Kindle Fire/ Adding Credit

[Smowball]

I want to buy son a Kindle Fire but dont want to link it to my own bank card for purchases, for obvious reasons! So what are the options?

Can I buy one of those Visa cards you can top up with a set amount and then give that as a present to use for apps etc or can you not link those type of cards to online purchases??

[dotty.]

i've not found it limited in any way at all, excellent download speed for everything we tried today, very impressed,

[hc4361]

The Google Nexus 7 is £159 16GB and has a better screen that the iPad Mini and the Kindle Fire.

[Smowball]

Argos are doing Kindle Fire 8gb for £99 and 16gb for £159 at the min.

Ohhhh Im confused to what to get!!

[Buenchico]

You're asking a lot of questions, Smowball! ;-)

Amazon Gift Certificate details:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200272630

Or buy Amazon Gift Cards:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/gc

Kobo prices and specs (to keep Dotty happy):
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/KoboeReaders.aspx

Kindle v Kobo:
http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-kindle-or-whsmith-kobo-ereader-touch-4010024630/
or, more simply:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/team-blog/2012/03/06/kindle-vs-kobo-battle-of-the-e-readers/

[daffy654]

The processor is better on the Nexus 7 too.

[hc4361]

The Kobo carries recommendations (adverts), doesn't it, dotty?

"Every time you read, listen, or watch, Kobo Arc learns what you like and delivers more for you to love. Stop searching, start discovering!"

That would drive me mad

[Smowball]

Sorry Buenchico : (

There is just so much choice and hard to know what to get.

[hc4361]

Web User Magazine ranks them in this order:

Google Nexus 7 £159 Gold Award
Apple iPad Mini £268 Silver
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 £199 Bronze
Amazon Kindle Fire £159 - very disappointing interface, hard to customise.

These prices are the recommended prices and could be cheaper.

[nungate]

Can I pose another question? I spotted a sort of mini e-book reader thingy somewhere that I thought I could get for best beloved but I can't remember where it was. I'm just looking for a basic reader that we can put books onto and nothing more complicated than that as best beloved is a total technophobe but I'm stumped as to what sort of gift to buy him this year I thought I could get him one of these and load it with books I know he'd like.

[dotty.]

just the opposite , the kindle fire has pop up ads and you have to pay and extra £10 to remove them at set up, the kobo has no such ads

[dotty.]

nungate that's the kobo mini, it was on offer at £49.99 for 3 weeks but is now back at £59.99
you can get a free snap back spare cover at the moment too
http://www.kobo.com/kobomini/

[dotty.]

the arc was only launched 3 weeks ago and so is not on many comparison sites yet

[dotty.]

jeez it's like being at work, i'm off lol

[nungate]

Thanks Dotty, I couldn't get Chris's link to the Smiths website to work at first - managed in the end though.

Food for thought

[hc4361]

dotty, I copied and pasted that from the Kobo Arc site. It does give 'recommendations' - adverts.

The Kobo Arc has been reviewed and is still very much considered an eReader. It ships with 'Tapestries' not jelly bean

[Smowball]

nungate - its confusing isnt it! I want him to be able to read books and watch films etc as well, but everybody has a favourite and I just cant choose!

[dotty.]

no it has ice cream sandwich hc and NO adverts, I demonstrate them every day for hours at a time, I tend to know what I'm talking about with them as I am actually using them on a daily basis, wish i was back selling shoes but i'm not and so there you go

[nungate]

I doubt my best beloved would be bothered about watching films and such but I think he might enjoy reading his books on a reader as opposed to carting a book around with him - he has a lot of time at work just to sit around and an e-reader might be a better option to carry about with him rather than toting a book about

[magicmick]

Can you tell me where you sell them dotty? or not I know you are near me

[Smowball]

WH Smiths I think