The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is because the GPS Tracking isn’t constant. It has a setting of 5 minutes being the soonest location update. Besides that I love that it has a “School Mode” where everything is turned off except S.O.S calling that calls and texts the emergency contacts only. You have up to 10 contacts you can add to your emergency list. You also cannot activate the S.O.S by accident since it’s not a button you press. I also like the fact that it tells you when the watch is taken off and put back on so I can immediately call and have my child put it back on (for younger kids like mine 6 Yr Old btw). Another cool feature is that you can deactivate messaging so your kids won’t be sending you emoji’s or random messages (you can customize phrases for kids barely learning how to read too). The box contains a SIM card that’s actually cheaper than adding the watch to your cellular plan because it needs its own cellphone number plus you also have to pay for the app subscription. I did look for other cheaper SIM card options, but I didn’t find any better ones. You can hear clearly and vice versa. I honestly think this is the better option for children instead of cellphones. Less likely to loose and less distractions for parent wanting to be able to contact their children or know their whereabouts.

Great, functional product for kids. Great peace of mind for parents. Watch is very fragile, broke in to pieces on 2 feet drop. Excellent customer service though, replaced as priority for free… highly recommend.

The watch is not the easiest to setup. It does help if you utilize the included SIM from Jumpy. Verizon is not a supported carrier. The connector holding on the watch band broke within 3 weeks of my son wearing it daily.

The Spacetalk Adventurer 4G Kids Smart Watch Phone and GPS is a product that my son and his wife-to-be have been looking for their daughter, a 7 year old daughter, soon to be in second grade. The sleek, black matte design is not too flashy for a young child's watch, a classic and always in design. Just like all parents, they are very concerned with her personal safety when she is not with them like at school, her biological father's visits, and other such times. This is a less expensive version of a competitor's SE watch, we are very happy about. As you will see in the attached photos, the watch sent out is the gray one, but it does also come in more fun and youthful colors. When the offer for this product was announced, it was very clearly mentioned that this company's target age group were children between 5-12 years of age. To that end, it does accommodate the younger ones that may not have their full reading skills yet with already prepared messages that they can text to whoever. My grandchild is very tall for her age and the fit of the watch is perfect on her wrist. So, we were emailed instructions to call in the company's 800 number before we set up and activated the phone that said it would entail about a 30 minute phone call. Unfortunately, I received the watch when my son and his wife-to-be were recovering from a bout with Covid. Therefore, I had to wait a few days until their quarantine ended, which took it a weekend day. The toll free 800 number is only answered M-F, from 9 am-5pm, CST. We made a 3 way call as soon as possible, a Monday morning around 10 or so, but while we waited on the line until a customer service agent would pick up, it eventually went to a message that they were closed and to call again during business hours. We tried to recall several times over a period of time, but to no avail. However, later that day or within the next day or so, I did personally receive a call from a man named Bobby who told me that they were having trouble with their VOIP phone system, in fact, our call messed up when he could not hear me on my end and eventually dropped. Bobby immediately called me back and was really very helpful and willing to discuss all that he thought that would be helpful. By this time, my son and his fiancée had already downloaded the smartphone app and set up the watch, but they did think that the set up was difficult. The watch itself functions great. It has the options for: calling, texting, messaging, a heart monitor, a calculator, and a light. There are a couple functions that me and my wife-to-be really enjoy, that make us feel more comfortable when she is not with us and wearing the watch. The first is the GPS function. Previously, we have used a watch similar to this one that had GPS, but that previous watch used cell tower signals, which did not work so well when the tower signals from a carrier did not have a strong enough signal. Literally, we would give us notifications that she was located in Hong Kong or Florida, which is ridiculous because we know she was in our town on a visit. According to the man that I spoke wound up speaking to, the Spacetalk Adventure watch uses a very specific version of Google Maps GPS that really fine tunes the child's location and gives the location's address so that you know exactly where they are. Satellites that are able to so specifically locate the watch has proven to be more accurate continuously than the previous watch mentioned. The other function we like is called the SOS option. The child needs to be educated on this feature and how to use it. They simply swipe up and then swipe right and a big red button should appear. If the child were to activate this option, it would send out a call, text, and notification to the first emergency contact and if that call would not be answered, it would text the same number as well, and if neither were responded to, it would start sending the same sequence of events to all the emergency contacts that were preset into the watch. After talking to the representative of the company, he told me that once the SOS feature is activated, if there is a bad person who might be trying to turn off the watch, rip it off the child, or try to destroy it would be useless because once the signal from the watch is dispatched, the signal is already gone and out of the chicken coop and the emergency contacts are notified with a location for authorities, which have helped in tracking kidnappings and also other close situations. The rep that called me shared a quick story. This watch was originally made to be sold in Australia and the UK. Apparently, there was a case in Scotland where a child sent out the SOS signal and his father happened to be physically close, only a block or so away when he got the distress signal. This involved a boy and a man was following him and clearly making the child uncomfortable for his personal safety. The father got to his son before any misdeed occurred, but the police were then contacted and the company was able to help them with GPS information of where the boy had been and they were able to apprehend said bad guy. Another function that is useful is the school function. When activated, the watch can block calling and texting and other functions during the school day, ie. 8 am-3 pm, except for like heart beat and other health functions that can track heartbeat, etc. that can be programmed to be usable during gym class on certain days at certain times. Another feature is called Safe Zone within the app. This allows the parents to use the geo sensor and virtually allows them to put fences around areas that they are allowed to be, by address, so that if they wander or are taken somewhere else not within the fenced area an alert is issued. That radius can be as small or as large as the parent allows and they can also attach time constraints that the child can be there. As far as your privacy goes, the company that makes this watch does not have access to the contacts that you program in the watch and they do not sell to anyone-he said that privacy, safety, and ethics are very important to them. Some fun facts about this watch: it is IP 67 and therefore, water resistant, not water proof-should be able to handle no deeper than 4 feet for up to 30 minutes, uses a Qwerty keyboard for texting, etc., the ability for both parents to device share and be contacted through the app to receive calls, texts, and notifications by parent A sending an email to parent B once they too have set up an account. Passive listening is not available, where a person in the child's orbit can be listened to on the parents' side without that person with the child knowing that they are being listened to. That might be a very sticky issue in states where that is not legal, however, the child can initiate either a call and put it on speaker or do a video chat, with or without the person in the room's permission. Our watch came with a sim card and a gift card for $20 for cell use which we did not have to currently use since the sim card from the previous watch was transferred and we already had cell service to it with its own telephone number. The Adventurer is new with more bells and whistles than earlier iterations. The customer rep said that updates are infrequent, but necessary to download. By the way, the reason that we are giving it a 4 star rating is because as I was getting ready to write this review today, the watch started sending messages about the GPS, one of the most important features. It is stating that device is out of range while that is not true or turned off, and that is not true. My son will be calling the toll free help line tomorrow and I hope that this issue can and will be immediately be resolved. The toll free number is available for free help for the life of the watch and as long as the child uses it.

