14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung doesn't miss a chance to offer a product if it sees there’s a niche for it. Just in recent times, the Korean tech giant unveiled a health-centric platform entitled Simband, launched its own music-streaming mobile app called Milk Music, and managed to elbow its way into the video-streaming space with the introduction of Project Glued in Singapore and Philippines.
Another day, another new service announced by Samsung. The Korean tech giant has just introduced a subscription service for kids aged three to seven, who have a tablet at their disposal.
The new children content service is actually a mobile app that goes by the name of Samsung KidsTime. Parents who want to offer something new and exciting to their tablet-grabbing children can download the application from the Google Play store right now, says TheNextWeb. The same app will be available from Samsung Apps, starting June 14.
The app has been optimized to work with Samsung tablets, including the Galaxy Tab 3 lineup and Sammy’s newer 4 series. The Galaxy Note range will be added in the third quarter of the year.
For the time being, Samsung is officially launching KidsTime in Singapore and in Southeast Asia. A global launch should not be expected to happen soon, however. So it appears this endeavor will be a limited one, geographically speaking, in the vein of Project Glued.
So by now you’re probably wondering what Samsung will be offering with this new app. Well parents and children downloading the app onto their tablet will have access to a range of entertainment apps and e-books that will get refreshed each month.
On top of that, parents will have access to a monitoring dashboard of sorts, which lets them see which apps their children are using most of the time. This time, mom and dad can keep tabs on the little ones’ activities.
Samsung also said there would be no “in-app purchasing” or advertising present within the service, so parents can be at ease, their kids won’t go spending ridiculous amounts of cash while they use the service.
On top of that, Samsung will provide the “App Lock” feature which prevents children logging-out of KidsTime without a passcode.
Samsung will offer a free version of KidsTime and a paid one. The free one bundles 10 titles, but that’s not enough for your children, you can upgrade by paying a monthly subscription of $4.99 which will give you access to 30 e-books and game apps.
In the near future, Samsung will extend the offer to 50 apps.