A List of Popular Kids Cell Phones the US
For parents who are thinking about ending their agony and giving in to their children’s demands, here’s a list of popular cellphones for kids for your reference.
Cingular Firefly
Cingular now offers two product lines, the glowPhone and the flyPhone. The glowPhone caters to very young kids with colored screens, games and customizable display screens and ring tones to keep their interest. The phonebook can store up to 50 entries. Meanwhile, the flyPhone is a multi-media camera phone designed for tweens and teens. It allows kids to make calls, send and receive text messages, listen to music and play games, among others. Both lines are controlled by a parent phone that sets usage and spending limits.
Cingular offers both prepaid and postpaid plans for their services.
TicTalk
Enfora’s TicTalk is aptly named based on its handset design alone which looks like a stopwatch. It is intended for very young kids which is why the engineers opted to put in a rocker switch instead of a keypad. This allows young users to scroll through phonebook entries and make a call with a push of the switch. Like most cellphones for kids, parents have full control of the phonebook entries through online access as well as calls that are allowed on the kids’ cellphones.
AT&T’s Smart Limits
AT&T couldn’t help but join the club by offering add-on service to existing family plan users. For just $4.99 a month for every line, parents get to be enrolled in the Smart Limits service that allows them to control their children’s voice minutes and text messaging as well as multimedia downloads.
Disney Mobile
Kids from 11 to 15 years old find Disney Mobile’s authentic LG camera flip phone the coolest in the bunch yet. Apart from such features that most parents look for in cellphones for kids such as managing kids’ spending and usage, parents are likewise gaga over Disney Mobile’s GPS technology. It allows them to keep track of their kids’ whereabouts. Disney has partnered with the mobile carrier Sprint for this service.
Verizon’s LG Migo
The bright green LG Migo offered by Verizon Wireless is designed for kids 5 to 9 years old. It allows kids to send and receive calls but has no text messaging capability or games. Parents get to remotely control the phone’s 5 speed-dial keys and keep tab of their children through the phone’s GPS system, called Chaperon service which has to be activated separately.
Kajeet
Kajeet partners with Sprint to offer the best deal with its pay-as-you-go service for all the features that everyone looks for in cellphones for kids. Kids get to choose from the standard “grownup” handsets available while learning to become responsible for managing their own “wallets” that parents set the limit to. It also allows parents to remotely manage incoming and outgoing calls and texts, as well as enjoy its GPS features. GP
Posted in Kids Cell Phones on October 10, 2008 - 12:35 pm by admin |
