Tablet Comparison: Dragon Touch K8 Kids vs nabi DreamTab

The Dragon Touch K8 Kids and the nabi DreamTab are both 8″ tablets designed for children, so how do they compare? The K8 Kids has a screen resolution of 1280×800 pixels but the DreamTab’s screen has a greater resolution of 1920×1200 pixels. The DreamTab comes with a protective silicone bumper in nabi’s signature red whilst the K8 Kids comes with a two-tone case with integral stand and attached stylus.

Both tablets are Android tablets with the K8 Kids running 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box whilst the DreamTab runs the older 4.4 KitKat. However, the DreamTab also comes with nabi’s Blue Morpho OS overlay, a suite of customisations to the basic Android OS that add a lot of parent-approved and child-friendly features. Both tablets have access to Google Play and the content that is available from there.

Both tablets come with 16 gigabytes (GB) of internal memory and both also have a memory card slot that will take memory cards up to 32 GB in size. Both tablets have quad core processors, WiFi and Bluetooth, but the DreamTab also comes with Near Field Communication, a short range, slow and secure wireless communication method rarely seen in children’s tablets. The K8 Kids has a standard micro USB port whilst the DreamTab comes with nabi’s custom nabi Connector, which requires a custom cable but also has HDMI capability.

Both tablets have front and rear facing cameras and, in both cases, the front camera has 2.0 megapixel (MP) resolution and the rear 5.0 MP. Each has a headphone jack and a microphone. The K8 Kids has a single speaker whilst the DreamTab has stereo speakers.

Both tablets have parental controls. For the K8 Kids, these are provided by KIDOZ. For the DreamTab, the parental controls are integrated in the Blue Morpho OS overlay. Educational content is available on the K8 Kids through KIDOZ and on the DreamTab through the Wings Learning System. The DreamTab also has extensive time controls and nabi Konnect, a kid-safe social media experience for children that can be monitored by parents. The K8 Kids comes with a stylus but the that with the DreamTab is the nabi Dream Pen, a digital stylus that is designed to interact with the included Dream Pro Studio, a suite of creative apps.

The K8 Kids is in many ways inferior to the DreamTab. The tablets are the same size, have the same memory and the same resolution for cameras. One advantage the K8 Kids has is that it uses a standard cable rather than the custom one required by the DreamTab; another is that it uses a more recent version of Android. The DreamTab has superior screen resolution and the Blue Morpho OS overlay comes with far more included content than can be found on the K8 Kids. The Dragon Touch K8 Kids and the nabi DreamTab are similarly sized tablets with similar technical specifications but the DreamTab comes with integrated software that has more features.