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Review: kajeet mobile phone service for kids
If you have a tween or teen, I'm sure discussions about a cell phone have come up at your house. The kajeet phone is a great option. It is a pay-as-you-go cell phone. That means no contracts, no activation or cancellation fees. Tweens want regular feature-rich cell phones that do not look like toys. kajeet uses phones that are already on the market, and wireless network services are provided on the Nationwide Sprint PCS Network. When you log into kajeet online, you can access the kajeet Configurator. Each phone comes with virtual wallets - one for parents and one for kids. Families can decide together who pays for what. It's also a way to make sure calls to and from parents can always get through, even when kids have used up their "wallets". The TimeManager allows kids and their parents to set up times when the phone can be used and when it can't. This means the phone will ring only when it's supposed to, not during school for example. With ContactManager, you can set up who can or can't call or text the phone. You can set it up to always allow calls or texts, only allow during certain times, or block numbers completely. kajeet automatically blocks all calls to 1-900 and 1-976 numbers so you don't have to worry about your child making inappropriate calls. FeatureManager allows you to turn on and off extra features for the phone: picture messaging, web browsing, downloads, and IM. Again, you can access this online. Kids can customize their phone to their own style with ringtones, wallpapers, applications and games. Google Maps is preloaded on the phone, as well as some free ringtones and wallpapers. Others are available to download for a fee. My 12 year old and 9 year old both tried this. My 12 year old had no problem navigating the menus. My 9 year old needed a little help at first, but managed to find a ringtone she liked and downloaded it without help. Besides the daily access fee of 35¢, like other pay-as-you-go cell phone plans, you pay by the minute with the kajeet phone. It is 10¢ a minute to talk, 5¢ per text message (in and out), 25¢ for picture messaging (sent and received). Unlimited Mobile AIM is also available for $6.99 a month. I think this is a great way to teach kids how to save and spend money. For my kids, I would make sure the parent wallet always had money in it, so we could always call each other. I would also start with a certain amount in the kid's wallet each month, and it would be up to them how to spend it, whether that be calls or texts to friends, downloading ringtones, wallpapers, games, or other applications. When the money is gone, they either need to wait until next month or use their own money. I think that it would be a great way to teach them the value of money. If you want "this", then you can't have as much of "that". They could learn to make good decisions, all while still having a cool cell phone Unfortunately we are locked into a 2 year contract that was just started this summer, so we can't really switch our 12-year-old, but when that contract is up we plan to switch her to a kajeet phone, which will cost less than having an extra phone on our family plan and also won't use up our minutes.
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Hello, Teresa,
Thanks for the kind words about kajeet. I'm a father of two myself (12 y.o. boy and a 9 y.o. girl) and we've worked really hard to shape powerful mobile technology into a thoughtful service that kids love and parents feel comfortable with. We focused on making kajeet affordable and to help parents avoid contracts, long-term commitments and big surprise bills. We're the only pre-paid phone you can fully customize on the Internet in real time. All the folks at kajeet (many of whom are parents, too) read comments like yours and it really encourages them. Thank you.
Best regards,
--Daniel Neal, CEO/founder of kajeet
kajeet is new emerging technology
Hi,
really its great mobile technology. i hope it will grow very fast.
Very Innovative
Is this available in any place or just in your area? Never heard of anything like this in our place. This one is really amazing and will sure help parents monitor their children.
Completely Refreshing Technology
Am so amazed learning about the features of this phone..! its a refreshingly new mobile technology..! please let me know where can I find this model..?
KAJEET SUCKS!
I thought Kajeet would be great as a first phone service for my daughter, because of the parental controls, as well as the pre-pay option. I can logon and see everything going on her account, but I can do that with any phone service provider.
Parental controls are available on other service providers.
As if it werent bad enough that they nickel dimed me to death after we bought the phone, when we got on a family plan elsewhere, they gave us such a hassle porting the number.
They took over two weeks, then wouldnt complete the port because the account was out of money!! TOYA wanted me to replenish the account with the minimum $10 bucks...non-refundable by the way.
Agreed Kajeet Sucks Dont waste your time and money
I thought this would be a great service also. What I found was a really poorly run company with lousy customer service. It started with the shipping of the phone right to the end when it did not work as advertised. Every time I called for help, from where is my shipment, how come the phone number in the block lists is still working/not working or how come the device isn't being found with the GPS location service, I got the same response. Give it 24 hours. Really? Every time I add a number to the allow/block list I have to wait 24 hours for it to work? You mean I paid $17 for next day shipping but I need to wait another 24 hours? BTW it took 56 hours to be delivered.
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We have loved the kajeet service. I think people misunderstand how it actually works though and that might be why they are disappointed. You HAVE to choose a service plan - don't just add money to the kids accounts. When you choose a service plan, for example the $14.99 plan, that gets you 60 talk minutes and unlimited texting. If you just add $15 dollars to the account without choosing a specific plan you are paying .32cents a day no matter what - even if the phone is off plus .10cents per call/text. That eats the $15 dollars up really quick!
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Kajeet has absolutely the best parental controls on the market today. The newly designed parental controls is extremely user friendly. Popular phones at Kajeet includes: LG Rumor, LG Rumor 2, Sanyo 2700, Sanyo Katana, Sanyo Katana II, Samsung m300, LG 125. Kajeet certified refurbished on select phones. Phones start at $24.99 and comes with a 30 day satisfaction guarantee.
Link to Kajeet's demo video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhRUdZzfSY0
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