Hands on with the nabi Jr. Android tablet for toddlers [Video]

January 11, 2013

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Hands on with the nabi Jr. Android tablet for toddlers [Video] 3

Late last year Fuhu announced the nabi Jr. tablet for toddlers. This one is the little brother (or sister) to the nabi 2. It sports a 5-inch (800 x 480) display, a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, a rotating camera lens, 4GB/16GB of storage, matching stylus, microSD, and Fuhu's own UI built around Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It will be priced at $99 for the 4GB version and $129 for the 16GB version. I had a chance to play with it at CES, and I am not usually impressed with kids tablets, but Fuhu has done a really good job. The specs aren't high end, but again this if for your toddler. They don't need any more than this. I love the design of the protective case and that it's easily removable. We should see this one by the end of February, but for now, check out the hands on video after the break.

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Robert Nazarian Author

Robert lives in upstate New York where he was born and raised. Technology was always his passion. His first computer was a Radio Shack TRS80 Color that used a cassette tape to save programs, and his first laptop was a Toshiba T1200FB that sported a CGA greyscale screen and two 720kb floppy drives (no hardrive). From the early 90’s through late 2011, he only owned Motorola phones starting with the MircroTAC all the way through to the Droid X. He broke that streak when he bought the Galaxy Nexus. Now he's sporting a Galaxy Note 4, and absolutely loves it. He has a wonderful wife and a 6 year old son. In his free time he enjoys sports, movies, TV, working out, and trying to keep up with the rapid fast world of technology.

4 comments

Ashley Guttuso says:

July 23, 2013 at 10:21 PM

A fair warning to everyone out there considering buying the
nabi Jr:

We bought a nabi Jr from WalMart in May 2013 and our
three-year-old absolutely loved it. We couldn’t have been happier. We’d read
many good reviews about the fact that it was made to withstand drops, and Nora
was actually really careful with it. Then the inevitable happened: she dropped
it. Her screen cracked on a diagonal and only one side of it works.

I contacted nabi Cares, but it turns out they don’t. I’ve
been told there’s nothing they can do. There is no screen replacement program
for this product. There goes $100.

It was fun while it lasted, but we won’t be buying nabi
products in the future. The “Drop-Safe Bumper” was a big disappointment. We
cannot justify spending more money with a company that promises “The nabi Jr.
will handle those little bumps and drops without complaint and with its chunky
construction and drop safe bumper, it will make it home undamaged after show
and tell.”

I thought my daughter would learn great lessons with this
device, such as number recognition, phonics, and spelling. Instead, she’s
learned that sometimes a company cannot stand behind the product it makes.

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noah says:

May 8, 2013 at 4:00 PM

Nabi2 is better than nabi jr just letting you know

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Christine says:

February 8, 2013 at 8:38 PM

is it wifi capable like the Nabi 2 is

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Mystery Man says:

January 12, 2013 at 5:03 AM

thanks for the video

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