I'm completely ignorant of "Gabb" phones. I'll have to investigate. Also, I should probably add that while I'm a parent my kids are now grown so my opinions on this are dated. They all have full fledged smartphones at this point... and jobs... and lives. LOL
iN8sWoRLd
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as a parent, I would say what matters is geo-location and text to coordinate pick-up or plans. there is no need for younger kids to have a full fledged phone if one could be developed that serves those functions. I'm thinking 90s flip phones with GPS. It really sounds like a gold mine for some company to supply these limited devices given the market for them.
of course the bigger story here is that there is a LITE version of CNN on which uBlock and Privacy Badger find nothing to block!
Yeah I don't think I ever played it even once but I bought a bunch of packs back when. The instruction booklet that came with it had text that was so tiny I could barely read it even back then lol
Yes! I decided I needed this too lol
Middle Earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) - I know I have a bunch of this card actually lol
Angus McBride's Saruman used in the Middle Earth Roleplaying Game and I'm pretty sure was on a Tolkien Calendar. More Angus McBride art: https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/the-art-of-middle-earth-by-angus-mcbride-article/
thats fair, but of course its not the kids who are buying them.
Flip side is that kids are resourceful - given a dumbed down device that is only supposed to be able to do texting, it wouldn't be a month before every one of them was running custom firmware to connect to fully encrypted peer to peer social networks run by kids with audio alerts set at a frequency that adults can't hear and multiplayer games LOL.