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Posted 7th May 2023
My daughter starts secondary school in September what phone should i get her nothing to expensive or flashy ?
Also what phones are your secondary school kids using any advice appreciated thanks
Also what phones are your secondary school kids using any advice appreciated thanks
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sorted by£13 a month and it covers 4 phones in your household insurance wise, so yours, your partners (assuming you have one) and your daughters. Plus other benefits too but it's a good way of insuring phones.
Then you have the unenviable battle of balancing what they want to what you're willing to pay. Back in my day it was what I had for a PE Kit or what make my backpack was, now, unfortunately, it's probably phones.
All bought via this website on various offers, some where bought as refurbished and we got brand new ones with full warranty. We've not had any major damage issues and anything else was covered under warranty and repaired/replaced.
Main issue I seem to find is constantly replacing charging cables rather than them not taking care on their phones. They tend to look after the phones quite well. I think most of the Iphones/Android phones would be a safe bet don't think it needs to be the latest.
Just ensure it's still within the period to get updates (as you never know what the schools apps will require) I would go for a mid range refurb and see how they get on with it. (edited)
if your child has used that before it may be worth getting a similar model for them.
We’ve iPhones in the family and as daughter has used ours thought that’s the best way to go in getting something their already used to.
If the child wants to game, then the phone has to run that game, and the issue becomes one of what is the cheapest decent phone to have sufficient gaming power.
If the child is reasonable and sensible, go to the main section and look at the various second hand Google Pixel deals- fantastic camera/display/performance and build quality- only the battery isn't the best.
New, cheap and well specced usually means Xiaomi, but I bet the kids hate this brand.
New phones well below 100 are usually very compromised. Not an issue for informed adults, but I can't see kids in the know liking them.
Anyway are they to be used like tablets as well? Running calculator apps, accessing Wikipedia, processing images and video for school work? It would seem like a good idea to talk to someone at your daughter's future school for advice on this front.