KOMY Phone in brief.

Short text

The KOMY Phone is a children’s phone for children aged about 5 to 12 that manages without open internet, without an app store and without messengers. On the phone – a fully set-up Samsung Galaxy A17 5G or Blackview Wave 7C – 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 send their child short fixed messages that Komy tells them, learn when the child has arrived safely and are told at once about an SOS – with the location and, if the child wants, a short voice message; 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 the Galaxy A17 5G becomes a normal Android smartphone. The KOMY Phone is developed by Sysea in Laubach (Hesse, Germany). Price: €199 once, KOMY service from €4.99 a month, cancellable monthly.

Facts

• Product: KOMY Phone (children’s phone) and the parents’ app (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 A17 5G (SM-A176B/DS), 6.7-inch display, 5,000 mAh battery, or Blackview Wave 7C, 6.56-inch display, 5,000 mAh battery; both Android
• Cannot: browser, app store, social media, calls, messages from strangers
• Can: short fixed messages from the parents, walkie-talkie, SOS with location and a short voice message, safe places, school mode, alarm clock, timetable, a hundred stories, 21 learning games, reading aloud, Komy time (a daily time budget set by the parents)
• 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 in the parents’ app; after that it is a normal Android smartphone
• Price: €199 (Galaxy A17 5G) or €159 (Blackview Wave 7C) once, service €5.99/month or €60/year with data SIM, €4.99/€49 with own SIM, family rate €149 permanently (with the Blackview Wave 7C)
• 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 · Instagram: @komy_phone