Nabi has been making portable tablets for kids for a while now, but if you were looking for something larger than about 7″, you've been out of luck–until now. The Big Tab HD is a new line of tablets from Fuhu that are both at least 20 inches. There are two models available: the $450 20-inch version with a HD+ display, and a $550 two foot version with a Full HD display. The purpose of these tablets is to educate and entertain children and give the opportunity for interactive learning, all while under the parental control settings native to the Android-based Blue Morpho interface.
In case you're planning on carting around this monster tablet for fun on the go, think again. The device weighs in at 13 lbs and is almost an inch thick. However, it gets worse. The enormous screen is meant to run off of a 1,650 mAh battery, which will leave you searching frantically for an outlet about as soon as you turn it on.
But it's not all bad news. The large screen allows for collaborative work amongst family members, 16 GB of storage will be enough to house all the apps from the curated App Zone, and an NVIDIA Tegra 4 chipset to power all of your fun.
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Source: Engadget
I just purchased the Big Tab HD 20″ version on sale for $339.99 +tax at COSTCO just before Christmas but we got it for a completely different reason than advertised. My wife has been wanting a digital calendar/family organizer that had a large screen that could be mounted to the wall. I was facing tearing a wall apart to flush mount install our all-in-one touch screen desktop but then we found this. Perfect solution. I’ll get a couple of sturdy but decorative hooks to hold up the frame by its very convenient carry handle on top and put a pass through low voltage electrical box in the wall to the closet behind that just happens to have a wall outlet to plug it in. I think this will workoout quite nicely. Now I just need to find an extra power supply so we can take it down and use it at the couch when desired without having to pull the original out of the wall.