Game Console: Vtech - MobiGo Touch Learning System

Product Details

Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4 x 2 inches ; 14.1 ounces
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
ASIN: B00385QUTO
Item model number: 80-115800
Manufacturer recommended age: 36 months - 8 years
Batteries: 4 AA batteries required.
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: 571 in Toys ; Games (See Top 100 in Toys ; Games)
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Product Description

Amazon.com Hands-On Review
VTech's MobiGo Touch Learning System is an interactive learning device that uses a touchscreen and keyboard to control gameplay. Designed to encourage learning and the development of dexterity skills, the MobiGo device brings modern handheld technology to young users. Whether it's adding numbers, spelling words, solving problems, or spotting the differences between similar objects, the MobiGo encourages young users ages three to eight years to develop a variety of basic skills and foster the development of an active imagination.

Touch Learning SystemAges: 3 to 8 yearsRequires: Four AA batteries (not included)
What We ThinkFun factor: Durability: Ease of assembly: Educational factor: Novelty factor: The Good: Accommodates a variety of game play levels and agesThe Challenging: Small screen sizeIn a Nutshell: An interactive device that encourages learning though fun games and activities
This colorful learning companion helps your child learn with fun activities and games. .
The intuitive, QWERTY keyboard is designed for a child's hands. On-the-Go Learning Made SimpleThe MobiGo Touch Learning System has a look and feel similar to a modern handheld device, but it's designed for use by young children with smaller, less dexterous hands. It features a sliding screen that can easily be pushed up to reveal a QWERTY keyboard underneath. The soft, over-molded plastic housing creates an easy-to-grip surface for holding the device with two hands, and the rubber feet on the bottom of the device help to hold it still on a smooth tabletop surface.
New games may be downloaded by connecting the MobiGo device to a computer using the provided USB cable and installing the VTech download manager. New game cartridges that feature a variety of popular characters and themes are available and sold separately, each with their own focus and learning curriculum.
A Learning Device That Grows with Your ChildThe MobiGo Touch Learning System is a next-generation learning device that uses the popularity of modern handheld electronic devices to build skills in young children. It encourages the development of important dexterity-based skills by shifting between touch-based games and keyboard-based games, and it promotes the development of skills related to problem solving, spelling and grammar, observation, and mathematics.
The ability for parents to select a wide variety of games based on skill levels and themes makes MobiGo a versatile learning device that will maintain relevancy as a child grows. The MobiGo keeps track of user activity and saves this information under a personalized user profile that a child can set up the first time she uses the device. Although other users can play with the device, only one user profile can be saved at a time. This user can log onto the VTech Web site to download performance information, compare progress with other MobiGo profiles, and earn rewards for a job well done.
What's in the BoxMobiGo Touch Learning System, USB cable, soft cloth, owner's manual.

VTech's MobiGo gives kids their own touch-tech toy that keeps them engaged while they learn. With a touch-activated screen and a QWERTY slide-out keyboard, kids get to emulate their parent's gadgets while learning from characters like Shrek, Disney Princesses and Dora. Tap, slide or flick with MobiGo - kids pick the way they play and learn about colors, shapes, spelling, math, logic and more.

Recommended Ages: 3 - 7 years

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Product Features

Portable handheld gaming system lets kids enjoy learning on the go
Touch screen technology introduces kids to a new way to play and follows the hottest trend in gaming today
Slide-out QWERTY keyboard adds a stylish touch and gives kids a chance to familiarize themselves with a keyboard layout
Sturdy, kid-tough design and colorful appearance

Customer Reviews

I bought my son the Fisher-Price iXL for his 4th birthday. See my review on that one, but the long story short, after 3 weeks of waiting for it to be useable, I took it back. I liked the Leapster Explorer, but will not tolerate the excessive advertising and consumerism pet game. Wasn't crazy about their software choices for the 3-4 year old crowd either. Demoed all of them and had my son try them as well. He liked the Mobigo immediately... The graphics are nice, the goal setting in games looks fun. He can handle it fine for most games on easy. He loves it, and he has reached for it more in two days than the iXL that he had for three weeks.
Yeah, it's educational enough. I don't expect some handheld toy to replace his mom or me reading and talking to him, so I stopped stressing if the v-tech "curriculum" was as good as the Leapfrog's. It seems plenty educational, and more fun. It is a toy, after all.
Screen doesn't have a cover (like the iXL), and takes carts, but was much cheaper than the other two systems as well. I also don't think the iXL software would engage anyone over 5. The Explorer would have been a nice choice, but the Leaplets sound like a money pit, and by the time he would age into enough of their software, there would be something else around by then. He can have an ipod shuffle of something for his mp3's, so I won't miss that aspect of the Fisher-Price (on which I still wouldn't be able to put mp3's right now even if I didn't return it.)
Drawbacks - the QWERTY keyboard is hard for him to slide out sometimes. The screen has no cover without the case. With no stylus, he won't get writing practice, but we have plenty of paper and pencils in our house. While I think a physical keyboard is nice, it's probably no more or less cutting edge as a stylus for introducing kids to electronics.
This one is priced right, and has been a great purchase for us.

I bought this for my 3 year old daughter because we have a long commute in the car,she enjoys pretending to text so I liked the keyboard, she loves electronics and I was tired of her playing games on my phone. She enjoyed the system with the exception of everyonce in a while it won't recognize the cartridge and it has to be reset, then mom tried the downloads. She loved the downloads more than the cartridge games (we have Dora and ToyStory 3), and I find them slightly more educational such as spot the difference, a piano keyboard, and coloring pages....The HUGE drawback is that only 3 downloads fit at one time and they disappear when you turn off the system or put in a cartridge. Had I known this I probably wouldn't have bought it. I had actually been considering buying an ipod touch due to the amount of "educational" apps I could find at a very cheap price (.99-1.99), but who buys a ipod touch for a 3 year old. I was also excited to see the games for the mobigo were around 5.99 (however the first year is free) considering the games for the leapster explorer are significantly more expensive. I am wishing more than ever that I just gave in and bought an ipod touch. For just slightly more than the cost of the system, games, downloads and accessories I could have gotten her a touch with a camera, the ability to watch movies, cheap "educational" games, and a way to listen to her own music, I even found a Dora game for 2.99 for her. It doesn't make sense to me that adult/teenage "toys" are made with so much more sense than kids games.
Overall a fun system, but could have been made much better and advertised in such a way that the downloads need to be replaced everytime.