The one thing I'm keen to avoid is the kids getting sucked into Apple. Our youngest is almost 2 and he can already unlock his Mum's phone and start making calls! We got the two boys to share a Nabi tablet for Christmas and have to say it's brilliant. Same specs as a Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire HD but has a kid's mode that's completely locked down.
Win8 phones have "Kid's corner"! Is it any good?
I am also keen to get the Nokia Lumia 920 and then the Surface RT Pro tablet or similar and then just got to convince the wife we need Xbox 360 in addition to the children's Wii. I have studious avoided Apple much to my 9 year old son's disgust.
But can it control Sky?
Only got council telly out here in the boonies
We now have a little box that plugs into our Sky system which gives us on demand stuff through our wifi.