Recommend me a mobile?

mysk_girl

After a lot of soul searching and discussions, I have decided to give up having a smart phone. It's taking up my life, I'm not doing the things I want to do. Basically, I think I would be happier without one. And who doesn't want to be happier?

I've decided to sell my iPhone. It's water damaged slightly (the earphone jack is red and it doesn't play through the external speaker anymore, but GPS/WIFI/phone all works and screen is intact). I reckon I could possibly get £150 on eBay for it? Is this realistic?

Anyway, I need to replace it. And I need your help! What do you think would fulfil the following criteria

1/ works on Vodafone. I'm resigned to sticking with my £26/moth contract. It's up in 14 months, so I'm giving the "no smartphone" experiment a year. If I can't stand it, I can upgrade a year from now and get back into the digital thing!

2/ has a decent camera. I do take lots of photos of my kids with my phone and it would be nice to have these at printable quality.

3/ robust. 3 kids under 6 - need I say more?!? (Although it was me that dropped it in the sink...)

4/ not more than £80 - I guess either sim free or on Vodafone PAYG... I'm assuming here I can get a new SIM card from Vodafone?

5/ if it has basic Internet so I can check email that would be great. This is not as important as the above criteria.

Any ideas, people? And any of you think I'm a bit mad?

grumbler

AFAIK, robustness and decent camera don't come together.
>> tough phone, decent camera, not touch screen

mysk_girl

Hmm, OK.

Camera is more important then. If I make my phone very boring the kids won't want it anyway! Apart from the baby who chews everything, guess that's my responsibility to keep it away from her!

19lottie82

mysk_girl wrote: »

I've decided to sell my iPhone. It's water damaged slightly (the earphone jack is red and it doesn't play through the external speaker anymore, but GPS/WIFI/phone all works and screen is intact). I reckon I could possibly get £150 on eBay for it? Is this realistic?

Unless it's an iphone 5, I doubt it.

I just sold a pristine condition 4 (32gb), boxed with accessories for £160, if that helps?

mysk_girl

No, 4S 16GB in white. Mazuma will give me £88 Argos vouchers for it, thought maybe I could get more on eBay. I searched completed listings and completely unresponsive phones of that spec were going for up for £110... Seeing as mine only has slight damage, I thought maybe a bit more. Oh well.

grumbler

Try http://www.omio .com/deals/pay-as-you-go then.
Filters are in the tabs. Then sort by price.

Nokia Asha 300 has 5Mp camera and is £50 at CPW on Virgin, but almost certainly not locked.