Kids phone, Firefly options

"Joe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I want a phone for my 10 year old. Basically I want to be able to get the
>kid on the phone when I want him and give him the ability to call me or his
>mother. I do not want to give him games, text messaging, the ability to
>call friends or anything else. The firefly does this but the only problem
>is price which they will not come off of at all.
> So I ask, can you have access restricted on a plain ole cheap phone.
> Joe

For kids that are not as responsible as adults, Disney may have a good
solution. Apparently they can restrict calls by minutes, times of day and
'geo-fencing'. http://disneymobile.go.com

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Joe wrote:
> I want a phone for my 10 year old. Basically I want to be able to get the
> kid on the phone when I want him and give him the ability to call me or his
> mother. I do not want to give him games, text messaging, the ability to call
> friends or anything else. The firefly does this but the only problem is
> price which they will not come off of at all.
> So I ask, can you have access restricted on a plain ole cheap phone.

Also look at the LG VX1000-MIGO. You could activate it on PagePlus, and
it'd only cost about $3/month for service, but the handset is very
expensive if not purchased with activation.

You could take an old phone, program in the numbers you want to hot keys
(i.e. 1=Home, 2=Mom Cell, 3=Dad Cell) then physically do something to
the other keys to prevent them from operating.

At 10 years old, I'd get the kid a prepaid phone on one of the MVNO
operators (PagePlus is the best), and buy the minimum number of minutes.

At 10, they are old enough to understand that the phone is for urgent
use only, and not a toy to use to gab with their friends. At least
that's been my experience with my 12 y.o. who had a phone at 10 y.o..