Mobile phone

boyse7en

My ancient Nokia is playing up so I want to replace it.

Don't need anything flash, it just needs to:

Phone
text
Bluetooth
good standby battery life (at least 3-4 days)
basic camera
a built in MP3 player/radio wouold be good but not essential

Any advice on a cheap model that would fit the bill?

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Stuart_W

Depends exactly how basic you are happy with.

Samsung E2121B (refurbished) has all the features you mentioned and is 90p plus £10 topup on 02 from mobiles.co.uk (£3 cashback available via quidco). That's £7.90 for the phone including a £10 top up. It will almost certainly be unlocked, so if you don't want the 02 SIM card with the £10 credit, cash in the balance with getpoundsback reducing your total outlay to just £1.30! (£3 quidco cashback and £6.11 getpoundsback cashback)

smith121

I too agree with you Stuart

ada1988

what you require are just basic functions.
so i recommend you just change for a low-price samsung or Nokia is fine.

boyse7en

Stuart_W wrote: »

Depends exactly how basic you are happy with.

Samsung E2121B (refurbished) has all the features you mentioned and is 90p plus £10 topup on 02 from mobiles.co.uk (£3 cashback available via quidco). That's £7.90 for the phone including a £10 top up. It will almost certainly be unlocked, so if you don't want the 02 SIM card with the £10 credit, cash in the balance with getpoundsback reducing your total outlay to just £1.30! (£3 quidco cashback and £6.11 getpoundsback cashback)

Thanks Stuart, that is certainly cheap, but the camera is a bit too basic at just 0.3 megapixels.
All the phones have a small internal memory that is expandable. Do they require expensive proprietary memory, or do they take an SD card or something similar?


I've had a look through that website and the Nokia 2730 looks reasonable. If I want to keep my existing phone number, do I just swap my SIM car into the new phone, or do I have to notify Orange or somebody to transfer the number?