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mikec 2010-01-25 22:34
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
Give Son any device that you are looking to upgrade. Now point sadly to wife that your best toy has been destroyed by Junior.....

olighak 2010-01-25 22:36
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheLongshot (Post 494218)
A lighthearted thread, but one with a real question.

Right now, it is impossible for me to have a toy of my own, since just about everything I have, my son wants to play with. That's especially true if there are games to be played. While I try to keep my new toy away from him, sometimes it is the better part of valor to occupy him with some game, if it is hex-a-hop or Angry Birds.

Problem is, twice I've come back and he's erased the desktop with all my games. Last time he also managed to shut down most of the desktops. It was bad enough that I had to restore from a backup.

So, how do I lock up these settings so that my son doesn't muck with them? It is really a pain in the butt when either I find stuff on the desktop that I don't want or even worse, when stuff disappears.
My now 18 month old son has loved phones and computers since he was 4-5 months old. I guess it was the bright screens.

He was already well versed in skype video calls by 9 months and understood what was going on when the skype calling sound was heard :)

I´ve had to compete with my son for my N900 the last 6 weeks, he´s learned to imitate my ways of navigating into the media player and to the videos of barking puppies that I saved on there for him... :cool:

It´s cute, but a little hard to be reading emails or news on the phone when he comes running and wants to see "woof, woof", helping himself to the phone.

Thesandlord 2010-01-25 22:39
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
What you guys need is a "fake" throwaway OS. Like clone your OS to a memory card (not sure if this is possible with N900), and then after your kid is done playing it, just boot into the "real" OS. Nothing bad would have happened.

mobitsfa 2010-01-25 23:14
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
I really don't have a problem with n900, my son loves Angry birds, but i just tell him he can play that and nothing else. I showed him what not to press, and if he does to come tell me. He usually does. He's 5 though, and is starting to understand things he can, and can't mess with.

Itouch on the other hand is really easy to delete apps, and he loves deleting them. He kind of prides himself whenever they're removed. haha

adam123 2010-01-26 07:16
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
i got mango surprise slapped all over my n900 from my 4month old daughter that was laughing at angry birds lol

icke 2010-01-26 07:58
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
My 18 months old is constantly demanding to use liqbase on my n810. At the moment he loves drawing a lot. Yet, I need to sit beside him to reselect "Curve" or to lift his non-drawing hand to clear the touchscreen.

I am quite confident that he doesn't mess up something. At least more confident to let him play with the tablet - despite his habit to hit the stylus on the screen - than to let him flip through the pictures on my digital camera.

icke

MaxiKana 2010-01-26 09:44
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
Might want to change the title, the phone is not four years olthere was no proof in the op =)

DaveP1 2010-01-26 15:09
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
Buy him a PSP and tell him that's his gadget and the N900 is yours.

Bruce 2010-01-26 17:04
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
I gave my two year old daughter a N810 before I had my N900. She plays http://www.kneebouncers.com on it. She prefers to play on her own.

aironeous 2010-01-26 19:23
Re: Phone not 4 year old proof
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Thesandlord (Post 494502)
What you guys need is a "fake" throwaway OS. Like clone your OS to a memory card (not sure if this is possible with N900), and then after your kid is done playing it, just boot into the "real" OS. Nothing bad would have happened.
Yeah and a bluetooth linked version of one of these touch screens
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/bfa3/ you could just hand him/her.

Also here is some kids touchscreens http://www.phunzone.com/touchscreen/index.html


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