We finally got rid of our home landline a few months ago. But one thing my wife and I quickly realized was that we still needed some sort of "home" phone, just in case our soon-to-be-9-year-old gets off the school bus and finds there's no one here to meet her. I'd rigged up a Nexus 7 with Google Hangouts Dialer, but that was a clunky solution. We needed a real phone. Besides, I figured, it's probably time for Kid No. 1 to start learning about how to use phones.
The next question, then, was what to start her out with. The 2013 Moto X was a pretty easy choice. But recently I'd tried moving her over to one of those new unlocked phones. Doesn't even matter which one — and there a number of good options available from Alcatel One Touch, ASUS and others — the end result was the same. The newer phone was just too big for her still-child-sized hands. And just as important, I think, is the simplicity of the "stock" Android UI over custom jobs. Not that she couldn't figure them out, but it's just that with the Moto X she doesn't have to learn anything new. And there's something to be said for that.
So the kid's back on the Moto X. And I'm back to teaching her that maybe she doesn't have to use the phone to talk to me from the other side of the house.
Nikki Reed
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