Product Description

The Premier Advance monitor is a feature packed monitor that benefits from Tomy's advanced system technology plus a whole host of other features

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3460 in Baby Product
• Brand: Tomy
• Model: AmazonUk/TOMY4
• Dimensions: 9.45" h x 4.72" w x 9.06" l, 2.34 pounds

Features

• Crystal clear sound
• 4 channels to reduce interference
• Privacy assured
• 2-way communication
• Sound sensitive light display
• Remotely controlled night-light
• Room temperature display
• Rechargeable, portable parent unit
• 300-meter range
• 2 year guarantee
• Mains adaptors included
• Manufacturers recommended age: Birth onwards

Manufacturer's Description

Walkabout Premier Advance

Trust Tomy to make sure you and your baby are never out of reach. Day and night, you’ll be the first to know if baby makes a sound.

Leave your little one to sleep soundly with the Baby Unit nearby. Then monitor even the quietest of sounds on your Parent Unit. Wear it on your belt or place it close to hand, from the top of the house to the bottom of the garden. So, when you need some time to yourself, enjoy all the freedom and flexibility you want with all the peace of mind you need.

Working closely with parents, Tomy have produced the Walkabout Premier Advance monitor, packed with clever features – designed with you and your baby in mind. The Advance range of monitors from Tomy features Tomy’s exclusive New Advanced System technology, with the following features: 4 Channels: Selects the best channel for clear reception and the Baby Unit automatically changes to the same channel. When you next switch on, it conveniently remembers which channel was last selected. 300 Metres Range: a stronger signal so the parent unit can easily be carried around the house and the garden for flexible, portable monitoring. A range of 300 metres outdoors and 50 metres indoors, in optimum conditions. 2 Way Communication: Handy for when baby only needs a word of reassurance from afar, and to extend the usefulness of the product into the toddling years and beyond.

Privacy Guaranteed: In-built scrambling device with 65,000 unique combinations ensures other monitors in the area cannot pick up the sounds you make. Volume Control: Fine tune the sound level you require, from loud to mute. Sound Sensitive Lights: A display of moving lights echo the level of your baby’s sounds – useful when the volume is turned down and ideal for those quiet moments. Baby’s Night Light: A comforting light on the Baby’s Unit that can be operated by both the Parent and Baby Unit. The light can be switched on or off remotely from the Parent Unit to minimise disturbance. Rechargeable and Portable: The rechargeable Parent Unit lasts for hours and clips to your belt, leaving you free to move around. A visual and audio alarm lets you know when the Take Out Unit needs charging. Room Temperature Display: Monitor the temperature in your baby’s room and make sure it’s within the range recommended by health professionals. Temperature is shown on both Baby and Parent Unit.

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.

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Customer Reviews

An expensive baby monitor marred by very poor design
P>We bought this expensive digital baby monitor for our baby and wish we hadn't. The demands of artistic appearance have obvioulsy completely outweighed functionality. The problems we have found are:

1) the belt clip on the monitor unit is too low (below the centre of gravity) so the unit flops over and falls off your belt. As a result, you cannot keep it on your belt, you have to carry it about with you.
2) the monitor cannot stand up on its own because its base is artisitically rounded. You have to lay it down on its back. As a result you cannot read the temperature display easily.
3) when it is on the charger the monitor goes 'click' every minute or so. It is loud enough to keep you awake at night. This means you have to let it run on batteries at night, even if the charger is right there.
4) the batteries don't last the night. Because of (3) you can't leave it on the charger at night, but you get woken in the small hours by the 'charge me' warning. Then you have to put it on the charger and put up with the clicks.
5) where we are (Cambridge) the monitor (only when it is on the charger, but wheter the charger is plugged into the mains or not) picks up the local aipport beacon (on all channels) so we get slow morse code - this is actually quite interesting but it does mean you cannot hear the baby, plus it keeps you awake. So for us this has the same effect as (3) - we have to run it on batteries at night.
6) it is a clumsy operation to put the monitor onto the charging cradle. it doesn't just 'drop in' nicely but has to be very carefully placed there.

In its favour we would say that it is quite 'foolproof' in the sense that if either end is switched off (or set to teh wrong channel) then the other gives a warning; it is not posisble to think your are mmonitoring when you are not. The range also seems quite good and the sound quality is fine.

Initially excellent but......
We have had this monitor for about 2 years now and for the first 6 months it was excellent, then suddenly we started experiencing random loud feedback and screeching sounds from the parent unit. Interestingly enough these only happen when it is out of it's cradle and not charging??? About a year ago the talk back button broke so we can't talk to my daughter and this last week there seems to be a problem with the charger.
This may all sound negative but on a whole we have been fairly happy with the monitor (once we figured out that replacing it on the charger stopped the feedback).
If asked would I buy it again?? The answer is considering the price I'd probably pay a little more and go for a digital one in preference but if it was on sale I probably would buy a new one.

Very happy with this monitor
I have to say I bought this monitor last week and have been very satisfied with it. I haven't experienced any of the problems the other reviewers mention: I don't know if the design has slightly changed since the previous reviews were written, but the belt clip on mine works fine and the unit stays on my belt, also the parent unit has a flat bit at the bottom so it stands up when it is out of the charging cradle and you can see the display and temp. without having to pick it up. In terms of functionality it does the job it's meant to do - monitors the noise and temperature in the baby's room, and it does it well. I haven't had any problems with poor sound or interference, and we live in a three storey house - can move around the whole house and it doesn't get out of range at all. The interference problems must simply be down to environmental interference based on where you live. I guess the only solution to this is to get the platinum - which is digital, not analogue - or move house!