Pinwheel Slim 5 Kids Smartphone (Age 8-18) | Built-in Parent Management | 1,200+ Vetted Apps with Child Safety Ratings | No Social Media | Unlocked for Most Cell Carriers | No Activation Fees

So when ordering this item, I had a choice between 3 or 6 months. I chose 3 months, but when this piece of garbage came it would not activate without me putting in a credit card. No thanks ... packing it up and RETURN TO SENDER.

Do not second guess yourself. A very safe phone monitored by us the parents. This is no internet so zero access to the web, perfect. My daughter has to ask to add contacts, we choose, and you can monitor the testing. Quality phone, large screen great games included.

Phone lasted less than 1 years, don't waste your money

This phone while certainly being safe for kids as a communication device is beyond impossible to use even when allowed apps are installed. They don't show up. Every time my kid opens his phone and wants to use something as simple as the alarm clock app, we get a huge notice saying the action is not allowed and to contact IT. So, I go into the parental dashboard online, make sure every bloody box is checked, and still nothing. It is constantly crashing. The phone service is unreliable. It's overpriced Samsung garbage that does not do what it says it can do. If the allowed installed apps would just work (learning apps!!!!) and if the phone service would stop dropping, I'd not be actively searching for a new phone. This thing comes across as the answer to your prayers as a parent, but the usability is utterly dismal. Cannot recommend.

Pinwheel is the perfect phone for my 8 and 10 year olds. I wasn't ready to let them have access to social media and wanted to avoid internet browsing, so this was the perfect solution. I love that I can monitor any texts or calls remotely so I don't have to take their phones and feel like I'm snooping on them! They love them!

We have been using Pinwheel for about 3 weeks now, and I must say that their service is AMAZING.As a parent, I feel comfortable finally, that my child is safe from whatever is out there, while still having the tools she needs on a daily basis to communicate with us and do the things she needs to do.We started with a Gabb watch but it had many issues, what with the flimsy very breakable watch, the glitchy service issues, and the fact that we couldn't text anything but 20 pre-written small phrases or words was very frustrating. We looked into getting the Gabb phone but weren't excited about having anyone be able to call our child, didn't know if the service would be any better than the watch (we had days where the watch wouldn't go online, so we didn't know where our child was, the phone feature wouldn't work or would be very spotty). Also, another issue was the watch would lose power very quickly.So if you're like us and need something that just WORKS and does what it says it's going to do, this is the service you want.Just a small note that it does sometimes take forever to get things done, as in actually getting the phone shipped (even from Amazon), but with all things that are worth anything, it's worth the wait!!

Pinwheel shipped the phone and accessories, but did not ship the simcard or access code for the monitoring plan I paid for. It's been 10 days. The phone number for customer service just puts you on hold for 5 minutes and then asks you to leave a voice mail. The "live" chat on the website does not have a live person monitoring it. So, good luck if you get this phone. If something goes wrong you won't be able to get anyone to help you with it.

Don’t buy it!!! I purchased a Pinwheel as the first phone for my middle school son. It’s unreliable, over-priced and never worked correctly. Apps didn’t load, most of the time after unlocking it wouldn’t bring up the Home Screen and would crash.There’s no tech support. I’ve owned several Android phones it shouldn’t be this hard!