ARNOVA ChildPad Pro Reviews

We can't help thinking that there's a huge gap in the market for a good tablet with a child-specific OS that's designed for kids yet easy for a parent to control. The Archos ChildPad, however, isn't that device - and Android isn't that OS (though you may be able to tinker to make Android child-friendly). Seeming a bit too heavy for the age group it's aimed at - primarily the under 10s - Android proves rather too fussy for younger age groups after easy and logical access. We would have liked to have seen a far more comprehensively modified version of Android, with extensive options for parental-controlled micro-customisation. With its effective - though possibly buggy - Mobile Parental Software (an app that's cheaper here than if downloaded from Google Play to, say, a Google Nexus 7) disallowing free access of the whole internet, the Archos ChildPad does fulfil its minimum brief. We're just not convinced that elsewhere there's anything particularly child-centric about the design and spec of this tablet. Taking away access to Google Play is a nonsense; instead the Mobile Parental Filter should be able to cope with its contents and filter appropriately, or ban access to pay-for apps.