecide]

Kindle Fire is a great we tablet...i got my daughter one for last Christmas and is still going strong, it's a good quality and robust pad compared to the rest...My we buck is on his 3rd from last christmas, i first got him a pad (couldn't tell you the make) and it calfed after 4 weeks then i got a Nexus 7 for him with the refund and it lasted 2 months as the charging port was damaged and his replacment Nexus 7 is heading the same way (he's not allowed to charge it as i do it and i'm careful with it) but never had a minutes bother with the Kindle.

The Kindle restricts you a bit to Amazon which can be a bit of a pain but for music etc there are easy ways around that...