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Is your child heavily into texting or emails? Do you wish to encourage them to keep in touch with you? Do they need a phone with more smartphone characteristics then your average basic handset? Do they need a music player or media player they can keep with them? Are you concerned about their wherabouts and safety? Then this device may be just what you have been looking for in a phone for tech savvy children.

The Blitz from Verizon is intended for US school kids and is priced at  $69.99. It features such child safe security features as a location sharing application, Chaperone Child, to track your kids on-line.

Other features include

• Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• 2.2-inch 220×176 pixels screen with 262K colors
• 1.3MP camera
• Bluetooth
• Mobile email and IM support
• Music player compatible with V CAST Music with Rhapsody,
• VZ Navigator
• MicroSD memory card slot
• Voice commands
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Alarm clock
• 1000 phone book entries
• 280 minutes of talk time
• 280 hours of standby time.

All in all, quite a little wonder. Heck, I would be tempted to get one for myself.