Best first mobile for 11 year old son?

niandsa

As the title says really... We had set a budget of £100 for a sim free handset so that we can get an ovivo sim for it. Hubby and I both have samsung handsets (s2 and s4) so we were looking for another android. It must have a touch screen. He is most likely to be googling and playing games at first with I imagine some texting later.

I have found the Samsung Galaxy Ace but it seems a little dated. The Galaxy Fame doesn't seem to get good reviews. The Galaxy Ace 2 is more pricey. Or should I stump up the cash and get a Nexus 4? Would 8gb be enough?

Thanks for any help. I'm going round in circles looking! :rotfl:

grumbler

>> Is this the new must have budget phone ?
>> What Budget SIM Free Smartphone??

Nexus 4?! He is just 11 for God's sake. Most likely he will have it lost/stolen/damaged...

Cisco001

huawei Y300

cookie365

HTC Wildfire S

Quite well put together too so should be fairly 11 year old proof

easy

cookie365 wrote: »

HTC Wildfire S

Quite well put together too so should be fairly 11 year old proof

2nd vote for one of these. Got one for DS (13 y.o.) as his Christmas pressie (got ours free on a Tesco capped contract £7.50 per month, so cheap as chips in my estimation)

Only problem is that it has difficulty moving some apps to the SD card, so my DS sometimes has to uninstall a game to make room for a new one. But it's easy enough to uninstall/reinstall as games go in and out of favour - kids tend to get tired of a game after a few weeks anyway.

It's fine putting music/photos/video to SD card tho, so no probs there.
Phone reception as good as my Samsung S2, & seems good at receiving WiFi signals too - we have a couple of spots around the house where the signal strength is dodgy, but Ds's phone copes.

We put a bumper case & screen protector on it before we gave it him, and it's survived being dropped & so forth this far (touching wood).

so a vote for this one.