{"id":287965,"date":"2026-02-08T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287965\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:20:09","slug":"atts-budget-friendly-phone-for-kids-was-designed-with-parental-controls-in-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287965\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T’s budget-friendly phone for kids was designed with parental controls in mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

It might be near impossible<\/a> to be a kid these days without a smartphone, but AT&T wants to offer parents a decent compromise. The wireless carrier launched its AmiGO Jr. Phone, which combines Samsung hardware and AT&T’s app, to offer kids a smartphone that has parental controls baked right in.<\/p>\n

The AmiGO Jr. Phone is just a Samsung Galaxy A16<\/a>, which still remains a solid budget smartphone pick with a 50-megapixel main camera, a 6.7-inch display and reliable battery life. However, AT&T tweaked the Samsung hardware into its kid-friendly smartphone by including features like live location tracking, safe zones and screentime restrictions that can be controlled via the AmiGO app. It’s not the first time we’ve seen a smartphone with parental controls, since competitors like Bark and Pinwheel<\/a> have been on the market for a couple of years now, but it’s the first time a major mobile carrier is offering its own standalone product.<\/p>\n

As for the AmiGO Jr. Phone, it’s now available on AT&T’s website<\/a> for $3 a month, but you’ll have to commit to a 36-month contract that provides bill credits. You still have to pay for your monthly service charges as an AT&T customer, but it’ll be cheaper than buying a Galaxy A16 outright for $200. For even more security, AT&T also launched its AmiGO Jr. Watch 2 to expand its ecosystem that already includes a tablet designed for kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It might be near impossible to be a kid these days without a smartphone, but AT&T wants to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2596,61,60,115799,23116,7700,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-287965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-att","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-parental-controls","12":"tag-samsung-galaxy","13":"tag-smartphone","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}