22 2 / 2012
Product Review: Fisher-Price Apptivity Case
Fisher-Price Apptivity Case for iPhone and iPod Touch. Available starting from $19.99.
Try as we may to keep our kids unplugged, this is 2012. The effects and influence of technology and communication are practically unavoidable. If your children are anything like ours here at the Poopsie Collective, then they are constantly after your iPhone. After having two Blackberries broken by one of these little monsters, we decided to be a bit more proactive with the new iPhone (which, we learned recently, has more power than the computer used to send the first space shuttle to the moon! Something to think about the next time you are playing Hanging with Friends…).
Anyhoodles, we searched high and low for a case that would be protective yet allow the children to engage. There aren’t many options out there. A few cases, like the Otterbox Defender, offers a high level of protection. But, who wants to carry their beautiful, streamlined iPhone around in a high security prison of a case? We found an interesting solution: Fisher-Price’s Apptivity Case. This colorful plastic case allows you to drop-in your iPhone or iPod Touch, lock the back (save your fingernails and use a coin to open and close the lock instead), and your little one is ready to play safely with your device. The phone can’t be used while inside the case (the microphone and ear piece are covered), but otherwise the device is completely functional.
Another plus is that it looks like a toy to the kids. It is easy for them to hold onto, and we like that it signals to the kids that the phone is ready for them to enjoy. We’ve already noticed that they are far less interested when the phone is in mom’s plain black case. File this comment under ‘Things Yuppies Say’: We had an iPod Touch laying around, so we synched it to the iCloud, locked it up in the Apptivity Case, and now the kids have a device all their own! Problem = Solved.
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