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hey everybody thanks for tuning android authority for another one of our application reviews this one is for the kids Maps application for honeycomb tablets it's brought to you by the developer medium mechanic and it's a kids learning application that teaches them about the states of the United States of America let's take a look hi let's learn about the states of america because the green start button to begin direct estate puzzle piece onto its matching shape on the map nevada nevada produces more gold than any other state so as you see it brings a state up on the right side gives a little fact about it and then the kid uses them the layout of the states on the left and you can just drag it over you're awesome if you want to start over just click the orange reset button nebraska there are many cows in nebraska so you can see that it kept popping up with different tips like earlier it said to click on the green start button to to start out the session and it also says you can reset by hitting the reset button up above there are a few different settings that are available here you're able to switch over to alphabetical on the states or randomized or skip to the next state alphabetical Alabama Alabama starts with an A Alabama's state flower is the camellia or you can switch back to the randomized Wyoming Wyoming is where you can see a rodeo and then you can skip Arizona you can find cactus in the Arizona desert so that's pretty much all the functionality of that portion but then you're able to change a couple settings over here and generally the only two options that are changeable is the tips of which are the the start button and the and the reset button options where it tells you that you can do those the other one is auto snaps so that way for a real little kid really what they need to do is just drag it generally to try a different state generally in the direction of it and it pops in one place Texas Cowboys come from Texas so if you turn the auto snap off it doesn't you you can't just it won't automatically snap into place until that the child drops it on Targ Soulja Georgia crows tasty peaches so that is generally the only options except for voice off voice on music on music off so pretty much that is the extent of the customizations which is good for a little kid I did find that my my daughter tended to open the different menus and stuff accidentally while she was playing with it generally she enjoyed it very much the only things that ended up coming up kind of funny was if you look up here I live in Seattle Washington and the state of Washington actually isn't shaped anything like that it has a big Peninsula on the on the left side of the state which doesn't show on here even though most of the states on here are pretty accurate I mean Texas looks identical Alaska's a little bit differently because they change the archipelago into a long Peninsula on here but otherwise every other state looks very accurate except for Washington State so I thought that was kind of funny and I don't know that my daughter would ever catch on to that until she was in school the only other one that I thought was kind of funny was some of the different facts about the state's made my daughter ask a question or two or should repeat him when Virginia came up it said Virginia's where tobacco comes from and she said tobacco and had to kind of a question I'm like now she's she's three years old I'm not going to bother explaining to her what tobacco is but other than that all the other facts did seem pretty relevant there are a couple of them that were state birds and state flowers things like that but I think there was another one that just what kind of state it was I don't think was Texas but got out of a lone star state kind of thing otherwise the kids Maps application was really enjoyable for her and I do like the fact that when you put it into the alphabetical mode alphabetical Alabama Alabama starts with an A Alabama's state flower is the camellia so you can see that it tells the child every single state so I'd say Nevada starts with an N and so it's a good way to you know assist them in learning their alphabet also on top of geography I know that my daughter really liked the the puzzle pattern of it where she is able to match shapes and that's where she really enjoyed it the most overall this application being a dollar 99 on the android market did seem like it was worth it and my daughter did enjoy it two dollars worth and i gotta say i as a parent i recommend it for anyone who has a child and a honeycomb tablet because i have looked around quite a bit for learning applications for honeycomb tablets and i didn't find a whole lot of them that i was very impressed with and i know that when it comes to the quality of applications on things like the ipad they do have quite a bit of good educational applications and i was very impressed with the kids maps app i gotta say i recommend i recommend it and thanks for tuning the 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