Mattel I4009 Radica Girl Friendchips Review

[.] My sister and I thought we could IM all over the area. So we split up and invited the "chips" over. To our displeasure, we had to go all the way back, rearrange the "chips" and put them in. Not a very good toy. First you have to tiresomely scroll through each letter. For example, to type au, you must press the select key and type 25 times, so messages take AT LEAST 5 minutes. You must then physically GIVE those little chips to your friends. It would be 100 times easier to just talk to them.

Hello, I'm in 8th grade and my friend and I split the money to get these friendchips. YOU WERE SO WORTH IT! It took a few minutes after we received them to figure out how to use them and I had to read the instructions because my friend didn't want to. But after we did, they were so cool! All my other friends wanted them and they went and bought them too! The only problem is chips. It's cool tech and all, except sometimes the chips can get lost and there are only 4 chips in each set. But when…

I don't have a friend's chipset, but I like it. But I want to know if it is worth $20? Well, firstly, if the teacher isn't blind, he can easily see you typing something with a friend's chip machine while with pencil and paper he thinks you're doing the task. And how do you get the chip to your friend so you can throw it across the room? Second, I'll get a cell phone with SMS in a few years, so is it worth spending that kind of money for a few years? And what if I want to send a note to a friend