The nabi DreamTab and the Samsung Galaxy Tab E Lite Kids are both tablets designed for children, so how do they match up? The first difference is in the size of the two tablets. The DreamTab is an 8″ tablet whilst the Samsung is a more common 7″. The DreamTab has a screen resolution of 1920×1200 pixels compared to the Samsung’s 1024×600 pixels. Both tablets come with a protective silicone bumper intended to reduce the chance of damage if the tablet is dropped. That of the DreamTab is only available in red whilst the Samsung’s case only comes in pale green.
Both tablets are Android tablets and both run Android 4.4. KitKat. The nabi tablet does, however, come with the Blue Morpho OS overlay, a suite of customisations to the Android OS that add a host of parent-approved and child-friendly extras. Both tablets have access to Google Play and content from there.
The DreamTab comes with 16 gigabytes (GB) of internal memory, double the 8 GB of the Galaxy tablet. Each tablet also has a memory card slot that can take memory cards of up to 32 GB. Both tablets have quad core processors and come with WiFi and Bluetooth. The DreamTab also comes with Near Field Communication, a short range, slow and secure method of wireless communication rarely seen in children’s tablets. The Samsung has a standard micro USB port whilst the nabi tablet comes with the custom nabi Connector, which requires a custom cable but also has HDMI functionality.
The DreamTab has two cameras, a front facing 2.0 megapixel (MP) camera and a rear facing 5.0 MP one. In contrast, the Samsung only has a single camera, a rear facing 2.0 MP one. Each tablet has a headphone jack and microphone but the DreamTab has stereo speakers in contrast to the single speaker of the Samsung.
Each tablet comes with parental controls provided by the relevant company. Those of the DreamTab come with educational content, and the Wings Learning System, extensive time controls and the ability to assign time to app groups and individual apps. Children can also be rewarded with nabi Coins for fulfilling such as chores and educational goals, a virtual currency that can be exchanged for such as games in nabi’s own curated store. The DreamTab also comes with nabi Konnect, a safe social media experience for children that parents can monitor. The parental controls on the Samsung do appear to be tied in with the subscription-based Samsung Kids.
Also included with the DreamTab is Dream Pro Studio, a suite of creative apps, and the Dream Pen, a digital stylus designed to be used with those apps.
The DreamTab is superior in pretty much every way to the Tab E Lite Kids. It has more memory, a better screen, more included contents, two cameras as opposed to one and better resolution on the cameras. The primary disadvantage of the DreamTab is the nabi Connector; the size may or may not be a problem depending on the user. Overall, the nabi DreamTab is a far superior tablet technically to the Samsung Galaxy Tab E Lite Kids.