Walkie Talkies for Kids

I am a radio nerd and have tried all kinds of FRS radios and by far these are my favorite for short range applications. I took one apart -- there is a ~500mah detachable LiPO battery inside (which a nerd could replace) and a unique spiral antenna that is on the owl/cat's front-facing left year. I've found in practical use the spiral antenna cuts through obstacles and underbrush REALLY well, and can be picked up by its sister radios with identical antennas excellently with zero interference. They work fine with standard straight-antenna FRS/GMRS radios, but there's a little static when you move the antenna around as spiral antenna has a different geometry. Anyhow, each walkie has its own charging cable included, along with a matching color silicone-ish "watchband" and "lanyard". These accessories are kind of cheap and the lanyard won't hold up well to kiddo shenanigans, but you can easily substitute a different lanyard.These are the SMALLEST FRS radios I've found on the market with CTCSS and VOX options as well that aren't garbage like the other watch-radios I've seen. They aren't super powerful but great enough for my needs, half a watt output power... but like I said that spiral gives it great ability to cut through obstacles that normal FRS antennas have trouble with. Also -- 24 hours talk and 72 hours standby??? thats INSANELY HIGH CAPACITY compared to anything but the huge heavy huge-battery walkies out there! You can also leave them plugged in and "on", I leave them around my house plugged in and on so I can always hear when my people page me, even if I forget to carry around my walkie.For those who want to know -- CTCSS lets you set a "code" on your chosen channel that is encoded into each transmission, it doesn't protect others from hearing your transmissions if they have no code set, but you will NOT hear ANY transmissions except from other walkies with that exact same code set. Good way to filter out unwanted "noise" from others and keep your kiddos from getting spooked by strangers. Only a really sharp radio-knowledgeable person could figure out and duplicate your CTCSS code and break in to your transmissions.The FM feature is nice to listen to local stuff -- though its easy to accidentally press the button. While you are in FM mode, any transmissions received will still be heard (it will stop the FM radio to listen to the transmission, then go back to FM radio) and the transmit button still works. You can "LOCK" it once you set it the way you want so your kiddo won't accidentally press any buttons.Only complaint -- the buttons are rather delicate for small fingers, and I've found my young daughter easily got it out of socket so that she could no longer transmit. A simple good PINCH by an adult by the horizontal sides can pop it back into place. May be hackable -- the device is very easy to take apart with a tiny screwdriver.Last word of advice that goes for ALL LiPO batteries to get maximum life -- DON'T let them sit around drained of power for a long time (they will die/lose capacity much earlier). Thanks for reading!Edited to add: if you have powerful GMRS walkies please don't use them in short close range with these, I've found they get damaged and the mic pickup becomes poor. (My daughter was having fun messing with mine). They are also not friendly getting wet! If you need a more powerful compact walkie, hunt the KSUN M6 model

Perfect Birthday gift for my 7 year old granddaughter! She loved it!

EDIT: A few months after my initial purchase, i have more information to add to my review. There's good news and bad news.First, the bad news. Out of the 6 radios total i've put into use, two of them became unresponsive after a very short period of time (one around 3 weeks, the other at 6 weeks); by "unresponsive" i mean that none of the buttons did anything when pressed, and incoming transmissions were ignored.The good news, part one: there turned out to be a fix for this!! Hold down FM (the nose) and PTT (the talk button on the ear) to reset the radio. It worked like a charm! The good news, part two: the seller was really super cool through this, and went way, WAY above and beyond to make sure i was happy. They actually restored a small piece of my crumbling faith in humanity -- they were THAT NICE.ORIGINAL REVIEW:Although my elderly mother lives with me, she remains very afraid of injuring herself in a fall and not being found for a while. An emergency call button didn't seem like a good fit for our situation, so since i'm always nearby, we thought we'd try having her wear a walkie-talkie. I selected these because they're small and can be worn either as a pendant or a watch; the fact that they're also cute was basically icing. I was concerned Mom might have trouble with the sound quality, as she's a little deaf, but she can hear and understand me just fine through them. After trying them out for a bit, we decided we like them well enough to order a second set so that two of them can be charging while the other two are in use.Speaking of charging, my personal experience implies that "5 days stand-by" may be an overgenerous estimate, or at the very least, somewhat misleading. Mom and i exchange maybe 2 sentences per day via walkie-talkie, and still the batteries never seem to last more than two days (her unit needs charging more often than mine -- usually every day -- for reasons clarified in the next paragraph). To be fair, we have NOT tested the stand-by time by leaving the radios turned off for 5 straight days to see if the batteries last that long, but then again, i can't think of any reason why being able to do that would be useful to anybody. When i first got these, i was excited to see that there's an option to lock all buttons except PTT (push to talk), since i hoped it would reduce the odds Mom would set off something noisy when rolling over onto the pendant in her sleep. However, it appears that *only* the menu button (right eyelid) is locked by this function. Mom is constantly pressing the nose button by accident, which turns on the FM radio and startles her. For obvious reasons, i didn't want this to happen while she's sleeping or cooking, but those are of course the circumstances under which she's most likely to inadvertently hit the button. My initial solution was to find an FM frequency that's almost silent, but since she couldn't hear it, her walkie was often running -- draining the battery -- either until i noticed the crackling sound, or until she heard the "low battery" signal. So i have now set her radio to an FM station loud enough for her to hear, but hopefully not loud enough to give her a heart attack when it comes on unexpectedly. If this doesn't work out, i may have to shave off the nose button, which i only haven't already done because Mom thought it would make the kitteh look less cute.In any case, we do like the walkie-talkies well enough to have ordered two pair. I set all four of the units to the same channel and they work together perfectly. The wristbands are scored along almost their entire length, allowing them to fit wrists anywhere from "small child" to "obese woman" (that would be me). Mom likes the way they look -- both the colors and the cuteness -- and loves the added feeling of security.

Funcionan muy bien, son prácticos, de tamaño adecuado para la edad de los niños, pero un equipo se daño muy rápido en menos de 1 mes ya se había dañado, y solo se escucha pero no sirve ningun comando

I like how small these are, easy for the kids to carry outside. Having both watch lanyard options is nice so you don't have to just rely on a kid keeping it in their pocket.

The media could not be loaded. I planned to give these walkie-talkies five stars because they’re the best option for toddlers when it comes to durability without spending a fortune. Plus, they’re less likely to get lost with the two different ways to wear them. However, my daughter received them for Christmas, and now, just a month later, one is already broken after very limited use.The issue is that one of the walkie-talkies won’t turn off, so I constantly hear static and other people talking through it. While they still function overall, we can’t really take them anywhere because of this. I hope the seller gets back to me with a solution because we genuinely like these walkie-talkies, and I’d be happy to update my review if this was just a one-off defective unit.

Great