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>Not giving teens/kids smartphones is a sensible start, but that's not realistic I don't know, I got by just fine with a dumbphone through high school (beginni
by spike021 9y ago
>Not giving teens/kids smartphones is a sensible start, but that's not realistic
I don't know, I got by just fine with a dumbphone through high school (beginning of the iPhone era). I don't think most teens need smartphones, honestly.
But we've crossed the point where that matters.
- jrs95 9y agoEven dumbphones can do MMS, though.
- ashark 9y agoNo MMS without a data plan. Unless something's changed.
- spike021 9y agoyep, this, at least when I was at that age.
- vthriller 9y agoAnd in schools in my area J2ME-capable phone were actually so ubiquitous I already was a heavy user of things like Opera Mini, BombusMod (Jabber client), and MidpSSH—all that a decade ago, when prices were given for each megabyte of data transfer. But that was me, others were just sharing music and pictures through Bluetooth amongst themselves most of the time.
- davisdude 9y ago> I don't think most teens need smartphones, honestly. In today's schools, some teachers plan activities where students use their smart phones for specific projects, so this is becoming increasingly harder to do.