Like every kid growing up in this digital age, my K-5 son wanted a phone. Well, he already got a laptop for school and ipad for games so there’s no real need in getting a smartphone. As his parents, we have concerns about the online safety of our children and the privacy risks. We feel that he is not ready yet to get a smartphone. Aside of online safety and privacy risks, we are also mindful of screen addiction. We don’t want our kids to be glued to their phone. On the other hand, getting a phone is not a bad idea. We need to be able to reach him if we can’t pick him up on time. Being able to track his whereabout at all times is not a bad idea as well. We have considered a number of options. He wanted a smartphone but we definitely do not want to give him that. Getting a talk only phone is not a good option as we think he would not be willingly bringing the phone everywhere he goes. The Spacetalk watch came and we’re glad to choose it. The number one consideration for us is to limit the ways in which our kid does his online activities thus making him safe. The watch enables us to communicate with our kid effectively without making us be worried about the privacy risks. Also, the watch has a ton of features that are both useful for parents and the child. For a phone/watch to work in the first place, it’s got to be something comfortable for the child to wear, durable and looks cool. The Spacetalk watch fit to those criteria. This is important, there’s no point in getting a watch if your child does not want to wear it or is not happy about it. The design of the watch looks quite techy hence the coolness factor. For a kid, wearing something cool is huge. Since the watch has an IP 67 rating and equipped with gorilla glass display, we’re not too worried about its durability. As in the case of even the most high-end smartphone, getting a screen protector for the watch is advisable. As for the features, the watch integrates seamlessly with the Spacetalk parental app in your mobile phone so parents can have control of the device. The watch has a SOS alert feature, which is very useful to immediately alert parent of emergency. The school mode limits the child to use the phone during school hours. Our kid also likes to take pictures and set his own alarm clock and reminders. Overall, this is a solid product. The watch has made his older brother quite jealous so we’re seriously considering getting another watch.