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<h2>Kids Tablet Market The next Frontier?</h2>
<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Tablets which are already in their infancy are sub-dividing and creating more markets like the fast rising Children's Tablets Market. As usual with Christmas looming the industry starts to take bets on which toys/gadgets will do well. Oregon Scientific are set to take on arch rivals V-tech and Nintendo in the children's educational toy sector with its latest gadget for kids the "Meep tablet".
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[caption id="attachment_4733" align="aligncenter" width="344"]<a href="http://tidd.ly/d656149c"><img class="size-full wp-image-4733" title="Meep Colors" src="http://www.gadgetrophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Meep-Colors.jpg" alt="Meep Colors" width="344" height="248" /></a> Meep Colors[/caption]

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<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">"Kids will be kids" and that means loosing stuff. Text books can be very pricey and replacing some essential books for older kids can be very expensive.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Some books will retail for as much $30.00 and this is where the numbers start to build up. Compare that to a Tablet where you can easily re-sync the App's from say Kindle Store, iTunes or Google Play. Preserving information that would have otherwise been completely lost and it also helps the environment.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Kids tablets are a very interesting proposition especially parents who will end up many different kinds of books and other electronic gadgets most of the time.  Here you have the ability to save some of those books, games, etc saving space, money every time a book is torn, a CD game is scratched and many other similar examples - getting apps looks more convenient and cheaper. Especially with App stores peaking at over half a million apps.</span>

<a name="The Meep Tablet" href="http://tidd.ly/d656149c"></a><a href="http://tidd.ly/d656149c" target="_blank"><strong>The Meep Tablet</strong></a>

[caption id="attachment_4736" align="aligncenter" width="344"]<img class="size-full wp-image-4736" title="Meep Tablet" src="http://www.gadgetrophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Meep-Tablet.jpg" alt="Meep Tablet" width="344" height="248" /> Meep Tablet[/caption]

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Meep is a tablet aimed at children over 6 years that is quickly gaining momentum in the kids tablet sector. Oregon Scientific have been very clever in their approach towards such a sensitive market. Innovation is nothing new with the company having claims to many "World first" products including the highly raved about "World's slimmest MP3 with transparent LCD display".</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Pioneering a product comes with its own launch complications. For example, when they was first launched Meep in February 2012, it was heavily criticized and given low ratings. A situation we have seen before starting with Apple and iPhone, Microsoft then followed by Xbox/Kinect - which all turned out highly popular lines.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Geeks at Oregon Scientific quickly realized that they had a good product and reacted quickly and learned from the experience to finally emerge with a very good product.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">[youtube_sc url="http://youtu.be/snfm2RiguW8" title="Kids%20Tablet%20Explosion?"]</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Being one of the pioneers in the market, the designers had to think of a whole ecosystem to support the tablet. Starting from the user, to the parent who will worry about their child's on-line safety.</span>
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Parental Control VS Child's Online Safety On A Meep Tablet</span></h3>
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The Meep Tablet comes with a parental Dashboard that allows parents to get access to the tablet from any PC or other smart device with an internet connection and a browser. Parents are able to manage the way their children access the internet, monitor spending on marketplace and approve and disapprove friend requests. It's recommended to turn on search safe search when you buy any children's tablet.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Meep lays claim to be the only tablet so far, that provides complete parental control.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">The Meep Tablet comes with its own market place for apps, games, Ebooks and music. The content in Meep Market Place is vetted and since its also an Android Tablet, parents get access to Android market where there are thousands more apps to download.</span>

 
<h3><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;"><strong>Meep Accessories.</strong>
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[caption id="attachment_4735" align="aligncenter" width="344"]<a href="http://tidd.ly/7821d052"><img class="size-full wp-image-4735" title="Meep Piano" src="http://www.gadgetrophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Meep-Piano.jpg" alt="Meep Piano" width="344" height="248" /></a> Meep Piano[/caption]

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As you can see from the smiley faces, it's a colorful little number. So the designers had to come up with matching accessories like:</span>

Headphones: <a href="http://tidd.ly/8278f6e6" target="_blank">Meep Headphones</a>

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A drum:<a href="http://tidd.ly/561b9823" target="_blank"> Meep Drums</a></span>

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A Steering Wheel : <a name="Meep Steering Wheel" href="http://tidd.ly/b32fbd10"></a><a href="http://tidd.ly/b32fbd10" target="_blank">Meep Steering Wheel </a></span>

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A piano: <a name="Meep Piano" href="http://tidd.ly/7821d052"></a><a href="http://tidd.ly/7821d052" target="_blank">Meep Piano </a></span>

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Microphone: <a name="Meep Microphone" href="http://tidd.ly/8278f6e6"></a><a href="http://tidd.ly/8278f6e6" target="_blank">Meep Microphone</a></span>

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Joystick: <a name="Meep Joystick" href="http://tidd.ly/4dbb246f"></a>Meep Joystick </span>

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Case: <a name="Meep Case" href="http://tidd.ly/a9c2c747"></a>Meep Case</span>

It kind of reminds you of Nintendo DS when you look at the accessories.

 
<h3><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;"><a name="Meep Tablet Specifications:" href="http://tidd.ly/d656149c"></a><a href="http://tidd.ly/d656149c" target="_blank"><strong>Meep Tablet Specifications</strong>:</a></span></h3>
 

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Its powered by a 1 GHz Cortex A8 processor and runs the latest version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Featuring a 7 inch touchscreen display, 512MB RAM, 4GB internal memory and SD Card support, its perfect for gaming and educational needs.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Good connectivity features with USB & HDMI ports plus Bluetooth support.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">So, you have a decent games console, camera, portable DVD player, eBook reader and a music player for your child all in one place.</span>

 
<h3><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;"><strong>Things That A Child Can Do With The Meep:</strong>
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[caption id="attachment_4734" align="aligncenter" width="344"]<a href="http://tidd.ly/561b9823"><img class="size-full wp-image-4734" title="Meep Drum" src="http://www.gadgetrophy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Meep-Drum.jpg" alt="Meep Drum" width="344" height="248" /></a> Meep Drum[/caption]

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This is a tablet made for kids to play and learn safe educational stuff. You are looking at songs, games, streaming TV Shows, reading books, Learning real school subjects, drawing etc.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Because its been made "kid friendly", the software packages are enhanced example words will be highlighted as kids read and then offer them a proper pronunciation of the word with support for comprehension with character voices and a stylus for doodling.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans Hebrew', sans-serif;">Streamlining the product line right from start should bear well with many parents who will be looking for matching sets.</span>