Nabi has a pair of monstrous child slates out

Nov 7, 2014 14:47 GMT  ·  By

Giving tablets to children from a young age is a practice that has been criticized by scientists and educators alike.

Children who spend a lot of time on these colored-screen devices tend to argue and are prone to become more socially reclusive, preferring the company of a tablet to that of other children.

Super-sized tablets anyone?

But device manufacturer Nabi doesn’t exactly see things the same way. The company has launched two huge tablets sporting 20-inch and 24-inch displays that come with an underlying plot twist.

Nabi believes that the bigger screen will make room for children to play together on a tablet, provided they have some multiplayer games to take advantage of, but the company has that checked.

The Big Tab HD family offers 1600 x 900 pixel resolution on the 20-inch model and 1920 x 1080 on the 24-incher, which is quite insufficient on such large displays.

As for computing power, it comes from an NVIDIA Tegra 4 CPU fitted with 2GB of RAM. The devices also take advantage of a rear-facing camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC. The operating system on board is Android 4.4 KitKat with Nabi’s own Blue Morpho kiddie-friendly UI plastered on top.

Nabi offers a bunch of pre-installed games with the tablets, including checkers, chess, tic tac toe and hangman. Kids and parents will also be given access to Show Time, which stores movies and books from Disney, Dreamworks and more. You’ll also be able to buy and download some great drawing apps.

Since the tablets are quite big and chunky, smaller kids won’t probably be able to pick them up on their own, but Nabi has added a metal frame that can be used as a handle plus a stand in order to provide a system for the tablet to stand.

The tablets can be turned into normal Android slates

Parents could even consider converting one of the big-screened tablets into dedicated children TVs, as they are obviously big enough to handle this function.

When the kids have to sleep, parents can take over the tablet and bypass the kiddie-friendly interface in order to use the slates as regular Android devices. You get access to Google Play, so in theory you should be able to install whatever apps you want and need.

Taking the whole helping kids socialize part out of the equation, the Big Tab HD duo might actually help maintain overall stability in the family, giving mom, dad and their children something to do together on the tablet.

But given how big and chunky (the 24-inch one has 13 lbs) the tablets actually are, it’s unlikely families will want to spend money on these monster devices. Not to mention the smallest one costs $449 / €363.

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A family playing on Nabi's super-sized tablet
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