KidsConnect GPS Tracker Cell Phone Wearable for Kids and Children All in One Security Solution, White

I purchased this device for my kindergarten kid when she started school. There are so many things I love about this device. I have listed a few pros and cons.1. Monitor the device location at all times on the website or app. Pros: You can set a time when you can set the mode to GPS, where the phone's location will be pinpointed to about 10m. At all other times the phone can be set to LBS, in which it would ping off the nearest cell phone tower so the error is about 500m. Works great to monitor my kids movement from school to after care. By enabling GPS only for a short duration I save on power. Cons: Setup is not clear. Call customer support. they will guide you through it to set it up. A clear instruction manual can make it far less complicated.2.Monitor the device by text message. Pros: I totally love this. You send a message to the phone during the time when GPS is enabled and the phone will respond with a text message with a google maps link to the GPS position. Cons: Set up was done after calling customer support.3. Voice monitor kids surroundings in stealth mode. pros: Send a text message to the device and the device will call you back in stealth mode without activating the screen cons: Setup took some time to figure out4. Geo fence your kid's location pros: Get a text message when your kid leaves or enters a geo fence. cons: Set up of geo fence can be done when GPS is enabled and took some time and help from customer setup.5. Affordable option.The monthly price comes to around $12 and they have many options as per need.Overall, awesome device. Need clear instructions to setup the GPS monitoring time.

Short version:- set up and support is horrible- the phone functions fine and is fairly easy for a later elementary-school kid to use- the GPS tracker is almost useless- there are serious security concerns about the websiteLong version- set up and interfaceThere is no wizard to step you through set-up; you have to go through an elaborate process to purchase a plan, and then follow broken instructions in the paper manual to figure out where to get the App. There's actually four different passwords, counting the one for the phone, you have to remember.This is an amateurish port as far as the interface is concerned. The UI on the App doesn't match the options on the Web interface, and mysterious error messages in Chinese characters pop up on the latter frequently. For example, the numbers for intervals to specify in the options for tracking don't match up at all. It's going to be a PITA if you get it, you are warned, and you'll have to guess where things are.- the phoneThe phone's interface, once you get the calling numbers set up, works fine, and using the text messages to activate the "monitoring" function works OK. My 10 year old can dial (you just press the number, but you have to hold it down for three seconds), but I expect a younger kid might have some issues. The SOS feature doesn't really work; one of the problems is if it hits Voicemail on a number, it just stops the dial out list (and if you put 911 on the SOS number, you will quickly regret it due to the number of false alarms). The phone is basically circa 2000 technology, with a small color screen, so to enter any information in it you have to do the tedious thing of pressing the same key to scroll through a numbers or letters list. But, all that said, the phone service works reliably and as a kids' cell phone for younger ones for emergencies or parent communication only, it's fine. It just requires a lot of set-up and practice. But I am still thinking for $8 a month a Tracfone would have been cheaper.- GPS / trackingUseless. I had it lock on once, and we've tried it all over the place where other phones and GPS units work fine. It defaults to LBS for location when GPS isn't tracking, which is wildly inaccurate - 500 yards or more, and the update frequency isn't useful. Using a Whereami style app on a dumb smart phone is far more useful.- website security concernsThere are unencrypted (not HTTPS) connections for logging in to the phone tracker app on the web. You heard me right. So assuming the phone tracker is on, you can actually be broadcasting your child's location over the internet, and certainly your passwords aren't secure. This is a disqualifying element, IMHO, if you are concerned about child safety from predators.Why do I still have this phone? Good luck returning it and canceling your service. I couldn't find anybody to even tell me how to cancel. Since the phone part works OK, and we use this mostly so my son can go to the playground out of sight but very close to our house without well-meaning adults hassling him about being unsupervised (and also so I can call him and tell him when it's time to come home), we'll keep it until the prepaid contract expires. But after that, I'm moving on to something more useful.

We're about a month into having the devices set up, and I'm happy with my purchase so far. The reason I'm giving four stars is that the setup process is not as straightforward as it could be (I work in IT and both set up a lot of stuff and write a lot of instructions; I'm also wondering whether this is to keep potential hackers out of the devices) and the GPS appears to lack the granularity (user error?) to see where the devices are with a lot of specificity. As others have noted, the technical support is very prompt and helpful, though.All that being said, if you want a basic communication device for your kids to which you control the access, that's easy for kids to use, and doesn't break the bank, this is a great choice. It could actually be a good choice for elders intimidated by cell phones, too, that would allow them to have a cell phone that they or a care taker could keep phone solicitors/fraud calls off. The units are pretty rugged, too, at least so far. They also have good battery life, which helps a lot with kids. Now if I could just get the kids to remember to take them with them.