Shopping for your child’s first tablet is rapidly becoming tricky. There’s a growing number of options out there and it’s not easy to choose between them; but if you want to keep those little, grubby mitts off your expensive and quite breakable iPad, you better choose one soon.The Android-based Dragon Touch Y88X Kids Tablet ($35.99) is the latest entrant from one of the biggest names in educational toys, and it has plenty to recommend it. Designed for kids, it comes pre-loaded with fantastic age-appropriate software and comprehensive parental controls.
My three year-old daughter and six year-old son just spent a week playing with it, and gave a resounding thumbs up when asked, but it wasn’t all plain-sailing. So, should the Dragon Touch Y88X Kids Tablet onto your shopping list? Let’s take a closer look.
BUILT TO WITHSTAND KIDS
It’s not unusual for kids, especially young kids, to destroy electronics, so a dedicated tablet for children really has to be tough. The Dragon Touch Y88X Plus Kids Tablet doesn’t disappoint. Encased in a chunky bright green\red\blue\pink rubber bumper, the Dragon Touch Y88X Plus Kids Tablet is well-protected out of the box. The bumper is removable when older kids don’t need it, and the exposed tablet underneath has rounded edges and huge bezels.
The tablet has a 7-inch screen, but overall it’s a little bigger than regular models with similar sized displays. The back is perforated white plastic, and that’s where you’ll find the main camera and the speaker. All the controls and ports are found up top if you’re holding the tablet in landscape view. There are easy to press power and volume controls, a recessed micro-USB port for charging, and a headphone jack. There’s also a stylus that’s attached to the body by a cord, which slots neatly away in the bottom left corner when it’s not needed.
My six year-old son is used to tablets and took to the Dragon Touch Y88X Plus quickly. My three year-old daughter hasn’t had as much time with them, but she clearly found it much easier to hold than our old Nexus 7 or the iPad Air. She also loved the stylus and used it at every opportunity, even gripping onto it tightly when it came time to put the tablet away for the day, in the hope of holding onto it for a while longer.
SOFTWARE DESIGNED FOR KIDS
The Dragon Touch Y88X Plus Kids Tablet runs Android 4.4 KitKat under the specially-designed interface. You get occasional glimpses of it, when you swipe down from the top and see the standard notification shade for example, but otherwise it’s heavily modified.
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