New phone for an oldie

bjbyorkshire · 7 February 2015 at 11:05PM

I've posted a longish thread over on the phones board but only had one reply so I wondered if any of you oldies could give me advice on the Samsung s3 mini phone and which PAYG taftff I ought to look at buying.

It's for hubby. He only uses it very occasionally, mostly to ring me. He never texts so it is mainly the cost of the phone to buy outright and the per minute cost of phone calls.

The market is very confusing and hubby is a bit of a dinosaur with using phone and Internet, although we do have an I pad and he can look up stuff and surf the net on that, so is happy with the touch screen technology.

Help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Anne_Marie_2 · 8 February 2015 at 5:47AM

See that you are getting more advice on your original thread, so better sticking with that one, to avoid confusion.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5171305

bjbyorkshire · 8 February 2015 at 11:48AM

Yes, Grumbler has given me some good advice over there. I just thought that the over 50's thread might have advice from folks who don't necessarily do technical speak. I can't post links from other sites easily on my I pad and don't always understand the technical terminology. It's amazing how little patience some people have if you can't grasp what they are talking about, especially when they use abbreviations that you have never heard of.

Grumbler has indeed helped me enormously but if any of you oldies want to add any advice I'm still interested in hearing it and will keep an eye on both threads for a while.

I love you ve Martin Lewis's site, twirling round the different forum threads is better than reading a book or watching mindless twaddle on TV in the evenings

itsanne · 8 February 2015 at 12:12PM

What's the problem posting links from your iPad? I'm on one just now and don't have a difficulty. Perhaps I can help.

bjbyorkshire · 8 February 2015 at 2:29PM

Hi itsanne, thanks, well..... I can copy a piece of text and paste it to pages ok.

If I am looking on Sainsburys website and see a phone that I want to ask you to look at I'm stuck at this point.

Presumably I would have Martins website open at the top of my I pad, then I open Sainsburys website with the phone details, what do I do from here please???

Thanks for being interested in helping. I'm no numpty but I do have to write things like this down in order to do the same thing again in a few weeks time as I will have forgotten what to do by then.lol.

Thanks Beverley

zygurat789 · 8 February 2015 at 3:57PM

bjbyorkshire wrote: »

Hi itsanne, thanks, well..... I can copy a piece of text and paste it to pages ok.

If I am looking on Sainsburys website and see a phone that I want to ask you to look at I'm stuck at this point.

Presumably I would have Martins website open at the top of my I pad, then I open Sainsburys website with the phone details, what do I do from here please???

Thanks for being interested in helping. I'm no numpty but I do have to write things like this down in order to do the same thing again in a few weeks time as I will have forgotten what to do by then.lol.

Thanks Beverley

Put cursor on address bar
Click copy
Move cursor to target space
Click paste

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/index.php

Does that work?

bjbyorkshire · 8 February 2015 at 4:54PM

http://www.phoneshopbysainsburys.co.uk/samsung-galaxy-s3-blue.html

Just trying out the cut and paste thingy!

bjbyorkshire · 8 February 2015 at 4:59PM

Yes that did work so I hope to be able to do that in future. Thanks for the lesson Zygurat.

So ..... Looking at this phone from my link does it look like a sim free phone that I can use on orange for now but change to Sainsburys cheap call plan or anyone else's in the future?

Thoughts much appreciated

bjbyorkshire · 8 February 2015 at 5:08PM

Home / Phones / Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (Blue)

Hells bells, I just realised that the first link I posted said sim free but was £150 so I've just posted the one I had my eye on and it's tthe mini at £75 but now I'm thinking that this one is actually tied to a £10 bundle.

So the young man in Sainsburys was wrong if he thought it was sim free. At the great price of £79.

I really don't want to be tied to one network for any length of time.

I'm getting really frustrated now.

Hubby has just gone out, I've tried twice to ring him from the house phone to his old mobile, message said he was unavailable. He rang me and asked if I did in fact ring him. So the old phone rings out but is not getting incoming calls. That makes a new phone all the more urgent now.

Bummer!

Anne_Marie_2 · 9 February 2015 at 10:54AM

Tesco have a couple of sim free unlocked phones for under £100, both of which get decent reviews.

http://www.tesco.com/direct/motorola-moto-e-black/162-0286.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=162-0286

http://www.tesco.com/direct/microsoft-lumia-535-black/375-4682.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=375-4682

Also you could buy the Samsung phone at Sainsbury, and pay to have it unlocked. I can't advise you on that, as don't live in UK.