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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 696529" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Does he have access to a phone if he needs to contact you from school or a friend's house? If yes, he doesn't need a phone.</p><p></p><p>If no, then get him a Cricket or Kajeet phone set to only dial numbers you pre-select. These phones have no internet or texting capability. They are just basic phones. You can even get ones that don't take pictures, which given young sir's interest in the nude body, is probably a good idea..</p><p></p><p>That said, I have a smart phone which I "had" to get last year when my old dumb phone finally died. I actually like it, though I don't take pictures or movies with it, or play games. I have gone on the internet with it and won't unless its desperation.</p><p></p><p>I use it as a phone, as an alarm clock, occasionally for chat, and my big extravagance, listening to music over wi=fi when I'm at home. I also like the built in calcuator which has solved my problem of killing calculators every few months.</p><p></p><p>At his age, he doesn't need smartphone functionality. I have a kindle fire 7" tablet that I WON from a promotion Amazon was doing I got it about a week ago. It's still sitting on my coffee table waiting for me to set it up. I'm not sure what I need a tablet for, but the price was right.</p><p></p><p>One thing you might want to try getting him, if finances allow, is an e-reader with no other functionality. I'm a fan of the Kindle Paperwhite. </p><p></p><p>It's still a screen, but it may get him reading, and you can control the account and put books on it for him to read.</p><p></p><p>THAT'S a screen he can have with him that won't get him in trouble with his friends' parents or his friends.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 696529, member: 1963"] Does he have access to a phone if he needs to contact you from school or a friend's house? If yes, he doesn't need a phone. If no, then get him a Cricket or Kajeet phone set to only dial numbers you pre-select. These phones have no internet or texting capability. They are just basic phones. You can even get ones that don't take pictures, which given young sir's interest in the nude body, is probably a good idea.. That said, I have a smart phone which I "had" to get last year when my old dumb phone finally died. I actually like it, though I don't take pictures or movies with it, or play games. I have gone on the internet with it and won't unless its desperation. I use it as a phone, as an alarm clock, occasionally for chat, and my big extravagance, listening to music over wi=fi when I'm at home. I also like the built in calcuator which has solved my problem of killing calculators every few months. At his age, he doesn't need smartphone functionality. I have a kindle fire 7" tablet that I WON from a promotion Amazon was doing I got it about a week ago. It's still sitting on my coffee table waiting for me to set it up. I'm not sure what I need a tablet for, but the price was right. One thing you might want to try getting him, if finances allow, is an e-reader with no other functionality. I'm a fan of the Kindle Paperwhite. It's still a screen, but it may get him reading, and you can control the account and put books on it for him to read. THAT'S a screen he can have with him that won't get him in trouble with his friends' parents or his friends. [/QUOTE]
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