We haven't seen a lot of child
themed flip phones, at least in the US, but Sanyo has a new one out for Japan that mimics their
previous
offerings while keeping things a bit simpler. The SA800i is all about the GPS tracking, with abilities to report
the location of the phone at a certain time interval, even when off. The battery is designed to be hard to remove, and
the phone sends out a signal when it is being switched off to notify parents of its location. To further its cause of
child protection, the phone also includes an emergency cord that when pulled sounds a 100 decibel alarm and notifies
emergency contact numbers of the location of the phone and that the cord has been pulled. (What could possibly go
wrong?) No word on the camera's resolution, and the external LCD isn't near as impressive as Sanyo's A5520SA
predecessor, but this phone sounds plenty functional for a protective parent.
posted Mar 14th 2006 6:49PM
Old news, again, however the camera has a VGA ( 0.32 megapixel )
camera.
Hard-to-find information like this can be found
amazingly on Sanyo website, or for somethign completely different, the DoCoMo website where they've been for some time.
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/kids_phone/sa800i/index.html
http://www.sanyo-keitai.com/docomo/sa800i/spec/index.shtml
ive always wondered about this whole kiddie phone process. is it really wise to give kids a cell phone so we can track them wherever. parents really know how to kill the fun in being a kid. theres a difference between paranoia and parenting and kiddie phones definitely highlight the former.