Orange contract - lost mobile

stevie_wonder

Hi All

I have a contract with Orange with 15 months remaining. I lost my mobile on Saturday afternoon. I cancelled the SIM, and am not insured (apart from house insurance). Can anyone recommend a cheap unlocked phone or a cheap Orange PAYG phone that I can buy and then swap SIM for my contract SIM? I need a phone with Bluetooth, no other requirements apart from that.

Thanks in advance,

Stevie Wonder!

richardjames73

Depends on your definition of cheap. This is quite a nice phone for £85.

http://www.orangeaccessories.co.uk/reconditioned_mobile_phone/orange/nokia/6280/orapp.html/

gaming_guy

richardjames73 wrote: »

Depends on your definition of cheap. This is quite a nice phone for £85.

http://www.orangeaccessories.co.uk/reconditioned_mobile_phone/orange/nokia/6280/orapp.html/

its a nice but buggy phone. ive heard loads of reports of these going wrong

vietpup

You can get a Samsung E250 or a Sony Ericsson K750i on Orange pay as you go for £69.99 (if paying via debit/credit card) at Phones4u.

You will also get £10 back if going via Quidco. So it works out to be £59.99 and you have a spare Orange PAYG sim card that you can use as your magic number.

I personally would go for the Sony Ericsson K750i as it has much better features than the Samsung E250 and it also comes with a memory card and a 2.0 megapixel auto focus camera.

Hope that helps.

JAYMARSH2005

The main problems with it (6280) our it seems to start switching itself off all the time, also the slide on it is very brittle, it seems to be held on with a bit of bluetack !!! For the price I would stay well clear of it.

shellsuit

stevie_wonder wrote: »

Hi All

I have a contract with Orange with 15 months remaining. I lost my mobile on Saturday afternoon. I cancelled the SIM, and am not insured (apart from house insurance). Can anyone recommend a cheap unlocked phone or a cheap Orange PAYG phone that I can buy and then swap SIM for my contract SIM? I need a phone with Bluetooth, no other requirements apart from that.

Thanks in advance,

Stevie Wonder!

No Braille keypad then?

stevie_wonder

shellsuit wrote: »

No Braille keypad then?

You recommend the braille keypad then?

stevie_wonder

vietpup wrote: »

You can get a Samsung E250 or a Sony Ericsson K750i on Orange pay as you go for £69.99 (if paying via debit/credit card) at Phones4u.

You will also get £10 back if going via Quidco. So it works out to be £59.99 and you have a spare Orange PAYG sim card that you can use as your magic number.

I personally would go for the Sony Ericsson K750i as it has much better features than the Samsung E250 and it also comes with a memory card and a 2.0 megapixel auto focus camera.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for that - I like sony ericsson and had one the phone before last. I tried looking on the website for phones 4u but couldn't see it on there. Is the offer instore only or do you have a link?

anonymousie

gaming_guy wrote: »

its a nice but buggy phone. ive heard loads of reports of these going wrong

I have one (on 3 just going into a £5 deal with them I think as they can't do an N95 upgrade to match on line deals) and it is OK y'know. I am careful with it, but since it has had a software upgrade it is fine- usual poor battery life though. 18 months down the line I think it will do DH or DD for another 12/12 for the cheap deal with 3.