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Tomy Walkabout Platinum Digital Baby Monitor | 
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| Brand: Tomy
Category: Baby Product
List Price: £99.99
Buy New: £66.50
You Save: £33.49 (33%)
New (21) from £66.50
Rating:  23 reviews
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 4.7 x 9.5
MPN: AmazonUk/TOMY4
Model: AmazonUk/TOMY4
EAN: 5011666012455
ASIN: B0009E66CS
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Digital clarity and security with 2-way communication | | • | 300 meter range | | • | Privacy guaranteed | | • | 100% interference free with 120 auto-select channels | | • | Sound-sensitive light display | | • | Night light on baby unit | | • | Recharging docking station for parent unit | | • | LCD display with temperature read | | • | Last feed timer | | • | Vibration alert on parent unit | | • | 2 year guarantee | | • | 4x AA rechargeable batteries supplied | | • | Manufacturers recommended age: birth and upwards |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
This monitor is fantastic! After making the extremely hard decision to move our three month old to his own room, all i can say is that this monitor has been a god send!
Yes we're first time parents, and so at first you are stuck with the question of do you buy a monitor with night vision, with plates that you can monitor your babies breathing, or do you relax and listen to your friends that the more your monitor has the more you will worry! Well we listened to them all and opted for the Platinum!
Yes it monitors the temperature, but this is good for knowing exactly what to put your baby in to sleep -- will they be too hot too cold -- with this you know, it also has a light display which shows if your baby is crying, a vibration alert, and also you can choose to turn the volume up and listen to your babies every move. It really is great, we can hear our little fella sleeping from the comfort of our own bed!
The monitor also has a nightlight, a feeding/sleeping/changing timer -- which can be useful. It has a very cool function of talkback, so you can speak to your baby through the monitor -- a little freaky for a young baby but extremely good fun for scaring/freaking partners, friends and relatives!
All in all, this monitor is great, it really does mean you can have a good nights sleep! A yummy first time mummy--Amazon.co.uk
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very good monitor May 27, 2006
student midwife (uk)
34 out of 35 found this review helpful
After trying numerous baby monitors, this is the best most reliable one I have come across. The sound is clear, it picks up babys breathing and you can hear it load and clear. Some of the monitors on the market that are digital, I found to have poor reception, poor batterty life, and not so crystal clear sound. This has been by far the best. I would recommend this to all if you are considering a reliable, quality monitor.
It has a beautiful blue starry night light and has loads of additional features such as 2 way talk, temperature monitor and many many more. The baby unit can also be portable which quite a few in the same price range do not. In my opinion this is the best.
 Fantastic Product! August 27, 2006
Schockwave
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
Having had several baby monitors for my severally disabled, now adult daughter, who also has seizures, and having used analogue monitors, which are still in use and one digital monitor, which is also in use, whilest waiting for this particular one to come out, I can only say what the others have said, it really is the best one on the market, very loud and clear, easy to turn the sound down, very clear with no interference whatsoever, and much louder than the other digital monitor I have. I can highly recommend this one, whether it be for someone caring for an adult or someone with children. I also like the fact that I can communicate with my daughter. Money well spent, in my humble opinion. I have a second cradle with cable, so that I can charge it downstairs, the other cradle and cable is upstairs in my bedroom, so that I only have to take the monitor up and down the stairs. The other good thing is, if it is noisy, you have the possibility to have the monitor on to vibrate instead of sound, and you still have the lights showing when there is any sound. I say well done to Tomy for such a great product, the wait was worth it!
Great sound quality and immunity to interference July 17, 2007
Liam (Cambridge, UK)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
We've been using this baby monitor for 8 months. Its best feature is undoubtedly the fact that it is very tolerant to interference. This is because it is based on DECT (Digital European Cordless Telephony), which has its own dedicated operating frequency band. Only DECT equipment is allowed to operate in this frequency band and the system is designed to avoid interference between co-located DECT units. Many other baby monitors use shared frequency bands, in which many different types of equipment can also legitimately operate. This is why they can be very susceptible to interference. You will read reviews from very pleased users who were lucky enough not to operate their baby monitor in close proximity to interfering equipment. You will also read reviews from people owning exactly the same baby monitor who have suffered terribly from interference resulting in dramatically reduced range or even complete malfunction.
