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Best Buy cheap basic mobile phone.

patchwork_cat
patchwork_cat Posts: 5,874 Forumite
I bought the basic Nokia that was on sale at Christmas in Asda for £20 with £20 free minutes. This was an emergency phone for the car. Unfortunatley stupidly while I was at the dentist on tuesday someone samshed the car window and nicked it! I thought no one would nick it as it was seriously basic, but it appears there is a scam atm where they nick a phone and try and sell it back to you - yes someone did ring trying to get us to collect it 4 hours later from the roughest area in our town!

Anyway - ramble finished, I want to know what is the best deal atm on a basic phone - maybe one with free minutes on payg?

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  • mikegahan
    mikegahan Posts: 280 Forumite
    Hi
    here is a link to Caphone Warehouse online

    http://shop.carphonewarehouse.com/pay-as-you-go/

    Both the Motorola and the Nokia are good phones and the price includes £10 credit. As regards free minutes are you thinking of these schemes where you top up some much each month and get so many minutes? believe O2 do such a scheme but the best way is to check on their website. Vodafone and O2 also do good SIM only deals where you get a sim and so many minutes eper month on a 30 day contract. You could put this is your cheap CPW pay as you go phone

    Advice about phones "if it ain't nailed down, somone will nick it"
  • The Sony Ericsson J120i is a great little phone. The one I purchased this week from the CPW was unlocked!
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