KOMY Phone in brief.

Short text

The KOMY Phone is a children’s phone for children aged about 5 to 11 that manages without open internet, without an app store and without messengers. On the phone – a fully set-up Samsung Galaxy A07 – lives Komy, a German-speaking companion with his own voice who listens, marvels along and needs the child’s help: not a tutor, not an answer machine, no grades. Plus a complete children’s encyclopedia with more than 5,000 articles that works without the internet. Parents reach their child by voice message, learn when the child has arrived safely and have an SOS button; what the child does with Komy stays on the child’s phone, and there is no cloud account for the child. When the child outgrows it, the parents release the device and it becomes a normal Android smartphone. The KOMY Phone is developed by Sysea in Laubach (Hesse, Germany). Price: €169 once at the launch price, KOMY service from €4.99 a month, cancellable monthly.

Facts

• Product: KOMY Phone (children’s phone) and the app KOMY Phone – Eltern (Google Play, free); language: German
• Companion: Komy, in two figures, with a synthetic voice and sentences written and checked in advance; no language model on the phone
• Device: Samsung Galaxy A07 (SM-A075F/DS), 6.7-inch display, 5,000 mAh battery, Android
• Cannot: browser, app store, social media, calls other than 112, messages from strangers
• Can: voice messages with the parents, SOS with location, safe places, school mode, alarm clock, timetable, a hundred stories, 14 learning games, reading aloud
• Children’s encyclopedia offline: 5,107 articles from Klexikon and MiniKlexikon (Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien, ZUM; licence CC BY-SA), twelve fields of knowledge, typo-tolerant search; parents switch on sensitive topics
• Not a throw-away device: when the child outgrows it, the parents release the device with their Komy code; after that it is a normal Android smartphone
• Price: €169 once (launch price, regular €199), service €5.99/month or €60/year with data SIM, €4.99/€49 with own SIM, family rate €149 permanently
• Delivery: Germany and Austria
• Maker: Sysea, owner Markus Ealy, Auf dem Hofdriesch 11, 35321 Laubach, Germany

Encyclopedia content from the Klexikon and MiniKlexikon of the Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien (ZUM), licence CC BY-SA. The Klexikon is an independent project; Sysea is not affiliated with ZUM.

Logo and images

Free to use for reports about the KOMY Phone.

• Logo, 512 × 512 pixels (PNG)
• Komy and the home screen, 1200 × 630 pixels (JPG)
• Komy waving (WebP, transparent)
• The two Komys (WebP, transparent)

A photo of the real device will follow with the first production units.

Contact

Markus Ealy, me@sysea.de