Cell Phones for Children

As you probably already know, Japan’s gadget design trends are the most amazing. You can find there colorful designs with various shapes, some with Swarovski crystals encrusted and even gold phones with diamonds. Pink cell phones are on the top positions in sales and the representative brand is the famous Hello Kitty loved even by adults.

If you are not in Asia and need to find cell phones for children it’s a little bit hard. I can tell you this because I also tried to find at least a few models to choose from but all I’ve found were 3 old phones from 2005, and they didn’t even look cool enough for a child to like it.
Fortunately I’ve discovered at ThinkGeek.com.
2 impressively small cell phones for adults but because of their dimensions I could recommend them as cell phones for children too. Besides these, they provide the latest technologies such as touchscreen and this is a very important aspect if we talk about easy of use and ergonomics if you like.

The first one was announced in a recent press release and it is called the Neon 7 Mini Touchscreen Cell Phone, and when they say it’s a mini, believe me, it’s among the smallest cell phones I’ve seen.
Imagine holding in your hand a 95 X 42 X 11 mm GSM handset with an extremely slim design measuring just 11 mm thick, but with features like touch-sensitive 1.9-inch TFT LCD display of 65K colors, heat sensitive keys, MP3/MP4 player for music and videos, stereo Bluetooth, email support, virtual on-screen full keyboard, a talking menu with intelligent call alert, meaning the phone tells you who is calling by reading the incoming number out loud thanks to the speech synthesis technology, and hand writing recognition. This sounds too much! All these in a tiny mobile phone!
And if I tell you that it integrates also a 1.3MP CMOS camera with video recorder and webcam functionalities what would you say?

The Neon 7 Mini Touchscreen Cell Phone from ThinkGeek.com has extended T-Flash a lot support, Speakerphone, image editor, ringtone composer, WAP, organizer, world clock, calendar, to-do list, stop watch, phonebook and even health checker!! So you child would have various stuff to play with but maybe too much for his/her needs!

At just $199.99 the bar phone comes with an ear bud headset, 2 batteries, the AC travel charger, the USB cable, 2 styluses and the manual.

The other cell phone for children I want to show you is the Mini Boombox GSM Cell Phone available at a price of $149.99 at the same ThinkGeek.com online store.
This 3.5 x 1.3 x 0.8 inches model has a sliding keypad and comes in white. It looks cool and besides that it features MP3 player, tri-band support, GPRS, amplified speakers, SMS group, video player, WAP browser, Speakerphone, voice synthesis technology like the previously described cell phone, 256MB internal memory expandable up to 2GB, USB connectivity, a built-in 1.3MP CMOS camera with camcorder function, video recorder, and sports a 1.5-inch TFT LCD display of 65K colors.
Same as the Neon 7 Mini Touchscreen Cell Phone, it comes with 2 Li-Ion batteries, travel AC charger, stereo headset, USB cable and the user manual.