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(More customer reviews)I got this for my daughter for her birthday recently. She really likes it, but I have to say, that I am disappointed with Hasbro and the overall quality of the product. The pros and cons are as follows:
Pros: 1)nice outside case; 2)seems durable for the most part; 3)bright screen; 4)fun games to play with your pet
Cons: 1)the calendar only goes until 12/31/2010!!!! WHY!?!? Did Hasbro cut corners to save memory? Was it cheapo programming? Lame! Lame! Lame! It should have been programmed to go out at least 5 years from the manufactured date; 2)the calendar will not let you put multiple items on a day (for example: "soccer practice" as one item, "do spelling homework" as another item). It only lets you type 30 characters on any given day. I guess it's not that big of a deal, but it is annoying; 3)there doesn't seem to be any way to delete things off a particular day unless you go and use the backspace arrow for each individual character - this is a pain. There is also no way to copy something from one date to another; 4)It doesn't seem like you can save your preferences for your pet's room (carpet, bed, mirror) - but we may be doing this wrong, I'm not sure; 5)The buttons for typing letters and numbers are somewhat difficult to get to work and they sometimes miss putting the characters up on the screen. You have to tap them again and push maybe a little harder. Sometimes it takes 1 or 2 tries to get the right letter. Beware though, because if you push too hard you could break the plastic stylus; 6) The instructions are weak - they do not explain for example, how to set the current date - you have to go to the clock on the wall for that.
I guess for us, this toy is "ok". I expected a bit more. My daughter likes it and has fun with it for now, but I can see her getting bored or even maybe a little frustrated with it in the future. While I didn't expect it to do everything (it is a "toy" and not a "real" organizer), I did expect it to at least have the calendar extend out 5 years. Given how memory is these days, 10 years is even probably realistic - if there were a "delete" function for the past year's information. Two years is really UNACCEPTABLE in my opinion. What a waste when you think about it. I can't even really give it to my neice (4 years younger) as a hand-me-down-toy when she's older because the calendar part will be useless! She would probably still have fun with it anyway, but it aggravates me that it's like this.
Anyway, I would still probably buy this, but I wouldn't pay the outrageous prices that I've seen lately ($[...]+ on some sites, this one included - are they kidding??????). Given it's good points and limitations, I would not pay more that $[...]-$[...] (that's about what I paid this last December (2008).
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