C idea 8 inch Portable Tablet, Android 13 Tablet PC with Blue Light Screen WiFi Dual Camera 32GB+64GB Expanded HD IPS Safety Eye Protection for Kids and Adults（Black）

The C idea 8 inch Portable Tablet offers a useful feature set which may be just the choice for a tablet for children, or for simple use at home. There are a few issues which I shall describe, but overall this tablet could satisfy many needs.

The tablet comes with a charger and charging cord, and a little leaflet of instructions. The instructions are not in the clearest English, and cover only some of the aspects of this tablet.

Turning it on, the tablet comes up in landscape mode, which it maintains until setup is complete. Answering the few questions at the beginning brings up a choice for a kid’s mode, which may be useful if giving this to a child.

Signing in with an existing Android account, it took about 30 minutes to complete the setup process. Most of the apps on the original device were copied over to the tablet, but not all of them. After completing the setup, one can set the screen to auto-adjust for portrait or landscape mode.

Checking out the tablet, itself, shows a nominal 8 inch diagonal screen, with resolution of 1280×800 pixels. Across the top is the USB-C connector for charging, a rubber closed socket for a micro-SD card, and a headphone jack. Along the side is a rocker switch for volume and a separate on/off button. Below the button is a pin hole for a reset button.

The camera resolution is stated as 5MP, and it appears to be so, with choices for 4×6, and square photos, and video at 4×6. There is a 2x digital zoom setting. The back mounted camera appears to be adequate. The front camera, specified as 2MP, has a yellow cast to the picture.

The reset button, said to be a factory reset in the leaflet, is actually a soft reset that does not destroy any settings. One can do a factory reset by going to the selection in the Settings menu.

So, I used this for some web surfing and light data keeping, and it worked well. The photo images are not high definition, but adequate for many routine uses. This may be an ideal first tablet for a child, where demands are not high for performance.

Slow loading-can’t keep a charge-don’t buy!!

I mainly chose this tablet because it has a Blue Light screen that protects my children’s eyes. When first setting up this tablet you have the option to create, or transfer a google account in order to use the optional kids geared option. If you want to bypass this step then you can set it up for a adult or teen with or without a google account. This tablet has a slot to upgrade the memory storage as well as a AUX port to connect headphones or directly to your car to listen to music if you have a AUX port. I like that it is Android 13 as I own other android devices like my phones. You can download app’s from the play store or just transfer them from one of your other devices or google accounts. The tablet is very light which makes me think that the parts inside are of somewhat lesser quality but hey for the price point it works and that’s all that matters to me. My kid’s enjoy watching YouTube, or playing games on this tablet. Lastly, the Blue Light feature is the most important feature and I definitely recommend if you have kids or even for yourself.

I ordered this tablet thinking I may get to use it more often than my iPad because it appears to be smaller and more portable, but so far I’ve been disappointed in its performance. It’s very slow to load and choppy when I try to navigate between different screens, even when I have no other apps running in the background. I’ve been spoiled having a flagship phone, but the difference when I try to find an app on my phone versus when I look for the app on the tablet, simply in the time it takes me to navigate through each interface, is like night and day.

Overall, this tablet is functional, but it will take some patience to use, which is why I believe it’s best-suited for a child as their first (budget) tablet, before their expectations of technology get too high.

I have a 7 year old and this tablet suits him. The price is affordable and it has the necessary apps for him to use. Setting it up when you first get it can take a while. Make sure you have WiFi ready also. The speed is a little slow, but that’s the only bad thing about it.

It’s $50 but it’s not good even for that haha unusable

We got this as a way for our 2 year old to occasionally watch TV. As far as that goes, it’s a little slow. This thing doesn’t seem to have much RAM to work with. But it does work. I can open YouTubeKids on it and my daughter can watch a show without problems. We pulled up a recipe online and were able to access internet easily with it. It’s just a little slow at getting those things compared to our very nice cellphones and laptops. Overall I think it’ll be the perfect occasional time-filler for our daughter, but I’d never want to count on it for something big and important.

Even at $50 this is a good value. Right now, it is 30% off. Wow, $35 for an Android tablet. Use it for Waze in your car if you have a wifi hotspot available. It isn’t powerful. It isn’t fast. It doesn’t have a lot of storage, but you can add a storage card to expand that. Keep a child occupied, or use it when you don’t want to risk your iPad. For the price, it is worth having as an extra.