Child Friendly Smartphones

Smartphones have worked their way deep into our lives and have become indispensable for work and socialising but many children want them too and that brings a whole host of problems with kids accessing inappropriate and harmful content.
Australia's government are ahead of the curve on this one and are introducing legislation to ban children under 16 from social media although the details on exactly how they will do that are sketchy but it is an idea being picked up by other Governments.
Some say it should be down to the Parents to police what their children access online and you may be able to do that on a computer in the front room but on a phone it is very difficult so it should fall to the Social Media companies themselves but as we know, they won't do it and age verification is easy to circumnavigate so that only leaves phones which restrict access to the internet and social media so they can only access services that are appropriate for them.
Many polls show that parents and teachers and even some children would like an effective restrictions on use of phones but a survey about when children receive a smartphone says most have a smartphone by the age 10 but as they cant possibly buy their own at that age, it must be given to them by the parents so the parents must hold some responsibility.
It is mostly agreed then that social media platforms and having 24/7 access to the Internet can be harmful to children but the only way i can see to prevent them is for the phone companies to  step up and sell phones with limited access to the harmful content and someone, somewhere must be developing it and I am sure would make a killing if they can get it right.