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		<title>How To Get Free Or Low-cost Voip On Your Iphone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Business Phone Advisor</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s easy to acquire free or at least low-cost personal and business VoIP service on your iPhone &#8211; you just need the right apps! For a full review of personal and business VoIP applications for the iPhone, keep reading.

Fring VoIP iPhone App

Fring is the premier iPhone VoIP application. It&#8217;s available for free and lets you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s easy to acquire free or at least low-cost personal and business VoIP service on your iPhone &#8211; you just need the right apps! For a full review of personal and business VoIP applications for the iPhone, keep reading.
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<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.fring.com/download/iphone/">Fring</a> VoIP iPhone App
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<p>Fring is the premier iPhone VoIP application. It&#8217;s available for free and lets you make free VoIP calls with ohter fring members or use Skype to make Skype VOIP calls to other Skype users or simply through your Skype account.
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<p>It also keeps track of all of your instant messaging contacts from Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Twitter and more &#8211; making it easier to keep it all in one region, instead of jumping around from application to application.
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<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://icall.com/iphone/">iCall VoIP for iPhone</a>
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<p>iCall actually lets you seamlessly transfer an inbound cell phone call to the free VoIP system &#8211; lovely slick. However, your iPhone has to be connected to wifi for this to work &#8211; that said, it&#8217;s a ample way to save your minutes. Right now, calls within the US and Canada are $0.02/minute on the iCall system with a basic iCall epic
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<p>To make international calls, you need an iCall Pro account and you will be charged a miniature per-minute fee ($0.06/minute).
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<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.truphone.com/iphone/">Truphone VoIP iPhone App</a>
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<p>Truphone was the first company with a personal and business VoIP app in the iPhone app marketplace. Basically, users can earn Truphone VoIP calls anytime they&#8217;re connected to a wifi network (less than $0.01/minute for large-scale business VoIP users). However, you can&#8217;t connect to the Truphone Anywhere service, a program that lets people make overseas calls on Truphone at an incredibly cheap rate.
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<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://appshopper.com/social-networking/walkietalkie-voip">Walkie Talkie VoIP</a>
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<p>This is a really provocative app for use in a business VoIP environment. For example, a ample office, job site or work position (parks, malls, complexes, conference halls, etc) could save thousands on business VoIP costs by using a walkie talkie iPhone program that essentially connects users into groups &#8211; treating each phone like a walkie-talkie. The cost?  Just $1.99 per phone.</p>

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		<title>How To Be High Tech For Free</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Business Phone Advisor</dc:creator>
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You can release your inner geek for free. That&#8217;s right: FREE! Here are a few of the most helpful free high-tech tools you should be using:

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<p>You can release your inner geek for free. That&#8217;s right: FREE! Here are a few of the most helpful free high-tech tools you should be using:
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<p><strong>OpenOffice.org. </strong>Can&#8217;t afford Microsoft Office?  Don&#8217;t want to fork over a small fortune to get it?  No problem. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> is fully compliant with Office &#8211; and completely legal. That means you can read, write and edit in Office files like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and even Access. Put out by Sun MicroSystems, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>&#8217;s start source software is a power house. Why?  In addition to being compatible with Office, it also offers plump compliance with just about every other office-related software you&#8217;ll ever run across. You can even convert from one type of file to another. Need this kind of power to be mobile?  Not a problem &#8211; you can download a version to your thumb drive.
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<p><strong>Google Tools. </strong>An alternative to Microsoft Office and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> is <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin? service=writely&amp;passive=true&amp;continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&amp;ltmpl=WR_tmp_2_lfty&amp;nui=1&amp;utm_campaign=en&amp;utm_source=en-et-more&amp;utm_medium=more">Google Tools</a>. For the price of a Gmail tale (free), you can utilize the robust web-based office tools provided by the leader in Internet search. Need a spreadsheet or word processor?  Need to save and section your documents?  <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin? service=writely&amp;passive=true&amp;continue=http%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2F&amp;ltmpl=WR_tmp_2_lfty&amp;nui=1&amp;utm_campaign=en&amp;utm_source=en-et-more&amp;utm_medium=more">Google Tools</a> is a stout way to go!
