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hey everyone welcome to another review by James review room now today we'll be looking at the Nabi dream tab HD 8 currently as of this video ABI has 4 tablets in total ranging from $99 to the current dream tab of 269 dollars and if you're in the market for a tablet for your child Nabi is the leader in offering kid-friendly content with strong parental controls in mind and this tablet does more than just provide videos to watch games to play there is a dedicated learning system with a reward system for learning a chore list and several other features which I'll go over now hopefully with my video this will help you decide if this is worth the $269 or not so without further ado we'll get started now just like the rest of the Nabi line it comes in its signature protective red silicone sleeve and I'll admit it's not as thick as the Nabi 2 I reviewed last year's Christmas but it should protect against minor drops and scratches now underneath you have the plastic construction painted in pearl white and without the protective case maybe was still thoughtful enough to include these pegs on every corner so if your child places this facedown the tablet's bezel and glass screen won't be scratched the new comes in with a 8 inch screen and overall measures 9.3 inches wide 6.3 9 inches high and point 8 3 inches thin now the dream tab also comes in weighing at 4.1 pounds which was a bit heavy for a tablet considering most premium tablets today on the market weighs in at about 1 pound now for an adult it's not bad at all but for say a six-year-old I would imagine he or she would leave this at a table or have it set in their lap for use but overall with my experience the tablet is still very well built and feels durable going over its button layout you have a 3.5 millimeter headphone port through the far left here with a microphone right next to that far right has your power and volume rocker buttons and then rotating to the right has a micro SD card reader that you can expand your memory up to 32 gigs which is a huge plus the very bottom at first I thought was an HDMI port but it's really the Nabby connector for charging your tablet with the supplied wall charger on the bottom left here houses a stylus pen which is unique to the dream tab only which no other ABI has the pen is provided for an emphasis on being creative with drawings and sketches and now more on that later though now the very front here houses 2 speakers which for our tablet actually does well not the best quality but again for a tablet it's not bad at all they're just loud enough for personal use with minimal Distortion now the last several features are a 2 megapixel camera on the front for your kids who take self-portraits and moving on to the rear here a 5 megapixel camera with a built-in flash and these pegs in the back here are meant to install accessories you can buy from the Nabby store and you can personalize it with little pictures of your choosing or in this case in this video here you can purchase the entire alphabet to attach an a/b also sells a little kickstand for $20 that might be useful as well now going into its contents the dream tab is filled with things to do going over the very basics first when a child is in their user interface called navi mode they have access to the tile based apps and icons and there's three web browsers that I've counted which I have no idea why they put so many in the first place now the first to the Nabby web and the Foods website which is several pages over are limited to what Nabi has put on there now reviewing the experience the Nabi web was the slowest performing web browser and I wouldn't call it a web browser at all as its limited to its content that you as a parent can't add your own web pages the food web browser is basically the same thing it's a little bit faster has different content but again yet limited the last and most true web browser you can say is located on the menu button on the bottom simply called web here you can click websites already placed in by the Nabi or you can add more by tapping the Add button here a child can't add a website themselves and only a person knowing the parent password can only do so but besides the web you have a camera that they can play with you can also save music on to your microSD card and play music right off of that and the filing pages I'm showing here has many episodes of their favorite cartoon characters now not to mention some very good interactive games that focuses on their colors shapes and abcs now there are some other games on there as well where it's a bit more entertainment than interactive learning though and lastly the entire movie turbo from DreamWorks is also pre-installed on the tablet as well so overall I really think there's a lot to keep a child entertained with what's pre-installed by Nabi but what's more important I want to go into detail what really sets this tablet apart it's the education aspect under university basically offering such areas in math English science and social studies with some subject areas going up as high as the fifth grade and surprisingly there's a lot of content an example if you click on math there's five different topics to choose from for the kindergarten level from counting to shapes now click on either one of these topics and you can see there's many modules for our child to practice and go through and after all the practice there's a quiz for your child to take if you desire to do so now the other learning system that Nabi markets that's much more interactive and much more entertaining in my opinion is the wings system with whimsical music and more vibrant colors and characters your child goes through lessons via an interactive map it works well in the lessons that are available for pre-k seems fine now this might be a downfall and but it seems reasonable for Nabi to implement this but once I change