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Echo Dot Kids Edition, a smart speaker with Alexa for kids - blue case

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Now Alexa is a kid-friendly DJ, comedian, and storyteller — and she’s always getting smarter. Just ask and Alexa will play music, answer questions, read stories, tell jokes, and more — all with younger ears in mind.
Up to $109 in savings on Echo Dot (Black), 1 year of Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, and a kid-friendly case, plus a 2-year worry-free guarantee—if they break it, return it and we’ll replace it for free
The included 1 year of FreeTime Unlimited gives your kids access to thousands of hours of fun and educational content, including ad-free radio stations and playlists, Audible books, and a growing list of premium kids skills. After one year, your subscription will automatically renew every month starting at just $2.99/month plus applicable tax. You may cancel any time by visiting the Amazon Parent Dashboard or contacting Customer Service.
1 year of FreeTime Unlimited gives you access to over 1000 Audible books for kids, like Beauty & the Beast and Peter Pan, thousands of songs, and kid-favorite games and skills from Disney, National Geographic, Nickelodeon, and more
Easy-to-use parental controls in the online Amazon Parent Dashboard let you set daily time limits, review activity, or pause Alexa on the device
Kids can control lights, plugs, switches, and more with compatible connected devices
Automatically filter explicit songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify

Introducing a hands-free, voice-controlled speaker with Alexa, designed with kids in mind. Echo Dot Kids Edition can play age-appropriate music, answer questions, tell stories, control compatible smart home devices, and more. Includes a black Echo Dot, a 1-year subscription to FreeTime Unlimited, a fun kid-friendly case, and a 2-year worry-free guarantee. If they break it, return it and we’ll replace it for free.

With the 1-year FreeTime Unlimited subscription, kids can access content they’ll love, such as skills and music designed specifically for them. Parents can control time limits, set bedtimes, review activity, and more. With far-field voice recognition, Echo Dot Kids Edition can hear you from across the room, and only streams audio to the Alexa Voice Service when it recognizes the wake word “Alexa.” Children’s privacy is important to Amazon. Learn More

Be together more

Kids will love interacting with Alexa, and Echo Dot Kids Edition features turn Alexa into a kid-friendly study buddy, DJ, comedian, storyteller, and more. The included 1-year FreeTime Unlimited subscription contains a variety of kid-focused skills, along with thousands of songs from ad-free radio stations and playlists from iHeartRadio Family, like Radio Disney, Nick Radio and Kids Hits.

FreeTime Unlimited also gives kids access to over 1000 Audible books, including Beauty and the Beast and Peter Pan. They’ll enjoy thousands of hours of fun and educational content, like hearing stories from Disney characters, playing No Way That’s True from Nickelodeon, quizzing their knowledge with National Geographic, waking up to special alarms featuring characters they love, and more. See what's included

Alexa, read me a story | Alexa, play a game

Peace of mind for parents

Use the online Parent Dashboard to review activity, pause Alexa, and set daily time limits at bedtime or throughout the day. Parents can filter explicit songs from Amazon Music, Apple Music, or Spotify, and voice shopping is turned off to help prevent unexpected purchases. Alexa even provides positive feedback when kids ask questions and remember to say ‘please.’

Use compatible Echo devices to tell kids that dinner’s ready or that it’s bedtime—without having to shout. Use Drop In as a two-way intercom with kids and use Announcements as a one-way intercom to other household devices. Parents can also approve contacts so their child can call or message close family and friends. Learn more

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One Subscription, Unlimited possibilities

Kids can access FreeTime Unlimited content across multiple devices. With the 1-year subscription, FreeTime Unlimited offers access to over 13,000 kid-friendly books, educational apps, games, movies, and TV shows from top brands like Disney, Nickelodeon, PBS, Amazon Originals for Kids, and more. Content is available on Fire tablets, Kindle, Android devices, iPad, and iPhone. Learn more

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Echo Dot Kids Edition

Size	1.5” x 3.5” x 3.5” (38 mm x 90 mm x 90 mm)
Weight	6.7 oz. (191 grams) Actual size and weight may vary by manufacturing process
Alexa App	The Alexa App is compatible with Fire OS, Android, and iOS devices and also accessible via your web browser. A list of supported operating systems can be found here. Certain skills and services may require subscription or other fees.
Wi-Fi Connectivity	Dual-band Wi-Fi supports 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 and 5 GHz) networks. Does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
Bluetooth Connectivity	Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Dot Kids Edition or from Echo Dot Kids Edition to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported.

Audio	Built-in speaker for voice feedback when not connected to external speakers. 3.5 mm stereo audio output for use with external speakers (audio cable not included).
Accessibility Features	The Alexa app and Alexa-enabled products include several features for customers with accessibility needs related to vision, hearing, mobility, and speech. Learn more about Alexa accessibility.
Warranty and Service	2-year worry-free guarantee included. Use of Echo Dot Kids Edition is subject to the terms found here.
Included in the Box	Echo Dot (Black), kid-friendly-case, power adapter (9W), Micro-USB cable, and quick start guide
Age Range	Ages 3 and up. Not for children under 3 years.

Amazon Sidewalk: A shared network that can simplify Echo device setup and can help your device reconnect to your wifi router when you update your password or network name. Sidewalk uses a small portion of your internet bandwidth to provide these services to you and your neighbors, and is enabled on your device unless you have previously disabled the setting. You can disable Sidewalk at anytime. Learn more here.

