Phone for 7 year old

Morty_007

you just need to be really careful because internet access is dead simple on most phones these days...and expensive if you don't have a bundle of minutes. I do think 7 is too young for a phone...if all his friend were getting tattoos or going away on holiday alone would you let him?
*sigh* having said that the LG cookie is a nice phone. Its going to get battered very quickly though. It's not made of particularly tough stuff in my experience. Once dropped it marks and dents. INSURE it so that if it goes wrong it's not been an expensive venture.

glider3560

No offence intended to the OP, but times must have changed since I was 7. I would've been asking for things like football stickers, videos and chocolate. In fact, I probably only used a telephone on my own three or four times when I was 7 which were only to call relatives to thank for birthday gifts.

glider3560

Morty_007 wrote: »

INSURE it so that if it goes wrong it's not been an expensive venture.

OP says it costs £25 - hardly worth insuring.

jamespir

what does a 7 year old need a mobile for


whats wrong with a basic 99p one ( they had some nokia or alcatels on orange )

jayme1

I am 100% certain that mobiles are not very good to use (for phone calls) at head level or be kept on the body for any child, it is because they have very thin skull bone compared to adults.
I would give very good odds that his friends with mobiles phones if they use them for calls at the ear for any regular period of time (like a couple of times a day) they suffer some form of hearing loss.

this isn't about more money than sense it is about common sense, does he really need a microwave emitting phone, does he actually need to use a phone? surely getting a 2nd hand ipod touch would be a much better option, after all it is an iphone without the phone

bevvy

I'd say go for that one, I have a lg cookie (different model) but my 9 year old daughter loves using it. At £25 seems a good deal for a 7 year old. Don't know what network you are looking at but we are all on o2 and I have 'family bolt on' takes £7.50 off my calltime each month and myself and 4 other members has free unlimited calls and texts to each other so I don't top my daughters phone up any longer, she is able to phone/text myself and the others in the group and I don't have to worry about her wasting all her calltime phoning her friends, just an idea if you were worried about him using all his credit up.

Liz3yy

At 7 years old he shouldn't be out anywhere on his own, and therefore doesn't need a mobile phone.

McCreary

You need to think about the safety implications of this. Why does your child need a mobile phone? If it's because their friends have one then that isn't a good enough reason.

They will have unfiltered and unmonitored internet access as well as the ability to CALL people. Seven year olds calling people - who are they going to call and why? I'd also worry about young children using mobiles to call emergency services and [premium] numbers they see on television.

Think very carefully about this and I urge you to reconsider!

I am also appalled that parents have bought seven year olds iPhones. An iPod I can understand but not an iPhone.

delain

Another vote for not giving a 7 year old a mobile phone. Are you nuts?!

On a practical note every user of any LG phone (myself included) have found them to be a heap of crap, from the viewty, to the crystal to the cookie. So at least it will be broken before he does too much damage to his brain

LillythePink

I also dont agree with a phone for a 7 year old - my dd is almost 11 and she is not having one either - she does not need it.

Saying that, it's good that you're not getting an iphone - they are rubbish in my opinion and probably the worst phone I have had in a long time.

My dd also wanted an ipod touch (as it's like an ipone but not a phone...her words) but I think she's too young for that as well - this is probably more down to her than anything - I don't think that she would respect and look after it enough for my liking!