LG To Target Parents with Phone for Kids
People want this crap
I have actually had multiple people come in asking about the "Firefly", I think that kids dont need sell phones when they are infants. Lets wait till they get to be at least 14 before we get them one.
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I'm in sales in a VZW corporate store, and I too have had people coming in wanting something like this. They've seen the SunCom commercials for the Firefly, and want one for thier kids. However, I had one dude tell me the other day that he's not willing to change carriers just to get one- especially to SunCom. Even if you had one with them, there's hardly any signal to pick up! Guess he'll be happy if we start to carry these little monsters.
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I agree that kids shouldn't need cell phones until they are in their late teens, but these days (especially in the bigger cities) kids need a way to reach parents or 911 in case of emergencies. I live in a small town and my kids are with me or a competant adult at all times, so they don't need one, but for parents that don't have this option this is a great idea.
10 years ago this would have been the most ridiculous idea in the world. Don't you wish we could go back to those days.
10 years ago this would have been the most ridiculous idea in the world. Don't you wish we could go back to those days.
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I think that the firfly and all that is a good idea because all these kids are getting kid napped and what not. Where I live isn't a very safe community and with this option they can actually walk down the street and feel safe with a phone knowing they can reach 911 ASAP
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Living in a bad area probably means their parents havent payed their bill so the phone is probably shut off anyways. 🤣
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I am 14, and would laugh in my dads face if he got me this pice of junk, i have had a REAL cell phone since i was 11, instead of wasteing your money on this toy get your kids a GO PHONE 😁
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seriously, u would be as red-assed as a bastard child if u talk back like that @ 11yrs old
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What a brat! Laugh at your Dad for getting you a phone? Go get a job mowing lawns and pay for it yourself! Kids today are spoiled rotten!
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exsuse me? who do you think you are talking to? what do you think because Im 14 I need a cell phone in the shaped of a retarted baby toy? Oh and FYI we hire people to mow the lawn 😉
and just to make you all jealous, I just got the sony ericsson s710a 😁
and just to make you all jealous, I just got the sony ericsson s710a 😁
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vinnyfrancisco said:
I am 14, and would laugh in my dads face if he got me this pice of junk, i have had a REAL cell phone since i was 11, instead of wasteing your money on this toy get your kids a GO PHONE 😁
Spoiled much?
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thank you stout some one who knows where Im coming from. geeze im not that spoiled, i have a cell phone, not a big deal
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jerk offs like me are the ones going to school every day getting an education jerk offs like me are the ones going to collage in a few years jerk offs like me are the ones who have parents who put there kids first I highly doubt Im going to get shot.
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Yeahup and people like me go to school everyday & have to be around gang violence & has to be around where a little girl got shot. Im not some white HICK that has all this money now lets get that straight
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Well, you certainly are not going to pass English, that's for sure. Oh, by the way, a formal college education is much better than a cut and past collage education.
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I went to high school in rich white suburbia 3 years ago, and its HILARIOUS the way all these rich white kids have ended up 20 years old with 2 kids, no father, addicted to heroin (more than 1 person I used to know). It's great, cuz while their in high school with illusions of getting to college, living off their Daddies' checkbook, they treat the lower classes like dirt. but then they hit the real world without their daddy to protect them and they become what they hate.
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wow you guys are something.
A.) I'm not a hick-born and raised in jersey
B.)I take my education very seriously
C.)Not every rich white boy is a drug addict
D.)I don't get things when ever i want i need to earn it, as hilarious as it sounds YES! even rich white boys earn there cell phones. 😳
you all are mean, not if you excuse me I'm going to go use daddy checkbook to buy the Gucci shades I was checking out.
KIDDING,..god.
A.) I'm not a hick-born and raised in jersey
B.)I take my education very seriously
C.)Not every rich white boy is a drug addict
D.)I don't get things when ever i want i need to earn it, as hilarious as it sounds YES! even rich white boys earn there cell phones. 😳
you all are mean, not if you excuse me I'm going to go use daddy checkbook to buy the Gucci shades I was checking out.
KIDDING,..god.
