LAS VEGAS—Kids love smartphones, and parents love knowing where their kids are. The Kurio Phone is for both of them.
Techno Source and KD Interactive already makes a line of Kurio kid-friendly Android tablets, with tight parental controls over what kids can access on the Internet and what apps they can use. The Kurio Phone, making its debut at CES 2014, keeps all those features, but adds phone-specific ones too.
The Kurio Phone can alert you when your kid's phone has a low battery, for example—no more excuses about the phone running out of juice. It's got GPS, so it can notify you when your child ventures beyond a geofenced area, and parents can geolocate their kids anytime.
Contact management means kids can add contacts to the phone, but they can't access them until the parent approves. And of course parents can set tight limits on when and how often kids can use the phone and texting—as well as designate five primary contacts that aren't subject to those restrictions.
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