Sanrio Hello Kitty SMS Text Messengers - White & Pink

by Hello Kitty

Product Features

• Hello Kitty Text Messengers - White with Pink Accents
• Wireless Sends and Receives Text Messages Between the Two Text Messengers!
• Data Bank Organize Hold Phone Numbers, Addresses, Emails and Memos
• Secret Password Function Locks out Intruders
• Each uses 2 AAA batteries (not included)

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B0025WEIX6
• Item model number: 79009
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,251 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Product Description

This is definitely technology that stands out! You can wirelessly instant message with your friends with this Hello Kitty SMS Text Messenger. It sends and receives Text Messages between the two messengers, and comes with a data bank organizer that holds phone numbers, addresses, e-mails and memos. If you're not so sure about leaving all your private information on this trendy little piece, there's a secret password function that locks out intruders! The package comes with two SMS Text Messengers for you, and your best friend! Now younger kids can do what they see the teenagers do, send text messages to their best friends! Works with other Hello Kitty Text Messenger only. Great for car travel and slumber parties or anytime friends want to send secret messages.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great pre-phone Gift!, May 28, 2009

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EMom (Michigan) - See all my reviews

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sanrio Hello Kitty SMS Text Messengers - White & Pink (Toy)

Our daughter received these for her birthday and LOVES them! Keep in mind that these are not on a network and are used in close range with each other. When she has a friend over they have a lot of laughs using these in the car and around the house to send each other "secret" messages.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bewildering Complexity and Terrible Interface, December 4, 2010

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Bruce (Cleburne, TX) - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sanrio Hello Kitty SMS Text Messengers - White & Pink (Toy)

I was excited to buy these for my daughter, but thought I should check them out before putting them under the Xmas tree. Many glaring design flaws and the User Interface couldn't be much worse. Letters printed BELOW the buttons so they are covered while you are inputting text, of the old "press 3 times to get the letter C" style input. A befuddlingly complex interface requiring multiple arcane button pushes to prepare the units for sending and receiving text. For example, after setting up and inputting data, you hit SEND. Does it send? No. The device cryptically asks you, "P/I?" To this, you respond by finding the chicklet sized ICQ CALL key and pressing it. If the receiver has gone through the process of setting up their unit to receive, and if they're line of sight, and aimed at each other, the input text will send.

I think it would be just about as easy to teach my kid Morse Code and buy her a telegraph key, as to try to decipher this thing.

Does it work? Yes. Should your kid be a computer programmer to get it to work? Yes again. Can you run the device without the manual? Not till you've got it memorized.

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, November 29, 2011

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Mindy Pfeiffer (IL) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sanrio Hello Kitty SMS Text Messengers - White & Pink (Toy)

I was shocked at how hard this toy was to comprehend. We are tech people and I couldn't understand how to send a message. It's insane to think that someone thought children would follow these instructions. This toy literally went In the trash.