Why do elementary kids needs $200+ phones?

[Mystic]

More and more I see middle school kids and younger with expensive phones. Over the summer, at the fair, this little kid had like a $200 phone. Most teenagers and adults I know don't even have phones that cost that much. What's wrong with getting a kid a $100 phone that can just call, text, and maybe play music? Why give a kid a phone with a touch screen? They'll just scratch it up hella fast and want a new one.

Does this bother anyone else?

[ThePowerOfOne]

Not really. It's none of my business what phone anyone else has.

[Lotos]

The parents are probably in debt over it anyway.

[Kayo]

I think they just need a simple little flip camera phone, enough to call, txt, and take pics.

My phone costed over $360, but I'm in high school so I EARNED IT ^_^

[jnfs2014]

I think I'm the lone exception to that.

I'm only 13, yet I have a blackberry curve.

[Kayo]

I think I'm the lone exception to that.

I'm only 13, yet I have a blackberry curve.

>proving the point of this thread.

You're in middle school, yet you have a $700-$800 phone. :|

At least you're taking good care of it. After glueing my phone doing something incredibly stupid, I feel like one of those middle schoolers with their expensive phones. ;_;

At least it works now, except for the yuck on the side. Plus my 3. Have to puch EXTRA hard. And that's an important Speed Dial number D:

[jnfs2014]

...Who pays 700-800 dollars for a simple blackberry when you can just buy one for $200?

[Kayo]

...Who pays 700-800 dollars for a simple blackberry when you can just buy one for $200?

Sir, the BB Curve costs over $700. If you got it cheaper, it was probably because of a contract.

Well, I DID pay only $45 for my phone, with 2-year contract. If it broke I'd need to pay $360+ for a new one.

[jnfs2014]

$700-$700.

[Kayo]

$700-$700.

wut :|

[jnfs2014]

My phone was free with a two year plan.

[Kayo]

My phone was free with a two year plan.

Parents paying =/= free.

Also, could have been some special deal, otherwise you won't find free BlackBerries on a regular basis.

[The Seventh]

I don't know, either.

My first phone I got at 13 was only $25 with a 2 year contract.  The second one, a handmedown from when my mom replaced her phone.  The third one?  Another handmedown from my dad.

Yet I find it funny that these younger kids that probably aren't even 10 (a friend of my sister's was only 9 when she got her fancy pants $350 phone for god's sake) get these expensive as hell phones, when all I get is pre-used phones.

At least my parents take good car of theirs... so I wasn't given something horrible.

[Thirdkoopa]

Here's a better question: Why does anyone need a 200$ Phone If they're just going to use it for calling people?

I'm questioned more on why any elementary kid has a phone in the first place, but I have a friend who's younger brother has it simply due to the contract.

[Magnum]

I'm a junior in High School and I own a $20 dollar phone.

It's a brick.