Kids smart watch phone plan

I don’t want to give my six year old a phone or a $600 Apple Watch. The Gizmo is EXTREMELY popular in my community. Why on earth does AT&T not offer one. My husband and I spend over $400 a month with AT&T and are seriously thinking of switching because of this. And battery life has not been a problem for any of the people I’ve talked to, so they’re probably just showing the extreme situations in those findings. 

I disagree with some of these responses. My son has 2 friends with Verizon and their parents are more than happy with their watch phone. Battery life is NOT 4 hours. Yes. Needs to be charged but so does every smart device now a days. Been watching for almost a year thinking they would get on the same page as their competitors.  ATT totally dropped the ball and looks like I may be leaving well at least for my wife's and now sons phone/watch. Ashame ATT doesn't adapt. 

Adapt to what?  A nitch device.  Att sold a kids watch and it floped.  It was called the flip...  I watch sales numbers of cell carriers and of reported they sold very little of those Gizmo devices.  Plus LG is not known for quality,. I get parents don't want to give more cell phones if they are underm10.

Okay, so we are among the first group of young families in our neighborhood of 1,500 new homes to have children reach the age where they are somewhat independent but not independent enough to have all the responsibilities that a real phone brings.  We are extremely disappointed that AT&T STILL does not offer a comparable device like the Gizmo Gadget currently being serviced by Verizon.  Perhaps the reason that the device they had a year ago didn't have much in sales is because this is a NEW market being developed.  There is so much research being done on the harmful effects of giving children phones at an early age, and social media is blowing up at the moment with the dangers of giving these devices to your kids.  Now that parents are becoming more and more aware of how harmful it is to give a child a "real" phone we would now like to find something safer for our kids.  How hard is this to understand? Markets change, and right now the Gizmo watch is a hot market.  We have been doing extensive research on other watches that we may or may not be able to "add" to AT&T, trying to figure out a way to stay, and so far, there's nothing we have found that is as reliable and affordable at Verizon's Gizmo.  We have been customers with AT&T for almost ten years.  We don't want to switch after all that time - we were quite happy, but at the moment, we have to do what's best for our family and that means making a switch.  Many other families will be following us and I imagine someday, hopefully soon, AT&T will finalize realize that there is a market for a watch like this!  Flip phones don't work for active kids and we need something to stay in touch with them when they are on their bikes without worrying if that flip phone is going to fall out of their pockets.

It’s enough to make me consider switching providers...I’m not giving an 8 year old a cell phone so what option is att giving me 

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@ahuston wrote:

Okay, so we are among the first group of young families in our neighborhood of 1,500 new homes to have children reach the age where they are somewhat independent but not independent enough to have all the responsibilities that a real phone brings.  We are extremely disappointed that AT&T STILL does not offer a comparable device like the Gizmo Gadget currently being serviced by Verizon.  Perhaps the reason that the device they had a year ago didn't have much in sales is because this is a NEW market being developed.  There is so much research being done on the harmful effects of giving children phones at an early age, and social media is blowing up at the moment with the dangers of giving these devices to your kids.  Now that parents are becoming more and more aware of how harmful it is to give a child a "real" phone we would now like to find something safer for our kids.  How hard is this to understand? Markets change, and right now the Gizmo watch is a hot market.  We have been doing extensive research on other watches that we may or may not be able to "add" to AT&T, trying to figure out a way to stay, and so far, there's nothing we have found that is as reliable and affordable at Verizon's Gizmo.  We have been customers with AT&T for almost ten years.  We don't want to switch after all that time - we were quite happy, but at the moment, we have to do what's best for our family and that means making a switch.  Many other families will be following us and I imagine someday, hopefully soon, AT&T will finalize realize that there is a market for a watch like this!  Flip phones don't work for active kids and we need something to stay in touch with them when they are on their bikes without worrying if that flip phone is going to fall out of their pockets.

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@ahuston

LG's report of these watches sold number in less than 200k that is not a market when you think about the R&D cost for a device and verizon has a exclusive deal with LG.

Has anyone used Relay?? It looks like a little speaker. Single button in the middle. Used kinda like a walkie talkie, but using LTE and connects with phone app... I think it’s like $7 monthly and $100 for the device

I just bought a Verizon gizmo off a buy sell trade page, I’m not going to be able to hook it up for my daughter under my AT&T plan?!?

Nope.  It's verizon only.