Living with a HomeFón.
Asleep until someone needs it.
Most of the day the HomeFón rests in its fixed spot with the screen dark, part of the hallway like the landline was.
When it rings, or when someone taps the screen, it wakes up, ready to call or text.
There's no passcode and nothing to scroll. It does its job and goes back to sleep.
The home screen is the whole phone.
When the phone wakes, your child taps their name at the top to open their inbox. Below are their messages, from the people you've approved. At the bottom, under “In case of emergency”, they can ring their emergency contacts in one tap or make an emergency call. There is nothing else to find, set up or scroll.
When someone calls your HomeFón, it rings, and whoever is nearest picks it up. Only approved people can ring through.
Texts from numbers you haven't approved never reach your child, and neither does any photo or video. They're held in your dashboard for you to see.
Calling and texting, without the rest.
Who they can talk to.
Texting one person
Your child can text any approved contact. The other person just texts back as normal (SMS). On the HomeFón messages can't be forwarded or deleted.
Small group chats
Create group chats with your child and up to four approved contacts. Everyone else receives the conversation as a normal group MMS on their own phone.
HomeFón to HomeFón
When a friend's family also has a HomeFón, the children can message each other over Wi-Fi. Away from Wi-Fi, messages send over mobile data. A text sent when either phone has no internet is charged like any text. Both sets of parents approve the link.
More than one child?
Each child has their own inbox on the one phone, each with their own messages. Texts from a contact you set to one child go to that child. Texts from a contact your children share, like Granny, go to all of them, unless the text starts with one child's tag, like @Aoife. Profiles don't have passwords, so respecting each other's messages is something to agree as a family.
Change settings easily.
Want a later quiet time on Friday, a new contact, or to set a GoFón trip? Log in to the parent dashboard from any browser, update the setting, and the phone picks it up. You never need to touch the phone itself.
