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Tweens & Technology: Understanding Smartphone Behaviors of Tweens

Via Strategy Analytics Press Releases

Sep 24, 2015

Few Parents Aware of Safeguard Applications

Boston, MA –** September 23, 2015 – For a new generation of consumers, the first smartphone owned will be as a tween (aged 8-12 years). At this life stage, often coinciding with the end of elementary school or commencing middle school, children start to gain some independence from their parents. Naturally, as children start doing more things on their own, parents want to be able to stay in touch with their child; the parent’s provision of a smartphone was not only motivated by communication, but also for use at school, in case of emergency and safety. Comparatively, for tweens, the motivation for a smartphone was communication with friends and family, games and texting.

A new report from the Mobile Device UX group at Strategy Analytics (www.strategyanalytics.com) has explored the motivations and behaviors of tweens and parents with smartphones. For parents looking to give their tween a smartphone, ensuring its cost-effectiveness – both in terms of the handset itself and ongoing costs – was a main priority, being most likely to add their child to their own plan and providing hand-me-down or lower-cost devices. Parents also wanted to maintain a sense of control over their tween’s smartphone; performing regular checks and withholding passwords to the app store. Monitoring a child’s usage of minutes, messages and data, so as not to exceed their current allowances, was also a priority for parents.

Click here for the report: http://bit.ly/1Nfbgms

Monica Wong, analyst and report author commented, “Despite parents wanting to maintain control of their child’s smartphone, very few were aware of safeguard applications that are currently on the market. As such, OEMs and mobile carriers who offer these services need to do a better job at marketing them. In terms of what appeals to parents, something that allows them to mirror their child’s phone, so they can see what their child is doing at any moment, and doing so remotely, is appealing.”

Paul Brown, Director, Mobile Device UX, added “One condition many parents gave their tween to having a phone was that they could check it whenever they wanted. However, parents would also like the ability to see which applications their child has downloaded remotely, a dashboard that summarizes their child’s smartphone activities, and a feature that allows them to locate their child at any time.”

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