Best phone for kid’s first phone…

<p>$500 phone for a middle schooler? LOL…heck no.</p><p>If you want to give a middle schooler a $500 phone, then that's up to you. However, you gotta think that a kid isn't going to practice the same quality of care that an mature adult would for a phone that costs half a grand. What if the phone gets stolen?</p><p>I would say buy a refurbished Android phone for less than $150 and set the phone up for location sharing on Google Maps, so you would know exactly where that phone/kid is at all times. Just don't tell the middle schooler about that or else he or she will disable it.</p><p>I would not even consider to consider an iOS phone, because let's face it…..Siri isn't so smart and would not be helpful at all for a middle schooler.</p><p>My niece is 11 years old now and she has been using a used Samsung Galaxy S5 phone that used to belong to my dad (her grandfather). She was given that phone when she was 9 years old. She LOVES that phone and still uses it. She plays Roblox on it, Youtube, Netflix, and does Snapchat, Hangouts, Allo,…practically everything on it. NOT JUST THAT (pay attention here), she buys a lot of cases and popsockets for it. Unless your middle schooler is old enough to appreciate a $500 Essential phone, then I would just buy a cheap phone that works, because they are gonna do a lot with it and TO IT.</p><p>Don't go ultra cheap, like Prepaid phones that you see in Walmart, because you are going to run into issues regarding memory storage.&nbsp;</p><p>Good luck.</p>