Tomy Walkabout Platinum Digital Baby Monitor

Tomy monitors are not just for babies – people up and down the country are using monitors daily for other purposes, such as: Toddler monitoring (keep a listen out to the little devils as they play in their rooms). In-house communication (maybe for resting elderly relatives up-stairs). Outdoor communication (for those who spend more time in the shed or garage than they do indoors!). A great combination of features with excellent performance and clarity of sound – from Tomy, the name parents trust for baby monitors. Mains adaptors included. For portable use the Baby Unit requires 4 x AA batteries (not included). Manufacturers age recommendation: 0+. What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item? 51% buy the item featured on this page: Tomy Walkabout Platinum Digital Baby Monitor 3.2 out of 5 stars (42) £59.49 34% buy BT 150 Digital Baby Monitor 4.6 out of 5 stars (101) £58.50 8% buy LeapFrog Advanced Digital Baby Monitor 4.5 out of 5 stars (11) £59.99 4% buy Tomy Walkabout Premier Advance Baby Monitor (Blue) 2.9 out of 5 stars (17) £54.98 Explore similar items Tags Customers Associate with This Product  (What's this?) Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people. Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below tomy(2) awful(1) design(1) disappointing(1) flawed(1) rubbish(1) unreliable(1) See all 9 tags... Your tags: Add your first tag Search Products Tagged with   See most popular tags   Customer Reviews 42 Reviews 5 star:  (9) 4 star:  (8) 3 star:  (9) 2 star:  (13) 1 star:  (3)           Average Customer Review 3.2 out of 5 stars (42 customer reviews)         Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review Most Helpful Customer Reviews   34 of 35 people found the following review helpful: 4.0 out of 5 stars Very good monitor, 27 May 2006 By  student midwife (uk) - See all my reviews Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars  After trying numerous baby monitors, this is the best most reliable one I have come across. The sound is clear, it picks up babys breathing and you can hear it load and clear. Some of the monitors on the market that are digital, I found to have poor reception, poor batterty life, and not so crystal clear sound. This has been by far the best. I would recommend this to all if you are considering a reliable, quality monitor. It has a beautiful blue starry night light and has loads of additional features such as 2 way talk, temperature monitor and many many more. The baby unit can also be portable which quite a few in the same price range do not. In my opinion this is the best. Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   26 of 27 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Product!, 28 Aug 2006 By  Schockwave - See all my reviews Having had several baby monitors for my severally disabled, now adult daughter, who also has seizures, and having used analogue monitors, which are still in use and one digital monitor, which is also in use, whilest waiting for this particular one to come out, I can only say what the others have said, it really is the best one on the market, very loud and clear, easy to turn the sound down, very clear with no interference whatsoever, and much louder than the other digital monitor I have. I can highly recommend this one, whether it be for someone caring for an adult or someone with children. I also like the fact that I can communicate with my daughter. Money well spent, in my humble opinion. I have a second cradle with cable, so that I can charge it downstairs, the other cradle and cable is upstairs in my bedroom, so that I only have to take the monitor up and down the stairs. The other good thing is, if it is noisy, you have the possibility to have the monitor on to vibrate instead of sound, and you still have the lights showing when there is any sound. I say well done to Tomy for such a great product, the wait was worth it! Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)   22 of 24 people found the following review helpful: 2.0 out of 5 stars No, please don't buy it - let me save you from this awful product, 8 Aug 2008 By  Gtahhh "So now you know..." (London) - See all my reviews I've had two of these and eventually saw sense and got another brand. This product is so poor it's prompted me to write my first review. The plus points: + It's easy enough to use + Sound quality by dint of being digital is good (none of that hiss that you got with the older analogue units) + Temperature reading useful + Good control of volume level (I'm starting to scrape the barrel, so...) The negatives: - The battery life is pathetically short and critically not long enough for an evening's monitoring, meaning that if you're staying away you need to set up the charger which is often a pain; the battery is the type from a home cordless phone so not easy to have another and keep it charged to extend usage - It turns itself on when you're travelling - you can't actually turn it off and all it needs is one quick tap on the parent unit power button and it's on again; this means that it does an annoying beep-beep in your bag (just the thing for stressful car journeys ;-) as it can't find the baby unit and when you get to where you're going the battery will be flat; I made a little cover that I Blu-tac'ed over the button but even this didn't solve the problem all the time; in the end I just had to take the battery out when we travelled with it, which means using a screwdriver and adding to the palaver of setting up camp when you're travelling - The button layout isn't logical making it hard to find or press the correct button, particularly in the dark; the buttons should be recessed to prevent accidental presses, particularly when it's in your pocket; this doesn't sound like a big deal but if you're going to use the timer feature (which is actually very handy) then you're certainly going to reset it by accident rendering it useless; a press-and-hold to reset the