Pre-teens with phones?

From reading the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday April 12, 2005; I came across an interesting point about cell phones. Yes, now days everyone seems to have one but this one is built without a normal key pad. It is built with only certain number of keypads that you (the parent) can save only the numbers that your child can call. This will cut down on the ability of children not using the phone to talk to friends. It comes already with a 911 button and then the parent's can put in their numbers to be reached at. So that the child can directly reach them when they need to.
This is a type of phone I am all for the children having.

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20050309/d_cellphone09.art.htm