‘Safe’ mobile phones for kids

At first glance the Kyocera mamorino ’safe’ children’s mobile phone seems like an ingenious idea. Not because they’d be really useful if your little one got lost in the playground (yes, that’s very unlikely because they’re NEVER out of earshot for even a second and, let’s face it, kids old enough to be out of earshot wouldn’t want one of these plastic things) – but because babies are obsessed with dribbling on, snotting on, chewing on and generally trying to swallow shiny mobile phones. Phones, and the TV remote.

But then it dawned on me that giving a baby a phone that looks like a toy (bearing in mind they have a million toys already) won’t stop them wanting to slurp on yours.

Still, they do have “location tracking and emergency alert features that lets you know where your kid is in addition to offering restrictions such as enabling the phone to place outgoing calls and texts to pre-programmed contacts”.

Kyocera mamorino cellphone for kids (via Ubergizmo)