I can buy my kid a very cheap android phone and lock it down to only run a couple of select apps. The advantage of this is that it is as smart or dumb as I all

I can buy my kid a very cheap android phone and lock it down to only run a couple of select apps. The advantage of this is that it is as smart or dumb as I allow it to be. Now that she is a little older (8th grade) I've slowly increased the allowed apps and screen time. She is able to do really useful things with it. So in short: you can make a smart phone dumb, but you can't make a dumb phone smart.