looking for a feature phone with "find my phone" capability

tafelmoneysaver

Hi,

I'm looking for a feature phone with an onboard GPS, with a remote locate feature.

Trying to avoid iOS and Android for cost but also I want multiday battery life, but the ability to locate the phone remotely. A reluctant plan B would be a sub £100 Android but would prefer a Nokia or equivalent feature phone.

 

I've searched many retailer websites but it doesn't look like something the standard Nokias and Alcatels support, but any ideas from this collective brain?

Many thanks

JJ_Egan

No Android OS cuts your models dramatically .

[Deleted User]

Motorola some budget power phones with huge batteries but it is Android.

Neil_Jones

The "find my phone" thing is part of Android and iOS, so you don't need anything separate.

However if you're trying to avoid these you're pretty much cutting off your nose to spite your face.  There are 2G phones available that use little power and can get a few days out of one charge, but they won't have the "find my phone" thing and you'll probably be stuck with what the phone comes with.

tafelmoneysaver

Thanks,  I'll take a look at the Motorola phones. Main reason for avoiding Android/OS is that I've had a poor user experience at the cheaper end of the market. All I was looking for is a call/text function with remote locate so had hoped there was something to fit the market.

beckstar1975

I've just bought a moto g9 play that is android and was just over £100 - coming from Apple I'm v surprised how good it is. And has find my phone (as some of the family are on IoS I've installed Life 360 too so we can all see each other)

Battery life on this is well over a day and I'm on my phone for hours and hours a day

Neil_Jones

tafelmoneysaver said:

Thanks,  I'll take a look at the Motorola phones. Main reason for avoiding Android/OS is that I've had a poor user experience at the cheaper end of the market. All I was looking for is a call/text function with remote locate so had hoped there was something to fit the market.

As a general rule phones you get what you pay for.  Cheaper phones tend to come with less memory/slower processors, less storage, lower  camera quality (camera quality is almost always the the first thing to get cut with the price), smaller capacity batteries, quality of the screen may be lower, they may stop receiving updates sooner or receive none at all...  There has to be a trade off.  If a budget phone wiped the floor with a more expensive one whats the point of the premium product in the first place?

tafelmoneysaver

Neil_Jones said:

tafelmoneysaver said:

Thanks,  I'll take a look at the Motorola phones. Main reason for avoiding Android/OS is that I've had a poor user experience at the cheaper end of the market. All I was looking for is a call/text function with remote locate so had hoped there was something to fit the market.

As a general rule phones you get what you pay for.  Cheaper phones tend to come with less memory/slower processors, less storage, lower  camera quality (camera quality is almost always the the first thing to get cut with the price), smaller capacity batteries, quality of the screen may be lower, they may stop receiving updates sooner or receive none at all...  There has to be a trade off.  If a budget phone wiped the floor with a more expensive one whats the point of the premium product in the first place?

Fully agree, you can't get 6gb ram and 128gb for sub £100 but I've got a phone that has that so hoped something less functional was out there. Thank for the advice

getmore4less

£80

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/xiaomi-redmi-9-64gb-4gb-smartphone-5020mahhelio-g80nfc-ps79-with-code-at-xiaomi-uk-3701608

forgotmyname

Android phones for sub £50 and even some for £30 if your willing to import it and wait  approx 14 days. 

Surprising spec for such a low price.  Youtuber reviewing them was shocked an actual phone turned

up and not something totally different.

tafelmoneysaver

Just to update, I managed to get a new Nokia 6300 4G which runs KaiOS for £38 on eBay. It promised GPS and WiFi in the specs.

Out of the box, I can send the phone's current location via WhatsApp and do a remote wipe/lock via the KaiOS account, and sync google email, contacts and calendar entries. 

And still on 49% battery life after 4 days of light usage.

So I've got about 75% of my requirements list filled, just need to work out if I can live stream the location :-) The KaiOS Activity app promises a Strava link so maybe.. If not, might see if I can dust off some HTML and Javascript skills to write an app