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  • ballyblack
    ballyblack Posts: 5,134 Forumite
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    Apps don't load or if they do it takes ages and ages with me having to restart the device

    its a £29.99 cheapie phone with hardly any memory for Apps. (which can't be upgraded just by inserting a SD card)

    Cut your losses and bin it!
  • pmduk wrote: »
    It's a phone, it makes calls, sends texts. You knew you weren't going to get much from your quote [from a different post]. You can hardly complain that you've got what you paid for. A rubbish phone.

    That's helpful how?
  • ballyblack wrote: »
    its a £29.99 cheapie phone with hardly any memory for Apps. (which can't be upgraded just by inserting a SD card)

    Cut your losses and bin it!

    Im not going to bin it I'm going to ask for a refund. I don't need sneery opinions on a MONEY SAVING site.

    The phone should do what it claims to do, doesn't matter how much it costs.
  • Im not going to bin it I'm going to ask for a refund. I don't need sneery opinions on a MONEY SAVING site.

    The phone should do what it claims to do, doesn't matter how much it costs.

    The phone does exactly what it's supposed to do within it's very limited abilities, sadly Tesco might oblige you.
  • The phone does exactly what it's supposed to do within it's very limited abilities, sadly Tesco might oblige you.

    You're not hearing me.

    I expect it to handle basic apps.

    It can't.

    I've used cheap smartphones before without a problem.

    What you're doing is making excuses for allowing retaielrs to sell cheap products with no protection. This is a ridiculous attitude to have on a consumer rights website. YOu should leave
  • You're not hearing me.

    I expect it to handle basic apps.

    It can't.

    I've used cheap smartphones before without a problem.

    What you're doing is making excuses for allowing retaielrs to sell cheap products with no protection. This is a ridiculous attitude to have on a consumer rights website. YOu should leave

    Hahahahahaha, if it's all the same with you love I've stay.
  • Hahahahahaha, if it's all the same with you love I've stay.

    That's unfortunate because so far all you've done is argue for retailers to sell cheap products at the expense of consumers which seems a bizarre position to take. You've also demsontrated that you don't understand what a smartphone is; the functionality of apps isn't a bonus, it's part of what a smartphone is. They aren't designed to be just phones with some gimmicky extras. All of it is meant to be functional. YOu don't seem to grasp that for some reason and thought you could just start an argument by criticising me for wanting to exercise my rights as a consumer.
  • pmduk
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    edited 4 October 2018 at 1:55PM
    It'll probably handle one thing at a time, very slowly, because of the limited processor and memory you can expect for £29.99. It won't multi-task or be capable of things a phone 10 times the price is expected to do. There's a difference between money-saving and being a cheap-skate.
    That's helpful how?


    My earlier comment was helpful in reminding you that generally, you get what you pay for, as indeed, you've found.
  • Cornucopia
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    edited 4 October 2018 at 2:01PM
    Order order! ;)

    Cheaper phones are definitely going to be more limited in capabilities and in raw power.

    Some of the big phone retailers now have cooling-off periods for new phones, and even if they don't there is nothing wrong with challenging them to replace the phone with something more capable - although there may be a charge for this.

    In terms of VFM and price-points, there's a middle ground of price vs. capability to be had. I've had a Samsung Galaxy S6 for a couple of years, and it was original bundled at £0 with a monthly contract. It's a very capable phone, and has most of the sensors and gadgets that a frequent but inevitably low-tech user needs.

    I think there's something to be said for going for a 1-2 year old design in a phone, rather than the latest models.
  • pmduk wrote: »
    It'll probably handle one thing at a time, very slowly, because of the limited processor and memory you can expect for £29.99. It won't multi-task or be capable of things a phone 10 times the price is expected to do. There's a difference between money-saving and being a cheap-skate.




    My earlier comment was helpful in reminding you that generally, you get what you pay for, as indeed, you've found.

    It isn't an issue of handling multiple apps simultaneously, but that nothing works at all. I tried installing swiftkey keyboard earlier, i couldn't even do it because it just kept freezing.

    I used ot have a vodafone smart 7 which is as cheap as it gets. Same specs IIRC. WOrked fine for me.
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