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<p><strong>Blogging.</strong> There are over 80 million blogs (short for &#8220;web logs&#8221;) out there in cyberspace dealing with all sorts of topics. They started out as glorified online diaries, though. If you want to share your interests, your life or expertise, it won&#8217;t cost you a cent. Many companies like <a rel="nofollow" href="http://Blogger.com">Blogger.com</a> offer free blog accounts. In the past, it was quite common for family members living abroad to write a letter, photocopy it and then mail out those copies. Blogging eliminates that hassle, too. As long as they have your blog address, they can read your updates and see your pictures. (And if you sign up for Google <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.google.com/adsense/">Adsense</a>, you might even make a miniature money off your blog!)
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<p><strong>Podcasting.</strong> In addition to blogging, you can also relate your posts. Free software like <a rel="nofollow" href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> is available for free. Record your thoughts using the software, save it and upload it to your site or blog and POOF! You&#8217;ve got a podcast. Besides Audacity, you&#8217;ll need a computer microphone &#8211; but you probably have that already.
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<p>Being high-tech won&#8217;t cost you big money. Use the free, legal resources available and you&#8217;ll have the tools you need to succeed at work and at play.</p>

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		<title>Do Really Good Psychics Work On The Phone Lines Or On Internet Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can really respectable psychics be found working on the phone lines or on internet sites?

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can really respectable psychics be found working on the phone lines or on internet sites?
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<p>I&#8217;ve been a psychic all of my life. I was born into it. My mother, her mother, her mother and way on down the line were all psychics. And all of my sisters are too. And my daughter &#8211; and her daughter.
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<p>I can give you just about any type of reading you care to mention or choose. It all came to me &#8216;naturally&#8217;, I was born &#8216;with the gift&#8217; &#8211; I never had to study or learn anything. <br /> For a couple of decades I was a very busy psychic doing readings mostly from my own home or from a central site when I visited other towns. <br />However I one day found myself needing a change and went back to being a schoolteacher and started doing very few readings. I took about a 5 year demolish.
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<p>When I decided to get back into it I found that things had changed; quite drastically in fact.  For many decades psychics the likes of me, my sisters, my mother and only a very minute number of other psychic families basically had the &#8216;run of the city&#8217;. And we all managed to make a reasonable living using our inherited gifts.
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<p>What had happened during my &#8216;break&#8217; was that all of a sudden thousands of &#8216;everyday&#8217; people had started studying tarot cards and a whole other gamut of psychic and spiritual paraphernalia. And many of them had started doing readings. They often made claims about their lineage too &#8211; though from knowing the whereabouts of any psychic families none of us had ever before heard of these people. And because most of them were honing and developing their skill they charged very cheap rates.  In enact the explosion of all these &#8216;weekend psychics&#8217; &#8216;cheapened&#8217; the whole profession and an atmosphere of experimentation filled the psychic airways.
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<p>I had meanwhile lost touch with many of my clientele.   <br />I found it remarkably difficult in this unusual environment to make a decent living so I remained, primarily ensconced in my new occupation. Through being a single mother I only took on short contracts and there were often those in-between times where a supplemental income can be useful.   <br />So I decided to try the psychic phone lines and soon after that I discovered the life of being an internet psychic.
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<p>So &#8211; do really good psychics work on the phone lines and on the internet psychic sites?    <br />Well &#8211; my answer re the phone lines is, &#8220;yes &#8211; superior psychics do work the phone lines &#8211; but not for long&#8221;.
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<p>And also many psychics who I would once have not considered to be good work on them too. I reckon if you ring the average psychic phone line you might fluke it and score a really good one but the chances are high that the next time you want a reading they&#8217;ve gone.
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<p>You might ask why this is so.   <br />The first reason is that the pay is usually pretty damn lousy. <br /> Why, you might ask, is this so being that these phone services do tend to charge their clients an arm and a leg?  And then maybe they might also charge you your solar plexus as well.
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<p>Capitalism has taken over. I reflect it&#8217;s also called business enterprise.   <br />Being a psychic has become too difficult and expensive for those really good psychics of yesteryear. Now psychics find it hard to make a decent living and instead who now makes a lot of money from innocent clients seeking genuine and safe psychics is a large variety of &#8216;middlemen&#8217; and &#8217;scam psychics&#8217;.
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<p>The psychics on the phone lines may be lucky to get around 60 cents a minute when the client is paying $5.95 a min.   <br />The phone service provider usually takes 33%, then the service provider who programs and maintains machinery takes another 33%, then there&#8217;s the actual psychic business itself along with its admin, advertising and staff costs etc &#8211; leaving around 9% left to pay the actual psychics with. And 9% of the fee is not much for the actual psychic who&#8217;s doing the real work. <br /> And these companies tend to like a good and substantial range and choice of readers to offer clients so this greatly diminishes your minutes per hour averages. An average might be only 8 minutes an hour. You do the math. And you sit around playing solitaire or FreeCell for most the time. <br /> Many of these phone psychic companies can have high advertising budgets (cos advertising does cost an arm and a leg) and they often tend to have the worst psychics. Good psychics rarely stay. Some unethical companies even provide scripts that non psychics can exercise.
