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If your children are anything like mine, it wouldn’t matter if the most durable tablet for kids was made with military-grade materials and designed to withstand crashing to Earth from a low orbit.
Somehow, someway, they would still find a way to break it. Typically, this happens due to accidental drops, trips, spills, or one of the many other things that can occur in the day-to-day playtime of young children.
Honestly, this is the reason that it really doesn’t matter how durable a tablet is for children, but rather, how good the warranty that backs up that tablet is. For this reason, after looking at several different tablets for kids, I’ve decided that my top pick for the most durable tablet for children has to be the Kindle Fire Kids Edition tablet line.
Why Warranty Beats Durability
Like I mentioned in the introduction above, let’s face it, no matter how tough the tablet is, destruction is only a cup of milk away. Both of my sons, for example, are very careful with all their electronic toys.
They take care to make certain that their electronics are kept clean, picked up and out of the floor, and they always know exactly where chargers and other accessories are.
Whether it’s the PlayStation, tablets, or Game Boys, they always know exactly where everything is and if they need to do anything to maintain their care.
Sadly, my daughter is certainly not the same. She often leaves toys laying on the floor (the fate of her original Nabi 2 was that I stepped on it at 2AM,) refuses to put them away, and often misplaces chargers and other accessories.
The point is however, that all three of them have had broken electronics in the past.
It seems like no matter how much care is taken when handling children’s electronics; one accident is all it takes for their favorite toy to be completely broken and unusable.
And let’s face it, none of us want to have to go without the favorite toy any longer than necessary.
Why Amazon Makes The Most Durable Tablet For Kids
Let me give you a quick look at why I believe the Kindle Fire Kids’ Edition is the most durable kids’ tablet..
- It Has A 2 Year Worry Free Warranty – No other tablet manufacturer’s I’ve encountered do. While LeapFrog offered this for a limited time exclusively on their site, they stopped the promotion a couple of years ago.
- It Features A Durable Screen – I’ve dropped my regular Kindle Fire from the counter to the floor numerous times and it hasn’t broken yet. The kids’ edition is just a regular Fire with Freetime Unlimited and a 2 year total warranty.
- The Rubber Kids’ Case Helps – While it isn’t an Otterbox, the rubber bumper case is soft enough to bounce, but firm enough to be fairly tough.
Now, the good news is that Amazon has our backs when it comes to wanting to get the most bang for our buck with a tablet that’s going to stand up to the use and abuse that any child can put it through.
This isn’t because the durability of their Kindle Fire Kids Edition tablets is top-of-the-line in the durability department either.
They aren’t. Pure and simple.
Rather than try to make their tablets indestructible, Amazon backs them with a two-year no questions asked, full warranty. What does no questions asked mean?
Milk gets spilled on it… It gets replaced for free.
Dog buries it in the backyard… It gets replaced for free (so long as you find it)
It takes a trip down the steps and the screen gets shattered… It gets replaced for free.
Are you starting to see a pattern here? Just like the instances above, life happens.
The good news is, regardless of what happens to the tablets, Amazon will replace them an unlimited amount of times for two years.
This means that it doesn’t matter how durable the case is on the Kindle Fire Kids Edition, or how good your child may be with electronics. The bottom line is if the tablet gets broken, Amazon will replace it for you for free.
My Recent Experience With The Amazon Replacement Warranty
The reason I’m writing this post for everyone is that I recently had to deal with replacing a Kindle Fire Kids Edition myself. I purchased a brand-new 7th Generation Kindle Fire HD 8 Kids Edition to do a few videos and how to guides for all of you here at Kids Tablets With Wifi.
I wanted to be able to show everyone coming to the site exactly how to do things like set up Wi-Fi, install new games, and answer a few other questions that you may have. To do this, and review the new generation of Kindle tablets, I needed to have one of the new tablets.
Well, I ordered the tablet before it came out back in June and honestly, I hadn’t even taken it out of the box yet. Imagine my surprise when I did open it a couple of weeks ago and found that it wouldn’t work.
When I first took it out of the box, the very first thing that I did was try and turn it on. Unfortunately, it failed the power up, and my immediate response was to plug it in and charge it up overnight.
I did notice when I plugged it in that it didn’t have a little blue light indicating that it was charging like some of the other previous generation Kindles.
At first, I thought that maybe they had just gotten rid of the feature, but as I found out the next morning, this certainly wasn’t the case. This tablet was broken on delivery.
Worst of all, I was well out of my window to get a replacement sent from Amazon by normal means.
So, I picked up the phone and called Kindle support. Thankfully, they told me not to worry about it at all. Since it is a Kindle Fire Kids Edition, it qualifies for unlimited replacements for two years under their warranty.
By the end of a 15-minute phone call, I had a shipping label printed, and the tablet already in the box going back to Amazon. Five days later I had a brand-new Kindle Fire HD 8 Kids Edition delivered to my home.
While I’ve always been a big advocate for the fact that Amazon would replace their kids’ edition tablets as many times as necessary for two years, I’ve always been a little leery about how the entire process works.
You know how it goes, if something sounds too good to be true, it generally is. Well, I’m very happy to say that this certainly is not the case when it comes to getting the kids edition tablets replaced under Amazons 2 year worry free warranty.
Final Thoughts
Regardless of how rough your child may be with their toys, accidents do happen from time to time. No matter what you try to do to prevent it, a children’s tablet is going to get a nick, scratch, or other damages if it’s being played with.
After my dealings with Amazon and the replacement process for the Kindle Fire Kids Edition tablet line, I must say that I’m very impressed with exactly how well this durable little kids’ tablet truly is.
At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter which tablet is the most durable on the market, but instead what company stands behind their tablets the best.
If you’re ready to add an educational tablet to your child’s life, and you’re concerned about them breaking it, then I must strongly recommend that you check out the
Kindle fire kids’ edition tablet line.