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My kid is getting annoying with asking for a cell phone. She's 12. All the other kids do, in fact, have a cell phone. If we went any particular route, it would be a flip phone or something at best, but I am familiar with modding, so that is an option (say, to get a solid phone and then mod to lock-down/remove bloat).

Curious what others out there have done.

Edit: TMobile, would rather not get any "new" or phones on a loan/prepurchase. IMHO, she's not getting one at least until she's 13...

My kid is getting annoying with asking for a cell phone. She's 12. All the other kids do, in fact, have a cell phone. If we went any particular route, it would be a flip phone or something at best, but I am familiar with modding, so that is an option (say, to get a solid phone and then mod to lock-down/remove bloat). Curious what others out there have done. Edit: TMobile, would rather not get any "new" or phones on a loan/prepurchase. IMHO, she's not getting one at least until she's 13...

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[–] • 2 pts

It would be a dumb phone, flip phone with nothing but SMS and cellular. We'll probably just continue the "nope" for a few more years at least.

As for network, I run homebrewed pfSense with their wifi network already filtering out jewTube and the typical stuff; porn, malware, etc.

[–] • 2 pts

Good. You already know most if not everything I mentioned already.

Keep it up!