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<p>And the internet sites are not grand better where many of the same principles seem to apply. Though internet sites can treat the psychic even worse &#8211; as they are more distant in the sense they don&#8217;t have to actually talk to you regularly except thru the distancing that emails can provide. <br /> I dislike being an internet psychic more than I disapprove being a phone psychic. Between my sessional jobs my poverty drives me to the internet as an earning medium sometimes. No pun intended but I do try to avoid the internet psychic sites. And they tend to carve away around half of your earned fees.
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<p>People may balk when they see the fees charged by internet psychics. But &#8211; many free minutes are spent chatting to regular or potential clients and you are lucky if you can score a couple of decent readings per day.   <br />Why do you think that it is that the same internet psychics pop up at different sites all over the internet?  It is because it is actually very difficult to execute a decent living being an internet psychic. Only a handful or two succeed.   <br />Several sites say they test their psychics &#8211; but it is well known to be bullshit amongst us in the know. And if you punch the word &#8216;psychic&#8217; into a search engine it is highly unlikely that you will find one who has been working in the trade for more than 2 decades.
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<p>Something else has occurred as a consequence of the proliferation of phone and internet psychics. As these places charge by the minute people no longer tend to book in for what I would judge to be a &#8216;regular reading&#8217;.   <br />A regular reading is the type where you sit down with the psychic sharing a cuppa and a biscuit for a decent length of time and discuss many aspects of your life and the inter-relationship between different events occurring in your life is delved into in some depth.
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<p>These days clients want to talk to their psychic for only a couple of minutes or so and are often anxious that the psychic fit as much info as possible into the shortest amount of time. This pressured atmosphere is not conducive to good psychic conduct nor for having a decent reading. I&#8217;m sure there are many people who these days do not know what a good reading is anymore.   <br />Most clients who visit phone and internet psychics generally don&#8217;t want to know much at all. Most usually they want to know if their lover loves them, how that lover really feesl about them and when is their lover going to call them next.   <br />Most of the work of an internet psychic tends to revolve around this central theme.    <br />And mostly the truth is that if you are concerned and insecure about such things there is most likely something seriously amiss in your relationship.   <br />Hence much of the work of a phone or internet psychic is centered on providing answers to these alarming and desperate questions. Not really the way I like to make an honest living. Such clients rarely want to hear the truth and helping them to face such truth involves the delicate skills that are most often not of a psychic nature.
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<p>If  you punch  the word &#8216;psychic&#8217; into a search engine it is highly unlikely you will find the type of psychic who does non-timed, holistic readings that can provide deep insight into your life and it&#8217;s direction.   <br />The sites that will come up are ones working on those sites that have and need a high-advertising- budget where scam artists may well exist.   <br />A lot of good psychics have WebPages but it is hard, if not impossible to find them. That is unless you want to wade through the results down to about page 100. This is an unfortunate symptom of the way the internet works. The internet is primarily governed by the principles of huge business.
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<p>So back to the original expect, &#8220;Do really good psychics work on the phone lines or on internet sites&#8221;?   <br />I reckon the answer is, &#8220;Yes, occasionally they do&#8221;.</p>

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<br />Everyone has cell phones these days. Is it time your kids had one too?  Only you can deicde that, based on your family&#8217;s communication needs and budget. There are some provocative options out there. Some cell phones for kids allows complete parental control, others are designed for easy utilize by tweens, and some others are merely glorified toys (which may be right for your child).
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<p><strong>Comparing Cell Phones</strong>
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<p>Determining which of these factors is most important to you in a cell phone will help you decide which cell phone to buy for your tween.
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<p><strong>Add On? </strong> The biggest decision you will have to produce when buying a cell phone for kids is whether you should just add a phone to your current plan, or migrate to a family-oriented provider. It may depend on your original phone contract, if your cell phone is tied to business expenses, and on the difference in cost to your family. The controls on some family cell phone providers may help save money for families whose usage is out of control.
