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Which Phone Does a 15 Year Old Choose?

Posted by Chris Leckness on October 23, 2008 – 8:21 am  Share
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questionmark I can’t vouch for 99.999% of the 15 year girls in the world, but I can speak for my own daughter. A couple years ago, against my own will, we got my daughter a cell phone. She didn’t handle the responsibility to well, so she lost that right for a bit. Just yesterday, I reactivated her line. I handed her a sim card and some ground rules and after she agreed to the rules, I let her pick from some of the phones I had laying around.

There was a lot to pick from and she chose 5 of them and asked me to allow her a couple hours to check them out and decide. What did she choose? The iPhone, Palm Centro, LG Vu, Blackberry Pearl, and the AT&T Tilt.

My daughter is, like most teens, a heavy texter. With that know, I would have expected her choice to come down to the Blackberry Pearl or AT&T Tilt. Nope. Would you believe that she chose, in my opinion, the most unfriendly device for texting, the LG Vu.

What phones do your kids use?

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