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Leading Child-Safe Smartphone Pinwheel Launches in Australia

Phone designed for safe use by children has age-appropriate guardrails, parent-monitoring features and no access to browsers or social media

As the debate on banning children from social media continues and the Online Safety Act progresses through Parliament, Australian parents now have the option of a smartphone designed specifically for safe use by children and teens aged 8-15.

Pinwheel - one of the world’s top-rated and best-selling ‘child-safe’ connected smartphones in the US and the UK – is now available for sale in Australia. Unlike so-called ‘dumb phones’ with limited functionality, Pinwheel is a connected Android smartphone that includes built-in parental management tools and blocks access to social media and open Internet browsing, while still offering access to the fun features young users enjoy...> Read More

Pinwheel Ranks #212 on the 2024 Inc. 5000 fastest growing US companies

Pinwheel, an Austin-based startup behind a best-selling smartphone designed specifically for kids, announced today that it ranks No. 212 on the prestigious  Inc. 5000 2024, the publication’s annual list of the fastest growing companies in America. 

Pinwheel, which sells smartphones for children and tweens 8-14 that have pre-installed parental management tools and no social media, grew revenues by about 20X since 2021, placing it within the top 5% of the 2024 list. Over the past year, the company – whose phones have received positive reviews from the New York Times, USA Today and Parents Magazine – has expanded to serve families in Canada, and plans to launch in the UK and Australia markets soon...> Read More

Pinwheel Launches Canada's First Kid-Safe Smartphone

Pinwheel, maker of the best-selling Pinwheel smartphone for kids, announced today that its popular smartphone for kids is now available for sale in Canada, making it the first smartphone designed specifically for safe use by children ages 8-14 available to families there. .... >Read More

Phone Upcycling Program Prevents Adult Phones from Going to Kids or into the Landfill 

Pinwheel, maker of the best-selling Pinwheel smartphone for kids, announced today the launch of its Hand It In Phone Upcycling Program, which allows parents to send in their old phone and get a kid-specific phone at a discounted price for their children.... >Read More

First Kid-Safe, Parent-Monitored AI Chat Bot Powered by ChatGPT

Pinwheel, maker of the best-selling Pinwheel smartphone for kids, announced today the launch of PinwheelGPT, the first child-safe AI chat app powered by ChatGPT that enables parental monitoring. The new, free PinwheelGPT app will be available on any device (including Pinwheel phones) through a mobile app, or via a mobile or desktop web browser.... >Read More

Discord's New Safety Tools

Imagine that your local local movie theatre showed everything from the latest Pixar hit to film pornography. A single ticket allows anyone--even children---to enter the front doors and then choose a theater room. Which one shows porn? That's not clear until the movie starts, but somebody is handing out candy for entering theater 9.

Discord is like that....>Read More