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<p><strong>Battery Life</strong> With any cell phone, especially a cell phone for kids, battery life is important. Be positive the cell phone battery which comes standard with the cell phone has a long enough battery life to suit your needs. What is the standby time?  And features you may not want in a cell phone for kids: Is the battery easily removed?
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<p><strong>Beyond Voice</strong> If the cell phone for kids you are considering has Internet capabilities, you may want to consider the necessity of that feature. Time spent accessing Internet pages, sending e-mail and instant messaging will eat up valuable minutes. Most of these activities can be done at home, at school or at the library.
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<p><strong>Cost</strong> The cost of a cell phone for kids is in the same ballpark as other cell phones. Consider visiting <a href="http://www.wirefly.com/">Wirefly</a> to gather cell phone deals and plans on all major carriers. Often when buying phones through Wirefly, you will receive extra accessories and better prices than going through the providers directly.
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<p><strong>Durability</strong> Cell phones for kids should be made to move from pocket to backpack, to being dropped on the ground, back to pocket&#8230;and still function. Easily scratched or shiny materials are not suitable for cell phones for kids.
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<p><strong>GPS</strong> should arrive standard on any cell phone for kids. It allows parents to monitor kids, or locate a lost phone.
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<p><strong>Kid Appeal</strong> When buying a cell phone for kids, consider if you&#8217;d like the phone to look like yours, or to appeal to your child. If you&#8217;d rather have a phone that looks more like a phone than a toy, withhold that in mind when purchasing a cell phone for kids.
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<p><strong>Safety Features </strong>A cell phone for kids should have an easy way to contact mom, dad, or other guardians quickly and easily. Hurry dial numbers on cell phones for kids are also convenient. A cell phone with a verbalize link to 911 is useful for kids who understand the meaning of an &#8220;emergency.&#8221; Some cell phones for kids allow parents to control which numbers may be dialed and restricting other numbers.
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<p><strong>Features to Skip on Your Tween&#8217;s Phone</strong>
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<p>Buying a cell phone for your tween should be as fun and effortless as the phone itself. Kids do not need a lot of technology and features on their phones. Since some schools are beginning to ban cell phones with <strong>cameras </strong>for privacy reasons, it is best to bewitch a cell phone for your tween that does not have an added camera.
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<p>Other extras that you may want to avoid on your tween&#8217;s first cell phone are <strong>Internet access</strong> and a music player. Having Internet access for you tween&#8217;s cell phone would be like giving your child your credit card and dropping them off a the mall for a day. Most tweens can wait until they are home, at school or at the library to surf and download, otherwise your tween&#8217;s cell phone minutes will soon dwindle.
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<p>If your tween really wants a portable <strong>music player</strong>, it&#8217;s best to buy them one separately from their cell phone. If a tween&#8217;s cell phone has music playing capabilities, the battery will be ancient down before mom or dad can do their first call.
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<p><strong>Before You Buy</strong>
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<p>If you feel you and your tween could befriend from a cell phone, and that it won&#8217;t be misused, it may be time to purchase one. There are some distinguished ground rules to set with kids <em>before</em> handing over a new phone. Because most public schools have strict policies for cell phone use at school it is important to follow some basic guidelines, in addition to any specific rules of their school. Although some guidelines may seem certain, it is important to spell them out for children and pre-teens receiving a cell phone.
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<p>1. Do not use your cell phone during class, even if it is &#8220;just to text.&#8221;<br />2. Cell phone use should be limited to lunch, recess and for after school.<br />3. Set a monthly limit of minutes unless there is one build in.<br />4. Practice respect and good cell phone etiquette.
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<p><strong>The Phones</strong>
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<p><strong>Disney Mobile</strong>
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<p>Disney Mobile, which launched in June of 2006, has created a wireless service and cell phones specifically designed for families, not just for parents and not impartial for kids. In coming up with cell phones for families, Disney Mobile has listened to what parents today want and need in a family cell phone plan. Parents will be able to manage their family cell phone plan online through <a href="www.disneymobile.com" class="broken_link">Disney Mobile</a>. With Disney Mobile comes Family Center features, which allow parents to:
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<p>1. Locate kids&#8217; cell phones GPS capabilities.<br />2. Set a &#8220;spending allowance&#8221; for kids&#8217; cell phones which tracks usage for voice minutes, text messaging, picture messaging and downloading, as well as an alert-system letting kids know when they have reached their allowance.<br />3. Manage communication on kids&#8217; cell phones with always-on numbers and restricted numbers.<br />4. Prioritize important family messages.<br />5. Determine the hours of the day and days of the week when kids can use their cell phones.
