Review of PhoneSmart Teaching Telephone

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My just turned 5-yr old LOVED this present. You can save up to 3 different phone numbers with personalized recordings of your voice. She had her home number memorized within an hour. Now we're working on mom and dad's cell phones. One drawback is you must press 'talk', then dial the number, then press 'talk' again. This is confusing compared to a real cordless where you just press 'talk' once. Also, I think she's fairly convinced that the other pre-programmed phone numbers (such as to the library) are REALLY what she is supposed to dial to reach the library. When you dial 911, it says 'this is the fire department' and you cannot reprogram it. We hoped to replace that with '911, what's your emergency' which is what our local 911 says.

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I really liked that this toy had a programmable feature so that I could teach my autistic son our home phone number. However, it does not allow for programming the area code, only the 7-digit number. But as a basics teaching tool, it works great. Seems to go through batteries quickly, which can be quite frustrating for my son. But it has withstood a lot of "torture" from my rough-and-tumble boys.

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This phone lasted about one year, then lost the "connection" with the base and the handset didn't make any sounds when you pushed the buttons. It lost the ability to record a message within about 2 months. Great concept just not great for my boys.

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I really analyzed the reviews for this phone and the other teaching phone from Learning Resources before I decided to buy this one. I liked this one b/c the places you can call are all normal businesses around any town (bike shop, bakery, grocery, pizza shop, etc). The other phone had some strange numbers to call like "Aunt Gladys who asks you to come over and see her new puppies". I didn't like the sound of this, for one they don't have an aunt gladys and secondly it sounds kind of like a ploy that I would want them to avoid in real life from a stranger. This phone doesn't have a cord and the other one did. You can program up to three numbers in this phone and leave messages (so that they can learn your number, their home number, daddy's cell, etc and if they dial it correctly the hear your voice recording). My cons are, the handheld phone device is a little wide for small hands. Also it could be designed better for the handset to sit in the phone, it is slightly tricky to set it in ( a little too shallow). Great for learning numbers and understanding how to dial and how a phone works. Fun for pretend play.

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This was great to teach my preschoolers about 911 during fire safety week. It is also helping them to learn their own phone numbers.

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I bought this for my 3 yr old daughter. There are two 9's on the phone, no 4. I put batteries in it and she played with it once. I have not been able to get it to work again. I am very disappointed in the toy and not because it quit but because the numbers were not correct. I may try to get another one and see how it does.