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Bill N.

This thing needs some post release development efforts ASAP. Steer clear for preschoolers..

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2018

Color: BlueVerified Purchase

I regretfully have to award this product 2 stars...

Let me start off by saying I LOVE my original Echo and Echo Dot, and I am knee deep in smart home tech so I am by no means a novice when it comes to this stuff. I was on the original pre-order for the first launch of the Echo and have been an avid supporter ever since. We have Fire TVs, Kindles, Kindle Fires, etc...

So when Amazon announced a Kid's Edition Echo Dot, I was ecstatic to get my 3.5yr old daughter her "Very own Alexa"

What a disappointment, I've been messing with this thing a better part of 4 hours and can't even get it to stop playing "Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters" any time my daughter asks it to "play music". Why would you not default to children's music??? Why are you pulling from my library, how do I make this stop? Out of all the Amazon devices I've purchased, I expected this one to be a breeze however this is the most convoluted mess I've encountered. I finally forced it into opening "iHeartRadio Family" and it immediately started playing "Nick Radio" blaring "Monster" by Eminem. I get it, it's edited i'm not an overprotective parent but seriously? Where are preschooler songs? I set the age to 2-3 on the app, do SOMETHING that is catered to that age range (I am fully aware that Amazon does not control what iHeartRadio chooses to broadcast on their "kids" stations, my issue is the fact that it defaulted to a broader age range station rather than something actually for my preschooler daughter).

Here is an example of one of the most simple of requests:
Me: "Alexa, play kids music"
Echo Dot Kids Edition: "I'm sorry, I cant find any kids songs"

O__o Wat? What would you say... you do here Echo Dot Kids Edition?

Everything is excessively complicated, it either needs excessive context and extra steps for everything or it'll provide no feedback when commands are accepted so I or my daughter never know whats actually going on. See how asking to be told a story went...

Daughter: "Alexa, tell me a story"
Echo Dot Kid's Edition: "The family all jumped in the car, the girl had a snake in a cup, the dad slammed the breaks and veered off the road"

I can't even figure out what story this is, I ask Alexa "What story is this?" she begins to define WHAT a story is WHILE the story is still being told in the background of Alexa's response. I resort to the app finally to discover the story is called "The New Pet", how is this kid friendly?

I really should have tried this out BEFORE giving it to my daughter, now I can't get rid of it because I'd feel terrible taking it away.

Honestly you guys, this thing is a nightmare. The only reason why I gave it 2 stars is because at the end of the day it still is an Echo device and as I said before, I love our Echoes just think the whole kid edition is a joke in its current state.

What's even crazier is that I can't remember if I have ever left a review on anything I've ever bought on Amazon (That's a LOT of things we are talking about) but this is such a disappointing mess that I wanted to help others avoid the frustration I'm now going through. Give it a year for this to get fixed and maybe they can update it into something friendly for preschoolers.

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Daniel

Great Product, VERY Misleading Advertising.

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2018

Color: BlueVerified Purchase

The product itself, the Echo Dot is a 5 star product. The Freetime service itself is also great and if you DON'T ALREADY HAVE FREETIME this is a great thing to buy.

But if you already have Freetime then the price difference really isn't justified. Freetime is, essentially, just a parent control suite, albeit a VERY good one with a lot of customization options. There is nothing in this hardware that is different from an off the shelf echo dot except the case (and you can find comparable cases for less than the price difference.

Amazon has been pretty cagey about this. This is an Echo Dot that comes with a case and a year of Freetime. But if you already have Freetime service you can just turn it on on any existing Echo device, no need to purchase the special "kid's edition" there's NOTHING different about the hardware itself.

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Trevor

Kids Editions plays Erotica!!

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2018

Color: Punch RedVerified Purchase

We have a number of Alexa devices in our house and they work very well. We bought the Kids Edition for our 4-year old son. We told it "play bedtime thunderstorm" and instead it played erotica. See the attached screenshot showing it correctly understood the request. On a normal Alexa, this plays white noise.

How they could they possibly build a Kids Edition that ignores the normal requests and instead plays erotica??

I contacted support who told me we should say "play bedtime stories". How is that the solution?

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Darryl Felder

Don't waste your money.

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2018

Color: GreenVerified Purchase

****Update**** 12/06/2018
Even though the kids edtion has a very limited music library they still expect people to pay for a family plan to use it and a normal echo at the same time. I have been a prime member for 10+ years. In the past year I have seen Amazon nose dive as far as basic, general common sense is concerned. Shipped a glass bottle in an envelope, Amazon logistics trying to drop off packages at my home at 3AM, hung up on by the outsourced call center rep when asking what the heck is going on at Amazon. Save yourself some headache, get something else.

My family loves the echo we have in our living room. When I saw the kids edition I immediately thought of my son. He loves music and being able to ask for exactly what he wants to hear. Here's the stinky part, we can only listen to one echo at a time or both listen to the same thing. I contacted Amazon; you have to have the devices on separate accounts and pay for family plan (additional $7.99 per month). I told the customer service rep that an Amazon account for a 7 year old is ridiculous. I was the told that that's the way it works. What a waste of money and poorly thought out execution of a decent idea.

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