Vtech - V.Smile Pocket Learning System
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Toys and Games Reviews of Vtech - V.Smile Pocket Learning System
Customer Review: Works Great So Far
Summary: 5 Stars
We purchased this item for our 4 year old for X-mas & had some misgivings about it, given the negative ratings about it going K-PUT after a few uses. However, so far we have had no problems with ours and it has held up well. It does use up batteries pretty quickly, but we bought the wall charger and car charger, which solve the problem. In fact, I wouldn't even bother with the battery charger, just use the outlet chargers. You only need batteries if your not near an outlet anyway! Our 4 year old really enjoys the games and we have many. In fact, we also purchased the TV model originally and it never gets used, given that this model serves both purposes - TV and handheld play.Customer Review: Great Concept, Great Games , Poor Quality
Summary: 2 Stars
I loved the concept of this toy, Teaching with games. But I bought both the v-smile and the v-smile pocket and have been disappointed. The quality of this toy is really bad. It lasted a few hours before turning off on its own. The home version of the system was a bit more resilient. It lasted a few months. Now I have to click on the "on" button a few dozen times before it works. The pocket version is just plain bad. I have had a lot of trouble getting it to work with batteries. I works better with the 9v wall adapter, unless you move a little then it resets itself. I bought my daughter a leapster for Christmas. Hopefully that one works better. Will post later on that one.Customer Review: We Love VSmile
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought a vsmile pocket for one reason only...trips to grandma's house. (She lives 3 hours away.) I compared the leapster and vsmile and my selling point was the games. The same games that fit the vsmile also fit the vsmile pocket and we already had a vsmile and a ton of games. It is a good system, but like I said we use it in the car and that is it, since they have the vsmile system there is no need for them to be burning up batteries playing it in the house. I really like vsmile and all their products but they seem to be cheaply made. Like we are constantly having to reset the vsmile system, but so far the pocket works well, and I bought it used.Customer Review: How long have all the Five Stars had theirs??
Summary: 1 Stars
If you're writing a five star review and you've had it for about ten minutes, keep going. I bet a million dollars that in 3 or 4 months or even a bit beyond that it just stops working for no apparent reason. These are not cheap, and I have bought two, one for my daughter and one for my son. My sons (the oldest, bought it first) lasted longer than my daughters at about 6 months, then my daughters did not even make it to the three month mark. Of course, they both fritzed out at the same time otherwise I would not have bought my daughters if my sons had stopped working. I'd much rather have bought a different game consol for them. .Very disappointing.Customer Review: Hope you can afford to replace it every 6 months
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had to replace my sons darn thing every 6 months. And the home version about also. I say about because the first one lasted 4 months and the second one 8. So the average is six. He is not a toy destroyer either. He has a Nintendo DS and a Playstation 2. Both of them for years, and they aren't even designed for kids. I just like thse because he learns playing them, so he's limited on his PS2 and DS. I really like the concept but the quality really sucks. Now his Vflash, the new one from Vtech, died yesterday after we just bought him two more games for christmas. And their customer support really sucks so.