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In response to ""threw out an IPOD"? Did this happen in 2006? -- nm" by Reagen

a lot of kids get an iPod Touch instead of a phone because you can get on the internet and message with it.

Posted by spamlet Feb 5 '15, 07:02

I laugh at those parents. They say they don't get their kids phones so that they don't get in trouble with them when an iPod touch is the same thing just without a cell radio.

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(also without the cost of a cell plan) -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 07:34 6
- I've never actually heard that compliant. - spamlet Feb 5, 07:41 5
  - US mobile costs are insanely more affordable than they are here. If you want data at all, you are already in the $40 range, and that's for like 100mb. -- nm - Shaun Feb 5, 07:55 3
    - yup, for a new IPhone (just 1); the cheapest plan would have run me $80+ a month. F that. -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 08:08
    - my friend's 8 year old has an ipod for this reason. plus she can text her friends (the texts also get pushed to all the moms phones, so they know what - Andie Feb 5, 08:01 1
      - Definitely. -- nm - Shaun Feb 5, 08:02
  - I'll breakdown and get a decent phone eventually, but right now it would jump our costs alot :) -- nm - Beaker Feb 5, 07:43

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a lot of kids get an iPod Touch instead of a phone because you can get on the internet and message with it.

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