apple watch for pre teen
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craigthecoupe

Original Poster:

956 posts

227 months

Our youngster is about to turn 10, and we are about to move to a new area (though we already know it very well).
She will be playing out a lot with other kids, and would feel better if we had some way of contacting her, and her us.
She is absolutely screen mad, and of course quite forgetful. We wont give her a phone yet, but was wondering if a second hand apple watch might be a good halfway house? she often wears an analogue watch already, so would like to think it would be a smooth transition. I've already read we can manage apps/school time/restrict numbers etc, and i'm quite keen to go down this route over designated kids watches, as I imagine the tech in an apple watch is far superior.
I'm a bit of a luddite with tech, so am asking, what spec of watch is it i'm looking for, and what sort of price on the second hand market am I likely to pay?
Thanks for anyone who can help.

Badda

3,598 posts

105 months

I’m not sure Apple Watch’s allow comms without a phone pairing. Might be wrong. We found a cheap imitation one on Amazon a good solution, with a payg sim in. Beware that schools don’t tend to like them though.

Alorotom

12,684 posts

210 months

Any apple watch would need an iphone to be paired with initially, however, assuming you buy a cellular watch and have an appropriate cellular plan for it once set up it will fully function away from the iphone and be able to receive calls etc.

craigthecoupe

Original Poster:

956 posts

227 months

Thats as I undestand it, yes. My wife is an apple user, so we would be sorted from that point of view.
Badda, I don't suppose you could share the sort of thing you got? is it easy to use? A couple of comments i read online was that on the imitation watches, sound quality was so poor it was pointless, and another, battery life was dismal.

Goa'uld

662 posts

225 months

https://xplora.co.uk/products/x6play?variant=43967...

We have two of these, they have a £6 monthly data plan.

Can setup geo fence areas, we use it as an unobtrusive heads up for the school bus getting back in our area as the time fluctuates.

Other than that they're really only used to call them to come back for dinner/sports clubs when out and about and works brilliantly for this, they get to see their friends and we get to keep to any schedules!

They go in school mode during the day so they're basically a Casio and nothing more, and they get competitive with the step counter on them.

All contact is through the locked app so only us and grandparents can contact them.