Editor's Note: Product not yet tested. The following description is from the manufacturer.

Modern kids are texting wizards, able to thumb-type faster than their parents can touch-type on a keyboard. Some texts can be nasty, though, and texting while driving is at best foolish, at worst illegal. WebSafety's CellSafety 2.0 ($9.99/month, direct) aims to keep kids safe from dangers related to cell phone use such as cyberbullying and texting while driving.

WebSafety offers a number of protection packages. For $9.99/month you can protect one phone with CellSafety 2.0 or one PC with the company's WebSafetyPC ($9.99/month direct, 3.5 stars). A $14.99/month bundle protects three devices, either PCs or phones. And the $39.99/month family plan lets you protect an unlimited number of devices. An online console lets parents configure either product and view all activity logs.

Text Monitoring and Blocking
Just as WebSafetyPC scans instant messaging for dangerous conversations, CellSafety scans text messages. If it detects sexting, pedophile activity, cyberbullying, suicide talk, gun talk, or messages about drugs it alerts parents via text message and email. The alert identifies the child involved, the type of problem, and the date/time the event occurred.

CellSafety blocks access to porn Web sites from the phone, with three levels of filter strength. Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android ($3.99 direct) offers a similar high/medium/low Web filter.

BullGuard Mobile Security 10 ($29.95 direct) and eBlaster Mobile for Android ($69.95/year direct) monitor email correspondents, texts, voice calls, and photos. CellSafety is intended to warn parents of danger, not to invade the child's privacy, so it doesn't perform that level of monitoring.

Like PhoneSheriff ($49.97 direct), Mr. Number (Free), and others, CellSafety can block texts and calls to or from specified numbers. Parents can also define specific numbers as trusted. Text exchanged with these numbers won't be monitored.

Location Services
CellSafety's locations services, collectively called "WhereRU", get the phone's precise location using GPS, when available. On phones without GPS they use cell tower data to calculate the phone's location within a mile. Parents can choose "Locate Now" from the console to get the phone's location at any time.

Parents define location "Geo-Zones" by entering a central address and choosing a radius around that central point. CellSafety will send an alert each time the child enters or leaves a defined zone. The geo-fencing feature in iHound Mobile Phone and Family Tracker ($3.99/year direct) is similar, but it associates locations with times. For example, if the child isn't in school during school hours, iHound sends an alert.

Driving Safety
CellSafety's driving safety features also use the phone's location services. If "No Texting and Driving" is enabled, the phone won't allow texting from a moving vehicle. The "Speed Alert" option sends an alert to parents instantly if the phone is moving faster than a parent-defined limit. Location services can put a drain on the battery, so parents can choose to check speed and location more or less often.

When the phone is in a moving car, any attempt to send a text gets a "Blocked by CellSafety" screen. By touching the "I am a passenger" button the child can send an alert requesting permission to text. On receiving the alert the parent sends back a text that unlocks the phone for texting.

CellSafety 2.0 is available now for Android, BlackBerry, and Symbian phones directly from the WebSafety Web site.