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<p><suitable em=""></suitable>: Disney Mobile is the best choice for a family idea for families who currently do not have a family cell phone plan or whose family plan is soon expiring. This plan als works for parents who have Internet access during the day for messaging their kid&#8217;s cell phone.
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<p><strong>Firefly Mobile Cell Phone for Kids</strong>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.fireflymobile.com/">Firefly Mobile</a></strong> has really cute cell phones for kids. The Firefly phone for kids was designed to address the needs of pre-teenage kids and their parents. Firefly phones are kid-sized and colorful. They have just five keys, lots of light, sound and animation. Who wouldn&#8217;t want one of those?  The Firefly Phone for kids, which costs $99, comes with intentional limits.
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<p>1.The Firefly phone for kids is a voice-only phone. The phone does have caller ID and optional call screening.<br />2. It&#8217;s small and rounded gain is geared to fit directly into the hands of kids aged eight to 12 years old. How small?  It is about the size of a small pocket calculator.<br />3. The Firefly phone for kids is easy to use. There are only just five keys instead of a regular dial pad on this kids&#8217; cell phone. Parents use a pin to program up to 22 outgoing numbers into the phone. The Firefly phone for kids has two icon indicated speed-dial keys for Mom and Dad.<br />4. The Firefly also has a 911 button for emergency calls with and accidental call prevention feature.<br />5. During exercise, this cell phone for kids lights up like a firefly.<br />6. Firefly cell phone for kids comes 12 ring tones, seven cover colors, five animations, a battery charger and a hook for a backpack clip.
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<p><em>Suitable for</em>: A holiday or birthday present, as the Firefly is one of the higher-priced cell phones for kids. Best for younger children who will relish the fun features of the Firefly.
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<p><strong>TicTalk</strong>
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<p><a href="http://www.mytictalk.com">TicTalk</a> is an easy-to-use which enables parental control of all functions and features via the TicTalk web page. Features of TickTalk include:<br />1. Total parental control: parents control who can call the cell phone, who the kids can call, and when the phone can be used.<br />2. Rewards &#8211; Kids can earn extras minutes for playing LeapFrog&reg; learning games on their TicTalk.<br />3. This cell phone is ready for use with the TicTalk pre-paid service plan.<br />4. Battery power: talk time is eight hours, game-play time is 18 hours or there are 100 house of idle standby time.
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<p><em>Suitable for</em>: Younger kids, not so much for tweens; one of the more durable options.<br /><strong>Verizon&#8217;s Migo Cell Phone for Kids</strong>
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<p>Comparable to the Firefly cell phone for kids is <a href="http://www.verizon.com">Verizon&#8217;s Migo</a>. Taking a page out of Firefly Mobile&#8217;s book, the Migo even looks a limited like the Firefly cell phone for kids. The Verizon Migo kid&#8217;s cell phone also comes with Chaperone, which can locate your child&#8217;s Migo through your handset or PC.
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<p>1. The Verizon Migo has a cute, kid-friendly compact design which will fit comfortably into a small hand.<br />2. The cell phone for kids is easy to consume with a simplified keypad and interface.<br />3. Parents may program four buttons on their tween&#8217;s cell phone.<br />4. The Verizon Migo kid&#8217;s phone comes with a dedicated emergency key.
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<p><em>Suitable for</em>: Families who currently have Verizon or will be switching to Verizon. With everyone&#8217;s phone on one plan, parents can track costs easier. Kids will like the phone and parents will like the convenience of one bill.
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<p><strong>Whereify</strong>
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<p>The <strong><a href="http://www.wherify.com">Wherifone </a></strong>is a GPS cell phone for children and seniors. The phone is slim, small and lightweight and according to Whereify, it is the smallest GPS cell phone. The phone, like the Firefly and Migo is a tiny handset without a regular keypad found on traditional cell phones. Instead, there are a limited number of programmed keys. Wherify phones should be available as of October 1, 2006.
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<p>1. The Wherifone has an SOS&#8217; button in of case emergency.<br />2. There are five programmable buttons for one-touch dialing.<br />3. Wherifone has a push button residence services<br />4. Wherifone colors include silver, pink, black, purple and blue.
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<p><em>Suitable for</em>: Parents who need to know where their kids or family members are at all times.
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<p>Consider use, practicality, cost, coverage area and child&#8217;s maturity level before purchasing a kid&#8217;s cell phone.</p></div>
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