timer would fix this; ergonomics and product design get 0/10 - It's not very durable - drop it and the screen cover is likely to pop out; this is held in with tiny fragile tabs that just break off; it's not fixable so you'll need to tape this back on - Range not brilliant - has tendency to lose connection and then the parent unit starts beeping - It can give false readings - both of mine, after a while, gave random erroneous 'blips' into the red on the level meter; this means that you have to turn up the volume to check if it is really the baby crying; in the end you can't trust it. - You can't stand it up when it's not in the charger - minor, perhaps, but annoying as you need to pick it up to look at the screen I couldn't face a third one so I bought a BT Digital Baby Monitor 150 which is durable, reliable, feature packed, you can actually turn it off, and the best bit is that the batteries last for 12 hours plus (and they're standard NiMH AAs). Please spare yourself the frustration and don't buy this annoying and fatally flawed Tomy item. Comment Comments (3) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this) Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 42 customer reviews...       Most Recent Customer Reviews 2.0 out of 5 stars Best avoided I have been very disappointed with this monitor and am not surprised to see quite a few average to poor verdicts from reviewers. Read more Published 16 hours ago by Mr. I. J. Weston 1.0 out of 5 stars not user friendly The battery life was short to start with but after 3 months use it lasted about half an hour before running out! Read more Published 6 days ago by V. Ferries 2.0 out of 5 stars Not all that great actually Cons: 1. We have to leave it in hall as we loose signal taking it into living area 2. The power button is the same button as the one that turns the light on in the... Read more Published 19 days ago by K. E. Douch 3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but beware of limitations Good points: - Excellent audio quality, can hear breathing at normal volumes - Good nightlight - Temperature sensor appears pretty accurate - Min/max... Read more Published 1 month ago by R. E. Hatton 5.0 out of 5 stars Very good The main reason for buying this is because I already had one, I had had it for years and it was brilliant but when it starting to turn off (due to battery failure I think) I did... Read more Published 2 months ago by Pw Steadman 1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother with this monitor.... I'm in the process of returning this monitor yet again to Amazon - it's the third one we have had and the last 2 have only lasted a couple of months before the parent unit fails... Read more Published 2 months ago by Jo 1.0 out of 5 stars Flawed product, poor design. We've had nothing but problems with this monitor and the product design is so flawed that I felt compelled to urge others to consider a different product. Read more Published 2 months ago by Brad823 5.0 out of 5 stars really good monitors I would highly recommend this product to anyone buying baby monitors. Our baby has not arrived yet but we have tested the monitors out and they seem great. Read more Published 3 months ago by Cheryl 2.0 out of 5 stars Very poor and annoying battery life The battery life is a real pain and ours lasted only 6 months of once daily usage. At the start the battery lasted 1.5 hours. Read more Published 3 months ago by Radiotherapist 4.0 out of 5 stars excellent product if you don't need the battery fuction we have had this product for 2 years now and are very happy with it, we've permanently got it on it's charger in the kitchen and can hear it all the way through the house if need... Read more Published 4 months ago by SBK Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 42 customer reviews... Customer Discussions  Beta (What's this?) This product's forum (0 discussions)   Discussion Replies Latest Post   No discussions yet Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight Start a new discussion Topic: First post: Prompts for sign-in   [Cancel] Guidelines Active discussions in related forums   Discussion Replies Latest Post baby Expecting our first baby this August. What should we stock up on? 18 1 hour ago     Related forums baby  (1 discussion) Listmania!   My favourite Cooking & Baking books: A list by C. Atkinson   Baby Monitors: A list by Discover Baby   Pregnancy and Parenting Books: A list by Dulcinea "Dulcinea" Create a Listmania! list Search Listmania! Look for similar items by category Baby Products > Safety Equipment > Baby Monitors > Baby Monitors Baby Products > Safety Equipment > Baby Monitors > Breathing Monitors Fun for Everyone Achieve over 15,000 RPM with our great range of Powerballs. ›Shop the Powerball store   Let Olay Amaze You Amazon.co.uk sells all your favourite ranges from Olay, including Regenerist and Total Effects. ›Discover Olay at Amazon.co.uk   Boys Smell But we make sure they smell good... ›Discover male grooming at Amazon.co.uk   Treat Someone With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). ›Learn more about Gift Certificates   Where's My Stuff? track your recent orders view or change your orders in Your Account Delivery and Returns see our delivery rates and policies thinking of returning an item? (See our Returns Policy) Need Help? Forgot your password? Buy Gift Certificates. still have questions? Visit our Help Pages Your Recent History   (What's this?) You have no recently viewed items or searches. After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. Continue Shopping: Top Sellers The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 4.5 out of 5 stars (75)£3.86 Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer 4.1 out of 5 stars (464)£6.49 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson 4.1 out of 5 stars (165)£3.99 The Host by Stephenie Meyer 4.2 out of 5 stars (83)£3.86 Amazon Home International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates