baby smiles

Overall Rating: ( 18 reviews )

1. Posted: Jul 28 2008

   Okay, my husband and i were torn between the v.baby smile and the leap frog little leaps for our daughter's first birthday. I spent DAYS online reading and comparing reviews. After hearing so many conflicting opinions we finally decided to buy them both and figure it out for ourselves. Here is what we came up with. Yes, the graphics are WAY better on the little leaps. But thats about the only thing we liked about the little leaps in comparison. The V.smile baby has graphics that will definately get the job done and was easier to set up. But the thing that REALLY sold us on the v.smile was that when you pressed a button something IMMEDIATELY changed on the screen. Even when the cartoons are talking and you are not instructed to push a button something little will pop up after a button is pushed. The cartoon continues explaining so you dont loose any information but the child can also see the effect of pushing that button. With the little leaps if you pushed a button out of turn nothing happend. And they talked alot and asked for little response. When they did want you to press a button the screen would just pause until you did. So to me it felt like watching an educational video and the child just has the pause and play buttons. Since we are buying it for our daughter's first birthday that would put her in the lower end of the recommended age for these toys so we wanted to go with the one that would hold her attention longer and would enforce things like cause and effect because she is going to care more about something popping up when she hits a button than what the cartoon is saying to her, atleast for now. Another plus to the v.smile baby is that the activity panel is a toy on its own and it offers sign language. Hope this helps anyone else that was in the same situation as us. Keep in mind that we did not buy any games for the systems since we were just testing them out so this review is based on the sample games that come with the systems. Also this review is based on what my huband and i noticed when we played with it, its a gift for our daughter so she has not yet played with it so i cant tell you how she responded to either of these toys. End result, the little leaps is getting returned and the V.smile is getting wrapped for her birthday.

2. Posted: Jun 14 2008

   This is great I don't see why people don't like it...the graphics are just fine. I bought this for my 3 month old son and he likes to look at it on tv...really it's not that bad of a product. Not bad at all!

3. Posted: May 21 2008

   We bought this for our daughter for Christmas last year and she LOVES it. She has learned a lot from the games and now can play the games independently and she picks which game she wants to play and puts it in by herself (she's 22 months old now). This is a wonderful and educational game for any infant/toddler.

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Overall Rating: ( 2 reviews )

1. Posted: Jun 29 2008

   The only good thing about it is it shows Pooh, my baby instantly recognizes Pooh, but that's the end of it. I'm hoping she'd be more interested in it in the next months since she's only 1.5 y/o. My advice - don't get an extra cartridge yet because the one that comes with it (LEARN AND DISCOVER HOME) is probably the best. Initially you might be thinking (as I did) that since it comes free with the toy, that it might be boring. NOT THE CASE AT ALL. The lowest mark is probably the music. It can't attract my baby, it's a little boring. When she's older, I hope she'd take notice of the games. The games are like, really also boring and hard to understand for smaller babies, compared to LEARN AND DISCOVER HOME.

2. ( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Apr 9 2007

   I can say that I was disappointed by the lack of response by both of my boys when it came to the V Tech system. I thought that the V.Smile baby would be a big draw. I also bought the V Tech bigger kid version for my more "advanced" twin. It's not as easy as it seems and the babies don't always get the correlation between the TV and the system. It's a challenge, but hopefully they will learn to love it.

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Overall Rating: ( 3 reviews )

1. Posted: Jun 8 2007

   Was a Christmas gift for a child who still to this day is enjoying it as is his little sister. Thank You

2. Posted: Jan 12 2007

   This product is nice. My son is mentally retarded and he loves it. He is seven years old but he is developmentally toddler stage. I play it with him hand over hand so he learns the cause and effect and all the components that goes with it. The animation is something to be desired. It's a little low budget I think.

3. Posted: Dec 28 2006

   My niece and my son have enjoyed playing with this so far. We have not had it too long, but the animals are cute and it seems to hold their attention-which is saying something for my niece who just turned three.

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