Kindle Fire Safe for Children!

Kindle Fire has built in safe guards for your children to use this gadget. Unlike some tablets, this unit will help protect your children and ensure they do not wonder off to those doggy websites. 

Parent Controls

Protect your kids with easy-to-use Parental Controls. Simply add a password in the settings menu to restrict access to web browsing, content purchasing, or your Kindle Fire content libraries.

Ebooks for Fun and Education

Explore ebooks featuring beloved characters. Flip through picture books including Tiger Who Came to Tea and the Mr. Men and Little Miss series. Discover hundreds of ebook apps including Maisy, Duck and Goose, Elmo, Bing Nate, titles from Sandra Boynton (Moo, Baa, La La La!), and more.

Built to Last

Kindle Fire HD is designed to stand up to accidental bumps and scrapes. Our state-of-the art display is 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, so you can let your child play, without worry.

Beloved Kids' Movies and Shows

Amazon for Kids also includes the TV shows your children want to watch, with episodes from Bob the Builder, Thomas the Tank Engine and many more.

The Best Games for Kids

Featuring dozens of children's games like Drawing Pad, A Day at the Circus and The Cat In the Hat - Dr. Seuss, and popular early development games like Kids Learn to Read.

Enjoy your content on many devices

At Amazon, we make it easy for you to access your content on other devices and platforms. Apps and games that you buy for your Kindle Fire HD can be used on other Android devices. Kindle books can also be enjoyed on Amazon apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. Movies from LOVEFiLM can also be watched on your internet enabled TV, PS3, Xbox 360, laptop and iPad.

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Nintendo to revamp 3DS handheld with bigger screens

As from July 2012 Nintendo will start selling a version of its 3DS handheld gaming console with bigger screens.

The 3DS LL, which will be known as the XL outside Japan, will have displays that are almost twice as big as those on the current version. It will be priced at 18,900 yen (£150) in Japan and $199.99 (£128) in the US. No European prices have been given. The 3DS faces growing competition from smartphones, tablets and Sony's Playstation Vita handheld. However we feel that their is still a strong market for this product with children, who are not permitted to have a smartphone.

The gadget will go on sale in Japan and Europe from 28 July 2012, but will not reach the US until 19 August 2012.

Screen Sizes and Power

Screens on the 3DS LL will be 4.88in (124mm) and 4.18in (106mm) across as compared to 3.53in (90mm) and 3.02in (77mm) in the older model. The larger size of the gadget will also mean it has a longer battery life. For 3D games, the device should run for more than six hours between recharges. For 2D games it should last up to 10 hours. 

About 17 million 3DS devices have been sold since the device was released in 2011. In April 2012, Nintendo reported its first annual loss as sales of its Wii console and other gadgets started to slow. It has hopes that a revamped games console, the Wii U, will return it to profitability. Nintendo's shares have fallen 60% since the first 3DS launched in February 2011.

Asus Memo 370T

Nvidia and Asus teased a product that may change everything. At the Nvidia press conference at the CES 2012 show the companies flashed that a quad-core, Tegra 3-based 7-inchtablet would soon be released for only $250.

The tablet in question actually turned out to be the Asus Memo 370T. An upgraded version of the 7-inch stylus-supported Memo tablet Asus debuted at CES 2011.

While the previous version ran on Honeycomb and utilized a dual-core Qualcomm 8260-1.2Ghz CPU, the 370T will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich and houses a quad-core Tegra 3. No word yet on the actual speed of the processor, though. The previously announced stylus peripheral has been dropped for the device.

The 370T comes with 1GB of RAM and at least 16GB of storage. It also sports a 1,280x800-pixel IPS screen that delivered smoothly scrolling menus. Holding it in my hands, the tablet felt and looked very similar, dimensionally, to the Acer Iconia Tab A100. The 370T even hits the typical-for-a-7-inch-tablet weight of 0.88 pound, right on the nose.

Other details include a Micro-USB port, a microSD card reader, and a Micro-HDMI port. Lastly, the tablet will feature the same great 8-megapixel camera found on the Transformer Prime.

Last year, the $200 Kindle Fire had a similar effect, by offering users a quality tablet experience that didn't necessitate taking out a second mortgage.

The existence of the 370T now demonstrates that performance doesn't necessarily require a price premium. While this is likely to have a tangible effect on tablet prices, we may see an even greater effect on the portable gaming market.

Look for the Asus Memo 370T in the second quarter of 2012.