Recommend a small smartphone?

prowla

AlecEiffel wrote: »

It is for just over a hundred quid, the OP wants to spend £100-200 on a sim free phone. And you won't find a new ip4 for that.

Nope - a s/h iPhone 4 (16 GB) is a better buy than a new Nokia 520 (8 GB), and they can be had for under £100.

And, with Apple, if it goes wrong you can give them £119 and they'll give you a brand new one to replace it.

Alternatively, an iPhone 4S can be had for under £150.

bob_bobson

We have a Nokia 520 and a Huawei Y300 in the house - both are excellent for the money - the 520 is very good quality. Check out the reviews on websites such as Techradar for opinions not clouded by iLove.

prowla

bob_bobson wrote: »

We have a Nokia 520 and a Huawei Y300 in the house - both are excellent for the money - the 520 is very good quality. Check out the reviews on websites such as Techradar for opinions not clouded by iLove.

Compare the 520 to an older Nokia (eg. the 6700 or 6301), or to a Blackberry, or to a Samsung Galaxy, and it just feels cheap and nasty.

Supatramp

On my recommendation after reading about it on here, a friend has just bought a Y300 from CPW. There's a thread on here 89 pages long on it.
My friend upgraded from a Samsung with a 3" screen and is very pleased with it, it's running JB. Only £80 including the £10 top-up, seems a bargain!

Shas21

I've got a Samsung Galaxy ACE, and I love it
You can pick them up for approx £100.00 (or less) sim free, PAYG

cookie365

Shas21 wrote: »

I've got a Samsung Galaxy ACE, and I love it
You can pick them up for approx £100.00 (or less) sim free, PAYG

Hardly a major upgrade from a Wildfire is it?

katejo

ivavoucher wrote: »

Slightly more than you wanted to pay but a top phone: galaxy S3

or for £150 ish, the galaxy S3 mini

I have the S3 mini as my first smartphone. I like it but the battery does go down very quickly even though I am a light user . Perhaps I could buy a better battery for it ?

Enfieldian

prowla wrote: »

Nope - a s/h iPhone 4 (16 GB) is a better buy than a new Nokia 520 (8 GB), and they can be had for under £100.

Alternatively, an iPhone 4S can be had for under £150.

Do you have any links? I am currently looking and even eBay ones are selling for well over these figures unless trashed.

jaydeeuk1

I've got a lumia 520, its a fantastic little phone. Yes, its plastic but doesn't feel as flimsy as a Samsung galaxy s3, which you daren't drop. I've dropped mine a hundred times, let daughter play with it (and bang it around). However, the OS has never crashed in 8 months (can't say that about android) and the phone works great. Bad points are the camera is poor, (was hoping for near nokia n95 shots, but not as good), lack of compass is an issue in some apps, as is the 512mb ram (some apps won't appear in marketplace, mainly games,makes no difference to the speed or fluidity of the OS)


Android just feels like a toy operating system after using win phone. Sure you could get a second hand iphone, but its second hand and its an iphone. Both massive negatives imo. Also with Win phone, you can pretty much do things with a lowly dual core and 512mb ram, that android or ios require quad core and 2gb


If I was to buy a lumia now, have a look at the nokia 625 for £149.99 at phones4u, its worth the extra £70 over the 520 imo. The builtin sat nav is excellent, and nokia music is pretty good too for free.

wba31

Daz2009 wrote: »

I don't get the i-phone love in,my girlfriend has a 4 (or 4S I'm not sure which) and I was completely underwhelmed by it.Much prefer my Razr i.
They say Apple products are intuitive to use,well whenever I've asked her if her phone does so and so or where the settings are to change something she has to hand it to me lol

Is it intuitive to you though? just because your partner cant be arsed to do it doesnt make it unintuitive? my wife always get me to do stuff on her phones, not because she doesnt know how to, just because she'd rather paint her nails while i do it...