my child's education level to kindergarten and even all the way up to the 6th grade you have to purchase more modules typically a dollar ninety-nine through the Nabi store so just be aware of that there's no lessons pre-installed for grades kindergarten and up but on the plus side with the wing system after each completed lesson of course getting answers correct they collect stars and the stars are then exchanged for Nabi coins it's a virtual currency system earned when a child completes a lesson or finishes a chore and their chore list more on that very soon though but with the coins your child can go into the treasure box app and with those coins they can purchase additional apps games content etc now as a parent you can buy more coins with real cash to further use for the dream tab here for many years down the road but having the ability for your child to learn or basically earn stars I'm sorry and translate them to coins I believe really teaches your child hard work and the reward that comes with it and as I stated earlier there is a chore list that their parents set up and throughout the week as progress is being completed the parent can check off the kids accomplishment now in turn one chore completed equals one Nabby coin earned and what I'll do next is go into parent mode where I can access the chore list to customize you can add a wide variety from homework responsibilities to household chores to do something longer-term like graduating from the first grade now if it's not on the list you can easily add one yourself and name it anything that you want and just to further expand on parent mode here it's practically a standard tablet where you can download almost anything from the Google Play Store as you normally would with any other tablet you have access to Google Chrome calendar and Gmail with entertainment options like Netflix Flipboard Pandora HBO Go and YouTube just to name a few now games for both the Nabi mode and adult mode ran perfectly fine on my end here but in regards to overall performance and just a heads up though I ran into a lot of freezes a lot of frozen screens when I first started playing around with the Nabi and the video playback had some hiccups where it would pause and then resume play now the system update for me was about 470 megabytes which isn't too bad but for some reason it had taken over an hour to download it probably close to two hours and I have fast internet in the house as well but once downloaded this isn't a date I believe made the system run that much more smoother than originally starting and testing the range in the Wi-Fi in the dream tab was a bit sketchy at timed as well sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slow now in addition at the time of this video the tablet is still very new I guess you can say and there are some features that are not yet available as well so one of those items is the dream pro studio the dream temp selling point is offering your child to express its creativity with drawing pictures tracing being the inner arse that they are while strengthening their hand to eye coordination learning about collars etc it's a great concept as the approach studio is where I would see the stylist coming in as being the most beneficial now using the stylus on a regular basis was okay you navigate selecting apps etc but after using Samsung tablets that offers a stylish as well depend on the Nabi dream tab didn't feel as smooth as I'd like almost sometimes the Nabi doesn't register my swipes and movement as well instead I would go back to using my fingers and that was basically more ideal now the last server features which really is beneficial to the parents you can set parameters and time limits for your child you can set a time for how long an app or a game can be played for you can even set up the dream tab to go to sleep after a certain time period or a certain time specifically letting the dream tab shutdown itself without the parent doing the dirty work you can say and all this can be monitored as well you can see how long your child has been learning versus just playing games you can see their progress on learning programs etc maybe really again focuses on parental controls as much as the content for the kids now the last of our items I want to mention testing the battery life playing with the tablet and trying to learn its features setting this up etc a tablet from a full charge died after 4 hours and 57 minutes of news so overall the tablet has some great promises but did have some performance issues surprisingly and I hope by the time you see this review most of those issues are gone with the system updates the Nabi 2 was a hit last year and I know a lot of parents really liked it at this time the Nabi 2 content wise offers similar nearly the same things as the dream tab but yet 50% cheaper in price and I really like the idea that the dream tab comes with a stylus to indeed supplement your child's learning and creativity but I just don't understand why they would release a product at this time with features stated coming soon again by the time you watch this video hopefully this will be available and I wouldn't see why not though now with all that being said the dream tab at this moment is the most up to date in regards to its technology operating system Ram processor and even the screen is the best looking screen compared to all the other nap is available a navvy product I believe is really great if you're in the market for a kid's tablet now if you're able to wait though a Nabi 3 hopefully should be coming out soon and at that time you can see which one is more beneficial to you so hope this review helped you in some way and if it did all I can ask is if you can please share this video as these videos do take a lot of time to put together find me on Facebook or Google+ and subscribe to my channel for more content this is Jimmy from Jim's review room take everyone by