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Ehm....

 

It could be a test that has misinformation and the drop in kids with smartphones could be false.

 

Also your personal experiences might not matter and this test might be (partially) true.

 

Too many factors to handle.

 

Why do you worry about this anyway. :P It's not your own kid is it now?

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What kind of irresponsible parent gets a kid that's under 16 an expensive smartphone? I didn't have a phone till I got a job and bought my own.

 

 

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Ehm....

 

It could be a test that has misinformation and the drop in kids with smartphones could be false.

 

Also your personal experiences might not matter and this test might be (partially) true.

 

Too many factors to handle.

 

Why do you worry about this anyway. :P It's not your own kid is it now?

it's just shocking that young children have very expensive smartphones and I'm only 16
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i only hope for the well being of humanity this is true, but i have my doubts.

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i only hope for the well being of humanity this is true, but i have my doubts.

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As much as we don't like it, the amount of technology youngsters receive will always increase. I still don't see the point of tablets though.

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As much as we don't like it, the amount of technology youngsters receive will always increase. I still don't see the point of tablets though.

 

You can create lots of creative things with a tablet! All of the delicious pen pressure..2048 levels of artistic bliss it's just so- oh, you mean the other kind of tablet that's a giant smart phone. :P

 

 

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I have a pretty crappy smartphone the samsung galaxy blaze, but I getting the HTC one next year

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I didn't own a phone till I got my blackberry about a year ago

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I'm 15 and have a had a phone for a couple years, but they were never all that great. I now have a htc one though, but I still see a kind of divide at school between people who don't have a phone or a pretty crap one and the people who have an expensive phone like the Iphone fans and someother people like me who have high end android phones.

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What kind of irresponsible parent gets a kid that's under 16 an expensive smartphone? I didn't have a phone till I got a job and bought my own.

Phones a kinda cheap on contract

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Phones a kinda cheap on contract

depends where you are In the world
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Phones a kinda cheap on contract

Quite the opposite, they're much cheaper off contract. 

 

You're just paying less up front. 

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I got my first phone when i was ummm 13 i think, it was a flip phone, nothin special and i used it for like a month and hadnt had a phone up until about a year ago which i bought myself and i pay the bill myself :3

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I didn't get a cell phone until I was in 7th grade, and it was NOT an iphone. I had a crappy flip phone. Giving an iphone to anyone under 13 is ridiculous if you ask me.

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Quite the opposite, they're much cheaper off contract. 

 

You're just paying less up front. 

 

Dat upfront cost with no contract.

 

 

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im almost 20 in 17 days and i just got my first smartphone almost a year ago but i got my fist phone when i was in 7th grade but to only use it when i got done with sports and for my mom to call me when she was going to be late to pick me up but i never used it much more than that

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Dat upfront cost with no contract.

The benefits of no contract outweigh paying for it in full upfront anyway.

 

You end up paying a fair bit more for the phone over time on contract. 

 

 

Got my first smartphone in 9th grade and that thing changed my life.

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That reminds me..remember when the flavor of the month for phones several years back was this thing?

 

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What I'm more surprised about than anything is how many people responding like they are the target of that story. Is LTT really popular with kids for some reason?

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