The sound quality is excellent. The range is pretty good - from an upstairs bedroom I found I could go about 50 yards from the house before the link failed. You could probably get 200 yards line of sight (with no wall/barrier) but ultimately you need to be close enough to get back and address any problem so I think the range is fine. Some older buildings with very thick walls will reduce the range you can achieve significantly. The battery life isn't great, perhaps 4 hours if the parent unit is not in the charging cradle. Temperature display is useful and it confirms that the link is still good even if there is no sound to hear. The remote controlled light is a pain as you can easily switch it on by accident. We also found that occasionally (perhaps once a month) the parent unit got into a mode where the warning lights illuminated indicating loud noise but there was actually no sound at all at the baby monitor end. We found that powering down and back on cured this but it shouldn't really happen.
So in summary adequate range, great sound quality and immunity to interference but also a couple of minor niggles that mean it gets 4 stars rather than 5.
 No, please don't buy it - let me save you from this awful product August 8, 2008
Gtahhh (London)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've had two of these and eventually saw sense and got another brand. This product is so poor it's prompted me to write my first review.
The plus points:
+ It's easy enough to use
+ Sound quality by dint of being digital is good (none of that hiss that you got with the older analogue units)
+ Temperature reading useful
+ Good control of volume level
(I'm starting to scrape the barrel, so...)
The negatives:
- The battery life is pathetically short and critically not long enough for an evening's monitoring, meaning that if you're staying away you need to set up the charger which is often a pain; the battery is the type from a home cordless phone so not easy to have another and keep it charged to extend usage
- It turns itself on when you're travelling - you can't actually turn it off and all it needs is one quick tap on the parent unit power button and it's on again; this means that it does an annoying beep-beep in your bag (just the thing for stressful car journeys ;-) as it can't find the baby unit and when you get to where you're going the battery will be flat; I made a little cover that I Blu-tac'ed over the button but even this didn't solve the problem all the time; in the end I just had to take the battery out when we travelled with it, which means using a screwdriver and adding to the palaver of setting up camp when you're travelling
- The button layout isn't logical making it hard to find or press the correct button, particularly in the dark; the buttons should be recessed to prevent accidental presses, particularly when it's in your pocket; this doesn't sound like a big deal but if you're going to use the timer feature (which is actually very handy) then you're certainly going to reset it by accident rendering it useless; a press-and-hold to reset the timer would fix this; ergonomics and product design get 0/10
- It's not very durable - drop it and the screen cover is likely to pop out; this is held in with tiny fragile tabs that just break off; it's not fixable so you'll need to tape this back on
- Range not brilliant - has tendency to lose connection and then the parent unit starts beeping
- It can give false readings - both of mine, after a while, gave random erroneous 'blips' into the red on the level meter; this means that you have to turn up the volume to check if it is really the baby crying; in the end you can't trust it.
- You can't stand it up when it's not in the charger - minor, perhaps, but annoying as you need to pick it up to look at the screen
I couldn't face a third one so I bought a BT Digital Baby Monitor 150 which is durable, reliable, feature packed, you can actually turn it off, and the best bit is that the batteries last for 12 hours plus (and they're standard NiMH AAs). Please spare yourself the frustration and don't buy this annoying and fatally flawed Tomy item.
Bad ergonomics but great sound November 2, 2007
S. Patel (Croydon, Surrey)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Thought i would add my comments (not a full review) as i have had one of these since Feb this year but there are some common issues people seem to experience
1) The design for the parent handset is bad, you cant stand it up on its own. So then you cant see the lights/ display at the dinner table etc as easy. Also if you have it in your pocket then its easy to press the talk or light button inadvertently. I think they should have recessed these.
2) When we got it, my son wasnt born yet. The day before he was being discharged from hospital i charged it for 16 hours or more. We didnt need to use it much off the charging unit at that point so we didnt notice until the last few months that the battery was only lasting 30-40 mins before bleeping and showing almost out of power.
So i called the Tomy careline (number on back of monitor) and they sent me a replacement battery to try. Did the 16hr charge again and now it will stay on full bars for 3-4 hours minimum so looks like they must have had a dodgy batch of batteries as this one has subtly different wording compared to the old one.
My advice is call them, get a free replacement battery and see if that solves your issues - they have a 2yr warranty on it anyhow.
Cant do much for the lack of ergonomics though. But the sound is crystal clear - if only they could find a way so you didnt get awful screeching feedback when you walk into the same room as the transmitter holding the receiver - this is a flaw of all equipment of this type AFAIK.
Thanks
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