Vtech cyber pocket game

Smile Cyber Pocket. I figured this might be something that my kids would like so I agreed to take a look. In fact, I think that Vtech does a great job of marketing their brand and their social media outreach to moms is first-rate. This product is designed for kids ages and my three year-old was pretty baffled by the whole thing so after he and I worked on it together for about ten minutes, he lost interest and abandoned it on favor of a set of wood blocks.

My five year-old was more successful in her attempts to use the Cyber Pocket, although the stylus wasn't somewhat difficult to use and she was confused about what some of the buttons were for and so was I frankly. The device includes activities for a wide variety of skill sets -- from spelling to math and music.

After playing with the Cyber Pocket for awhile, she went to her room to retrieve her Leapster L-Max that she received as a gift for Christmas last year. She pointed out that the buttons and pen on the Leapster game were easier to use. Over the next few days, she continued to play with the Cyber Pocket and she started to get more familiar with the both the device and the game. And then the Cyber Pocket totally stopped working. I changed the batteries, but still, nothing.

When I told the Vtech folks about this problem, they couldn't have been nicer and overnighted me a new Cyber Pocket -- which has been working just fine for week now. So what's my bottom line on the V. Smile Cyber Pocket? I continue to think that these types of hand-held electronics are a good thing for kids to use in a very limited way I keep them up high so that my kids have to ask for my permission first.

Our initial experience with the V. Smile Cyber Pocket has been a little bit disappointing but I think that it is something that my kids will enjoy more as they get older and more proficient at using the device on their own. And although our experience with the V. Smile Cyber Pocket has been just so-so, I am definitely willing to consider their educational electronic products in the future as my kids become more interested in these sorts of things -- which seems inevitable because of older brothers and their fancy Wii systems.

And when the first one stopped working, they sent me another one. I was not paid for this review. This is just our experience with the V. It plays all of Smartridges, but since joystick controls are built into keyboard setup is more easily on desktop surface with small TV serving as monitor, similar to person computer. For some 1 who already own V Smile, Smart Keyboard accessory and touch tablet enhanced joystick will provide similar experience.

Since keyboard can be disconnected and standard joystick or other V Smile accessory used, Pal can easily convert into duty as normal V Smile system when needed. New variant of V Smile is V Motion Active Learn System Model , introduced as sort of low cost, educational alternative from V Tech to Wii with it built in controller accelerometers that detect movement.

V Motion system is not as advanced, but includes Wireless, motion activated joystick that is right left adaptable. Controller can be title in direction to achieve result on screen, rather than using traditional joystick directional control. Dodging things or moving left and right with controller can inspire play to physically engage in games.

Vtech has advantage in number and diversity of available accessories such as Smartbook and Art Studio, whereas Leapfrog Leapster accessories are generally focus on portability options such as batteries and cases. V Smile family in general is more focus on TV connect ability, while Leapster family is more focus on handheld, portable systems, but both Vtech and Leapfrog have moved to compete with 1 another on both fronts.

Leapster systems and games tend to be slightly more expensive than V Smile games. Leapster does have age range for some games that reaches up to age 11, which is territory more for V Flash than V Smile.

Noteworthy is that both Leapfrog and Vtech continue to sell previous generation handhelds at reduced price compared to Leapster 2 and V Smile Pocket. V Smile Pal variant console and Smart Keyboard accessory faces direct competition with Leapfrog Clickstart educational computer offering, and indirect competition with various toy educational laptops and low cost desktop with children software and child friendly accessories installed.

Rough comparisons in technological capability with V Smile consoles in terms of graphics and sound can be made to SNES and Game Boy Advance systems, console is technologically comparable to most 4 or 5 generation consoles despite being released in 7 generation of consoles. V Smile systems in general are offered for fraction of price of those consoles when they were, and V Smile systems were design specifically for children with focus on education.

Durability and quality of plastics and other components of V Smile systems is in line with expectations given low cost of devices. Replacement game system hardware can often be bought for less than cost of single game on dedicated current generation console game systems from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo on market.

Several games were released in different countries, and as result of console being aimed at young children who might not know English, they were translated into their respective languages. Games also have suggested age range on box, that sometimes change depending on which country it was released in.

Console and it games were sometimes distributed by different companies, such as Concentra in Portugal, and Giochi Preziosi in Italy. Some V Smile games were released with V Motion functionality, while some were exclusive to system, and others were never upgrade. Cartridges are light purple in color, but there are others 1 that work with accessories are bright yellow, V Smile Smartbook games are red, and transparent dark purple cartridges, which came with several bundles of special edition console in different games.

V Motion cartridges are rounded top with hole in shape of V and are orange in color. There is known unreleased title, Adventures In Oz, which was list on Amazon by Vtech in , before console was released, but it is unknown if it was ever developed or if when why it was cancelled. Research by American Academy Pediatrics and National Institutes Health show that Vtech V Smile Baby product, market for ages 9 months to 3 years, meet claims that it helps with early childhood development or education, stating that children ages 0 to 2 years do not understand what is going on on TV screen.

In , Council on Communications and media released report title Media Use by Children Young than 2 Years concluded that educational of media for children than 2 years remains unproven despite fact that 3 quarters of top selling infant videos make explicit or implicit educational claims, and further found that media viewing by children under 2 years of age can have negative effect on language development. Showing Slide 1 of 3. Pre-owned Pre-owned Pre-owned. New New New. Seller Report item - opens in a new window or tab.

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