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Decent phone for £~50?

Hi,

I'm looking into a phone for my sister for around 50 quid. I know the LG Cookie is available from Tesco Direct and is fairly well featured for £49.99 but she doesn't like touchscreen phones.

Would there be an alternative non-touchscreen phone available which has features such as MicroSD slot, MP3 player, camera etc which people can reccommend from experience? Preferably one without the horrible crashing issues which plague many phones with badly written software/OS.

Many thanks in advance for any advice.
Adam

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  • Snakeeyes21
    Snakeeyes21 Posts: 2,527 Forumite
    edited 16 June 2010 at 7:51PM
    I would recommend a sony ericsson W395.
    Quite a decent phone for what it costs.
    £49.79 including the £10 topup, you can get £6.50 cashback from quidco.
    http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/pay-as-you-go/o2/sony-ericsson-w395/
    Doesnt take a micro sd but memory can be expanded using M2 cards

    2 Megapixel Camera
    Scratch resistant surface
    Walkman®
    TrackID music recognition
    Motion-based games
    FM radio with RDS
    EDGE and GPRS
    Memory Stick Micro (M2) card slot for expandable memory
    WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Openwave), RSS reader
    Messaging: SMS, EMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
    Dimensions: 96 x 47 x 14.9 mm
    Weight: 96 grams
    Standby Time: Up to 480hrs
    Talk Time: Up to 8hrs
    sony_ericsson_w395_titanium_offer.gif

    edit: bloody shift key
  • bloodnok
    bloodnok Posts: 298 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Only £6.50 cashback from Quidco !
  • Snakeeyes21
    Snakeeyes21 Posts: 2,527 Forumite
    missed the shift key :rotfl:
  • fredthefish
    fredthefish Posts: 40 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    haha - I actually mentioned to her that it might possibly get £36 quid cashback (was a bit skeptical) but even with that she said it'd be useless to her without a microSD slot :(

    Thanks for the suggestion though. Any other ideas would be appreciated!
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