@adamkump, if you live in the USA or Canada and want granular control of the features that your children’s cellphones will support, then check out the variations of Sunbeam Wireless F1 flip-phones for your children.
- I used for three years in the USA the now-discontinued F1 Orchid before getting my Kompakt.
- @minimalist4life in Canada had the F1 Horizon Bluebird before getting his Kompakt.
Sunbeam makes reliable flip-phones with handy functionality, but:
- they work only in the USA and Canada, plus somewhat in Argentina and Israel;
- their screens are half the size of the Kompakt’s screen;
- their screens are NOT readable in bright sunlight,
- they do not support sideloading of apps; and,
- the user must enjoy the flip-phone form factor (which I enjoy but @minimalist4life does not).