Fisher Price and VTech are two toy manufacturers that really manage to deliver top quality products for your little kids. The latest and most interesting competition between the two is the battle for e-readers. Fisher Price attacks the market with their "super cool" iXL Learning System, and VTech replies gracefully with the delightful V Reader.
Fisher Price's iXL is a new electronic gadget designed just for preschoolers. Open it up like a book, and you'll reveal about an 1 and by 3 inched touchscreen that is the key to all kinds of things that kids can do. Connect it to a computer and personalize it, and then you can play music, store your photos, read stories, interact with animated characters and play games in many different ways. The software is appropriate for kids, it's got a great sound system, and it has a head to head jack so you can connect it to your computer and add more stuff. You can download the software for the MAC, or you can use the enclosed software for PC. It has a friendly user interface and it's easy to load all kinds of things on to it when a kid is going to take it along and play.
The guys at VTech say that the V Reader is the first animated e-book system for children. The touchscreen is bigger than iXL's touchscreen, but half of it is occupied by a QWERTY keyboard. It is only for reading stories and playing reading games, so we can say that it has a higher educational value than the iXL. On the other hand, the V Reader doesn't play music, and can not store photos. Touching different words on the screen makes the V Reader read the word out loud, and touching the animated characters makes them react and interact with you.
Both of them are kind of cool, and choosing between the iXL and the V Reader is simply a matter of knowing what you want for your child.
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