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yeah... because tons of kids get kidnapped. its the same amount if not less as always... just more media exposure. more people = more crime. that doesnt mean a bigger percentage, just more crime comes along with a higher populous
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I actually love the idea of cell phones. Before they came out I couldn't stand the idea of having to stay at home to wait for a phone call. That concept for me or excuse for anyone else is a thing of the past and for me it is by far very liberating. In NYC kids start in 5th grade being allowed to take public transportation on their own to school, so that is around 10. I think at that point it is good for your kid to have a phone, when they start being able to walk, ride their bike or take public transportation on their own to school or someone else's house, etc. Admittedly when I was a kid I probably would not have liked the idea of my parents being able to contact me all the time. On the other hand if that option would have set them ...
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wonder how much they will go for and what the contract will cost a month for how many minutes?
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I'd think it would be part of the ol' family plan. If not, same kind of pricing structure that VZW uses, maybe it would be offered as a pre-pay phone. It does look to be a low feature phone, no camera, no color screen, etc.
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bulldude said:
It does look to be a low feature phone, no camera, no color screen, etc.
No way!?! What was your first clue? TRY LOOKING AT THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE!!
LG To Target Parents with Phone for Kids
baka.
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DDA said:bulldude said:
It does look to be a low feature phone, no camera, no color screen, etc.
No way!?! What was your first clue? TRY LOOKING AT THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE!!
LG To Target Parents with Phone for Kids
baka.
Honto ni! 😛
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most kids don't need dumbed down phones,they usually have to show their parents how to use their cell phones, im not sure about all phones but a lot of them can be set to only call certain numbers and recieve calls from certain numbers, and is protected by a password, how is that any different than what these other phones are?
I can understand why there is such a demand for younger kids to have cell phones though, a lot of people i know including whole families have ditched their land line completely for cell service, so everyone in a family needs their own cell phone, unless they are always with someone who does, its not a bad Idea just a new idea and I can see a lot of people moving twards this in the near future.
I can understand why there is such a demand for younger kids to have cell phones though, a lot of people i know including whole families have ditched their land line completely for cell service, so everyone in a family needs their own cell phone, unless they are always with someone who does, its not a bad Idea just a new idea and I can see a lot of people moving twards this in the near future.
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When people come in for a cell phone for a 9 year old because they canceled school and she is standing out at the road for 2 hours wondering where the bus is....yeah I think it can be a great idea.
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I agree, there is a valid need to have communication with your children, they are after all still members of people's families and families spend a lot of time communicating with each other.
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rj753 said:
When people come in for a cell phone for a 9 year old because they canceled school and she is standing out at the road for 2 hours wondering where the bus is....yeah I think it can be a great idea.
Um...hello??? Usually school is only cancelled if there is really a need to cancel it. (majority of the time being weather related reasons) School closings are usually ALWAYS announced ahead of time. Just watch the news at night....so if a kid is standing outside in the morning, waiting for a bus, does this kid need a cell phone? No, I think the kid needs smarter parents. Also, everybody keeps saying that cell phones will help in case the kid is kidnapped....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....do you REALLY...
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HELLO know kids do have to rely on my moms money because they go to school and dont have time for a job jerk.
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Maybe you should spend a little more time in English class talking notes, not playing with your cell phone, brat.
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Kainoa said:
HELLO know kids do have to rely on my moms money because they go to school and dont have time for a job jerk.
Up to high school, that excuse works. If a person can't take the time to work AND go to college however....that's just cuz they still got their fingers too far in mommy and daddy's pockets.
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wfine81 said:
I have actually had multiple people come in asking about the "Firefly", I think that kids dont need sell phones when they are infants. Lets wait till they get to be at least 14 before we get them one.
Trendy, rich schmucks absolutely LOVE this stuff for their kids. Me? I wouldn't buy this for my kid if he/she were on fire.
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yeah and imagine the bitching you would hear, "Help mom, im on fire! Somebody put me out! Help Help!"
They just never stop. Damn kids.
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They just never stop. Damn kids.
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But I didnt have a cell phone till I turned 18 and could put it in my own name, plus when I was 11 or 14 NOBODY had cell phones except adults who used them for business.
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wfine81 said:
But I didnt have a cell phone till I turned 18 and could put it in my own name, plus when I was 11 or 14 NOBODY had cell phones except adults who used them for business.
Ah, the golden years...where nary a Nextel "chirp" was heard. Sniff. I miss those days.
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