Teenager wants new flip phone maybe with old sim.

simpleton99

Can anyone help as I don't know much about sims and phones?

My daughter wants a new smart flip type phone for her birthday. She currently has a payg orange nokia with 5 free texts a day, and she wants to keep the free texts - or find a better deal. She doesn't make that many voice calls.

Can we buy a new phone, unlock and use the old card? Is that the best idea? Which phone offers best value with camera, and some fancy extras?

Any help much appreciated! It's all too compicated for me.

Thanks

gringo2

Try www.orangeaccessories.co.uk click on reconditioned phones ,and you should come across a Motorola V545 flip phone with built in camera.All you have to do is swap sim cards and away you go.
£49.99

Februarycat

I bought a flip phone off my friend and just put my old sim card in and it works fine.

simpleton99

thanks for this - are all sims interchageable then? where does unlocking come into it? it can't be so simple!

plumb1_2

simpleton99 wrote:

thanks for this - are all sims interchageable then? where does unlocking come into it? it can't be so simple!

If you are using the same sim, ie orange sim into a new orange phone then it will work, the problem you have is when you try to use a orange sim into a o2 phone, etc etc., then you will have to get the phone unlocked.

kai666

keep hold of the sim if it is the 5 free texts a day for life version, you not find anything as good at the moment

Me_Need_Help

there is a good deal to top up 10 quid a month and get 300 free text or u cud pay moire and get more...
Orange.
Orange.

Top up cost

Free Texts

Orange World Usage

£10

300

1MB

£20

600

1MB

£30

1000

1MB

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/simoffer?WT.mc_id=directresponse_freesimpack

Edinburghlass_2

kai666 wrote:

keep hold of the sim if it is the 5 free texts a day for life version, you not find anything as good at the moment

I agree with this post so try and get a phone that is easily unlocked like a Nokia or go for something from Orange and put in your old simcard.

My simcard is my orignal with these 5 free texts and I just update the phone and use my old sim.

simpleton99

So all I need is an orange payg flip phone, or another I can unlock, which I suppose might be a pain.

Thanks for all that info, any advice/expeiences of particular flip models available also welcome!

espresso

simpleton99 wrote:

So all I need is an orange payg flip phone, or another I can unlock, which I suppose might be a pain.

Thanks for all that info, any advice/expeiences of particular flip models available also welcome!

First of all, don't do anything to lose your five free texts a day as this alone is worth over £180 per annum if texts cost 10p each and you won't find a better deal now!



Although you can simply put an old SIM into a new Orange handset, if you do buy an Orange PAYG phone, you can simply ring up and have your old account transferred across to the new SIM supplied with the phone. This has the advantage of using the latest available profile Orange SIM, which will most likely store twice as many texts and phone numbers along with £1 credit added. You may also be able to check your credit by requesting a text message, rather than by listening to a voice message etc.

You may find what you are looking for here with free delivery.

:T

simpleton99

thanks for that - no we don't want to lose the free texts - if we switch the account over to the new sim, what's to stop orange taking them away!?? They must be keen to lose accounts like that...