Amazon.com Product Description: With Bert & Ernie's Computer Phone, children will learn how to count and familiarize themselves with numbers, shapes, and colors, as well as develop social skills, like cooperation and acceptance of others. Winner of the EuroPrix 2000 Award, this colorful phone's 60 different scenes helps kids build skills, while interacting with Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie, Elmo, and Big Bird. Kids will delight as they hear these lovable characters' voices in the earpiece, as though they're really on the phone.
With a large handset made of durable purple plastic, children can control the onscreen action by speaking into the phone or pushing one of the phone's 12 big buttons. Bert and Ernie speak back, Big Bird sings, Elmo is Elmo, there are short skits, the screen changes colors, and more. Kids can even record their own voices for playback on a built-in answering machine. Perfect for preschoolers, Bert & Ernie's Computer Phone easily connects to your computer's game, microphone, and speaker ports. Without the need of a keyboard or mouse, your child's interaction with some of Sesame Street's most lovable characters is immediately rewarding.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - phone needs new cord
My daughter loves this program -- but her baby brother broke the cord on the phone. I don't know how to get a new one, so if one of the other reviewers wants to sell theirs...
Otherwise, it works fine in Windows98.
Rating: - Kids liked it when it worked . . .
The kids loved it; seemed to be well-constructed; installation directions were clear and it worked as described. Then, after a few months, the phone keys stopped working. Unfortunately the keys are required to interact with the program.
The Comfy website is well-done, with some additional useful information; however, the phone still did not work. The technical support person I dealt with via email was polite, fairly responsive and tried to be helpful; however, the phone still did not work. We can pay to have the phone sent back to Israel, but 2+ lbs at international rates is more than we paid, plus its 6-8 weeks in transit one way.
What was a great product turn into a great disappointment.
Rating: - Elmo Phone
My grandson loves this phone. He started using it at 16 months. It works very well with Windows 98 and does just what it says it will do. There are 3 levels, with level 3 being the interactive level. It is a perfect way to introduce a young child to interactive learning with a computer. I have ordered the Bert and Ernie phone, which is supposed to be the next level up, for his 2nd Birthday. We have all been impressed with this product. 5 stars from this family!
Rating: - Looks good, wonder if it works
Good idea, nice design, good packaging, problem is it doesn't work with Windows XP. And good luck trying to get support from the company, their US phone number picks up an buzzes, their website's "FAQ" is vague, when it's there, and their on-line "customer service" folks are downright rude. Can we give it a negative star? Same comment goes for the Elmo phone by the same company.
Rating: - System requirements are too vague
We never got to install this product. The ssytem requirements on the box say that it needs a sound card. It would not work on our system so we called tech support. They said that you need an analogue sound card and we had a digital. Had they been more specific on the package we would have exchanged it (it was a gift). Now it is open and we are stuck with a useless program.
- phone needs new cord
- Kids liked it when it worked . . .
- Elmo Phone
- System requirements are too vague
