Best Cell Phones for Kids 2014

Last year we wrote about some ideas for affordable and useful cell phones for kids. Here's a good update from Farnoosh Torabi. She says most US parents buy their child's first phone when they turn 12. How times have changed, but of course even younger kids now have them as a security measure. An important point of this video is to consider what uses your children will have for their phone. It seems that it is NOT talking on them! It pays to shop around. Even "pay as you go" phones for sale on Amazon.com vary from $6.99 for the LG 620G Prepaid Phone to $81.99 for the Samsung Illusion Prepaid Android Phone. Here are two "pay as you go" phones that are in the middle price range: