FLY 1.0 Pentop Computer

This was a gift for a very good, nine-year old student. She loved it as did her parents, who are both school teachers. It took some prying away from Dad so the girl could use it. All adults who saw it were intrigued by it also. This is a great learning assistance tool which she enjoys using along with the FLYware Fly Through Math: Multiplication & Division package. It was a very positive purchase.

Educational product

Bought this for my daughter's 10th birthday. She wanted it very much and I thought it would be such a hit. Well initially it was, but it's in the playroom, sitting on it's charger, where it's been for several days now. I wanted to make sure she would have things do with it, so I bought flygames, the journal and the speaker as well. She did get a big kick out of it at first and did some of the activties in the games book. The pen works very well and she had no problems getting it to work. The games book requires you to draw in it with the pen's ink, so you cannot reuse the games and I haven't seen other versions of the game book, so once it's used then what??? She wants the spanish translator for Christmas which isn't cheap and I'm not sure if I want to drop any more $$$ into this thing.Just a note: My daughter is an avid reader, but is not as motivated to write, so maybe if your child loves to write/draw the Flypen would be better for them??

doesnt transfer stuff to your computer *** at least that i could figure out**** but still cool item.

Cool toy but a waste of money. Kids couldn't wait to open the package. Used the FLY pen . . . and never looked at it again.

Fly pen

I wanted to buy this thing for my sons educational needs but only for spelling and math so I thought I would just purchase those cartridges. I have since gotten rid of the thing because I did not have a cord or software or paper... always needed something more and the confusion really comes from there are two different pens and all the products are not compatible.

I gave this to my 12-year old daughter for Christmas. Is seems to be a very cool device, if you can get the software to run. I was unable to get its software to run on my PC, under Windows XP home. A quick internet search showed that many others have had similar problems. In my efforts to resolve this issue, I ran up against the worst customer service I have ever experienced from the company of an expensive hardware product I have purchased. Leapfrog does not answer its own email forms it claims it will answer within 24 hours. The customer service agents who answer the phone barely speak English and have no technical knowledge whatsoever. They asked me to send some files from my computer to help diagnose my issue. I sent the files immediately and never heard another word in reply. Apparently they maintain no records of individual cases, with the result that each time I call I have to explain my problem all over again from the beginning. Last time I called I was told my case was being "escalated," and that I would receive a phone call within the next two days. When I laughed at that, the customer service agent just laughed along with me. Guess what? It's been several weeks and I'm still anxiously awaiting that call. I have had to use a PC at work on which the software actually runs to download files from the pen. Hardware if finally only as good as the software on which it runs.