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fromBusiness Insider
3 days ago

I gave my 8-year-old a landline. It has parental controls, but gives him the freedom he craved.

For years, my 8-year-old son has been asking for a phone. I'm sure he likes the idea of being social and playing games, but he also loves talking. Copper FaceTimes with friends on my phone (calling their Mom's phone) and regularly calls his grandparents to check in. We wanted to give him an age-appropriate amount of freedom and stumbled across a landline-esque phone for kids, the Tin Can.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Tin Can 'landline' for kids is so popular it crashed on Christmas. Here's what's next for the company.

Tin Can, a popular corded 'landline' for kids, suffered a massive Christmas Day service overload (100x increase), causing outages, degraded call quality, and waiving fees.
Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

XploraOne by HMD is a hybrid phone for kids

HMD and Xplora launched XploraOne, a kid-focused hybrid phone offering calling, messaging, extensive parental controls, no third-party apps, cameras, physical SIM, and a headphone jack.
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