The King of Cool – Kids Cell Phones Disney

   

If you’re a parent seriously considering buying a mobile phone for your 11- to 15-year old for your own sanity, then kids cellphones Disney might just be the thing for you.  Disney Mobile markets two handsets under its name, LG and Pantech, the first being the more popular, and is driven by telecommunications carrier Sprint.  The features are packaged under a family-oriented cellphone service that appeals to parents as much as to kids.

The Lure for Kids

Kids find the LG handset particularly fancy, unlike other kids’ cellphones that seem amateurish.  They are happy to find that the phones do not have.  It is a camera phone with a colored screen similar to mom’s or dad’s. It also allows for customization of wallpapers and ring tones which are downloadable from the Vault Disney as well as games.

You’re In Control

Signing up for the service allows families to take home a parent phone and a child phone.  The parent phone acts as a server that lets you controls the spending limits on a child phone using the Family Center menu.  Kids cellphones Disney allows you to set the amount of voice minutes, text messages, and downloads that your child can spend in a month.

The service alerts both you and your child when spending limits are reached, letting you adjust allowances in an instant. One catch though is that you cannot set your child’s text messaging to zero.

You also have the power to control your child’s incoming calls from and outgoing calls to specific numbers.  By default, Disney lists 900 prohibited numbers but you can customize the list by adding 20 more numbers at the Disney website.

Moreover, you set the hours of the day and the days of the week that your child can use the phone.

Tracking Your Kid is Easy

If you’re one of the many parents whose primary interest is locating your kid, you’re just in luck with the kids cellphones Disney.  Its GSM feature accurately locates your kid’s whereabouts as closely as within 50 yards.  And all this happens under your kid’s nose.

Keeping Constant Communication

Your parent phone also lets you to set numbers that will always be allowed access in the child phone, no matter what restrictions you set.  In addition to these, the child phone is always allowed access to 911 as well as to other numbers included in your family plan.

There are a dozen message templates that you and your kid can easily exchange just by tapping two keys. Or you can easily key in your own messages. GP

   
   

Posted in Kids Cell Phones  on October 15, 2008 - 12:37 pm by admin  |

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