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Which mobile phone for 10 year old dd

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kittenfun · 14/01/2019 21:55

She currently uses my iphone mostly for you tube
I am due to upgrade on fri don't want her using my new phone
Recycling my old phone

Was think of IPhone se or IPhone 6s

IPhone se £15 a month with Tesco
IPhone 6s £17 a mnth

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Canshopwillshop · 18/01/2019 09:24

Ooh it’s actually a lovely looking phone! I was imagining the old style Nokia. As you say the reviews are good too. The only thing is that the £8.50 tariff only includes 500mb if data which is not much at all unless your DD is going to be connected to WiFi most of the time.

Canshopwillshop · 18/01/2019 09:29

Or sticking to 500mb might be a good way of restricting her usage a bit.

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 09:29

Yes mostly WiFi

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 09:29

Looks good doesn't it

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Biologifemini · 18/01/2019 09:32

4 hours per days or week?
If it is per day you need to seriously think about how bad this is for her eyes and what nonsense she is looking at.

Leafy2018 · 18/01/2019 10:00

Having been through this recently with our dd, 11, the best advice I can offer is - give her the phone as she sets off to school and ask for it to be returned as soon as she gets in. And of course have max parental controls at this age. We started off with all the parental controls including screen time limits but our daughter having control over when and where the phone was used. This was not the answer. We actually relaxed the screen time limit a bit and then only gave her the phone when necessary. The amount of angst this would have saved us if we had done this to begin with is unbelievable. It's much less intrusive into family time and our daughter seems happy with this arrangement. If she wants to text her friends she asks whether she can use her phone. It's not eating into homework time and serving as a distraction. I would also highly advise against WhatsApp. This is absolute poison at secondary school - at least in our experience. Too many group chats - people my daughter didn't know were messaging her (it's now a rule that she doesn't take part in group chats with people she doesn't know.) It's ALWAYS beeping. Where as normal messenger just doesn't have the same level of activity. Good luck!

Leafy2018 · 18/01/2019 10:02

4 hours a day??? Shock

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 10:58

IPhone 6s £17 a mnth
Nokia 3.1 £8.50 a mnth

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Kokeshi123 · 18/01/2019 12:44

Did the OP actually say that her daughter is using or is going to be using Youtube for four hours a day?

RiverTam · 18/01/2019 12:46

OP said upthread 4 hours a day and that her DD mainly uses it for YouTube.

That is not a habit I would facilitate, and certainly not one I would pay for.

Stompythedinosaur · 18/01/2019 13:30

Some of the responses on the thread have been horrible!

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 14:09

They have river

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 14:09

Sorry they have stomps

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MissWimpyDimple · 18/01/2019 17:29

Oh the outrage!

DD is 12 and has had her own iPhone since her 11th birthday. Before that she had her grans old iPhones.

Great for me as with family sharing I can track her.

Pretty much all her friends have iPhones. 🤷🏻‍♀️

MissWimpyDimple · 18/01/2019 17:32

I should add - she has the phone on the basis that she knows I have full access to it. I have a check through the group chats regularly and she has to ask permission through family sharing to get any apps.

She has no social media other than WhatsApp which I have allowed her to have as her dad has an android phone so doesn't have iMessage.

imip · 18/01/2019 17:51

She uses the phone 4 hours a day? Every day? She is 9? Did I read all that correctly?

Dd is 12 at secondary. She’s used apps for homework. They are on the family computer. I don’t want them in the phone - screens far to small to be doing homework. All in the family computer (we have a couple).

CandyPuff · 18/01/2019 17:54

Well done imip you are clearly far superior

Canshopwillshop · 18/01/2019 17:56

imip - I’m not sure that actually answers the OP’s original question about which phone she should get for her DD ..

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 19:40

Candy - shall I get Nokia 3. 1?

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 20:53

Going for Nokia 3.1

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Wallington · 18/01/2019 21:43

If you get the Nokia 3.1 I'd buy it outright and get a PAYG sim. It's not an expensive handset so I din't see the point of having it on a contract. Argos have it for £120 sim free.

Personally I'd go for a 6S or SE on a 2 year contract. What model is the iPhone you have that you're going to sell? It might work out cheaper to give it to your dd and get a PAYG sim.

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 21:45

Nokia 3.1 only £8.50 a mnth with Tesco

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 21:46

Nokia 3.1 a good phone then

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Wallington · 18/01/2019 21:54

I'd check with your dd, mine is 11, all her friends have iPhones so she would only want an iPhone. I also like that I can check where she is.

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kittenfun · 18/01/2019 22:04

Mine is 10 tomorrow she won't be taking it to school

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