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I'd like to find a handheld for Leyla that she can occasionally use to play some infant games? (Like Fischer price where she taps the screen and animals are identified and play sounds)

I'm not comfy with her using my phones for games and it's small. My wife uses the wifi for work and we don't want the baby to delete things by mistake.

Does anyone know of or have experiences with a small reliable durable handheld?

If you have an iPad or similarly sized tablet, get the Fisher Price case for it. We have that set up for Li'l Z and it hasn't gotten a scratch on it, even after may high drops on pavement and hard floors. Plus it's big enough to let them play games that practice writing and coloring. I don't know what we'd do without ours.

We bought a Nabi Jr for my 2 year old niece. She seems happy enough with it, but granted she wasn't really playing the games properly, she seemed most entertained with different things happening on the screen when she touched something, so lots of opening a random app and her hitting the home button to go back to the main screen. There are unique kid apps available, made by Nabi, plus there is a Nabi app market (apps vetted by nabi), and you are allowed to download anything through the android market with a little extra work (a parent-controlled account). It's pretty bulky with the rubber guard, and durable enough for drops from kid height, but not waterproof (the first one was broken via water damage, Best buy protection plan got her a replacement), so maybe an older iPod touch with an otterbox would offer best protection (and embiggen it at the same time). I planned to put a bunch of cartoon episodes on a microSD card so she has plenty of media, but the thought of her finding it and swallowing it made me nix the idea.

GasBandit said:

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My niece had that exact toy as a baby. Played that thing to death.

At this point in tech I'd recommend doing what we did: We got an iPad Mini and a SUPER amazing case. This thing is tough.

We have it totally locked down via the parental controls and both of the "Endless" games (Endless Reader and Endless Numbers) have been amazing for our daughter. Now that she's 2 she wants to do more so have put more stuff on there for her, Netflix and Angry Birds and a few other games and books but thats where we started and seriously, between that and all the reading we did with her she just latched on to her abcs and reading and numbers. Granted, every kid is different but the iPad is great for long trips and will continue to be useful and versatile as she grows older.

Downside: She thinks our TV is a touchscreen.

Espy said:

Downside: She thinks our TV is a touchscreen.

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HA! I thought we were the only ones. I find myself cleaning fingerprints off of every screen in the house. And other people's homes. Does she try to press the station ID in the bottom corner like it's an app?

Celt Z said:

HA! I thought we were the only ones. I find myself cleaning fingerprints off of every screen in the house. And other people's homes. Does she try to press the station ID in the bottom corner like it's an app?

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Oh yeah, anything even remotely button shaped gets pressed.[DOUBLEPOST=1405465420,1405465393][/DOUBLEPOST]It's terrifying how good she is with the iPad now. Still sucks at Angry Birds though. She shoots the all the wrong way.

Guided Access is a really handy iOS thing with kids.

Our kid got this until he proved himself worthy of more expensive things...

...which he still hasn't done.

--Patrick