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I keep getting told to change my 10+ year old Nokia !
It does what I want it to do except that typing messages is painfully slow with up to 5 key presses per letter!!
However the battery lasts ages ( partly because I turn it off most of the time and just check for messages every hour or so!!)

I suppose I would like to get emails on it and possibly a camera would be good.

What do you advise!
 
If you want a touch screen to give you a full keyboard, they all seem pretty much alike. Too big, fragile etc.
Back in the day, I could plug my nokia into my laptop and type the texts on that.
I also had a 3G dongle I could send texts from, but it's no use if people reply with a voice call.
 
Last year I succumbed to family pressure and purchased a smartphone, a MotoG something or other, size and weight of a house brick, if I put it in my pocket the ass of my breeks trails on the ground, decent camera though. Problem with it is it is far to feckin smart for me, it does nothing I tell it, preferring to take all its instructions from Google and Microsoft.
Its predecessor was a cheap tiny wee light weight fold up thing that just made and received phone calls, I abandoned it because fat fingers and a predictive text keyboard did not let me respond coherently to text messages, it is still in the drawer and the sim card will be going back in it any day.
 
My mum who is in her eighties had an old persons phone. She thought it was a pile of carp. My nephew gave her is old iphone 4 and she found it really easy to use. I guess that she would get on with any of the touchscreen phones.
 
If you do get a smartphone, I can fully recommend a lifeproof case. New phones have fragile screens and chassis. Lifeproofs aren't cheap but they will protect your phone more so than an insurance policy!
 
I can fully reccommend the Huawei Y6 2017. (came out in May last year).Lovely tactile phone, and probably the best android phone sub £100. I keep mine in a leather folding case.
 
Samsung B2710 user here. It can send and recieve calls/texts, basic email/internet/google/facebook. It has GPS a torch and its waterproof.

I stopped using smart phones a year or two back, the battery life is just silly and I was forever finding silly small things to look at (which probably didn't help battery life). Mine is a bit battered and bruised now but I'll look at getting a refurb from ebay when it dies.
 
I've just had a new Nokia 3310. Quite hard to get hold of but as you already have a Nokia they are the logical choice to minimise difficulty in learning to live with a new phone, as it's the same make.

Battery lasts ages, about a week or more on standby.
Has a camera and various other features.
 
Despite the Nokia label, it's not made by Nokia, but by a new company called HMD who bought the non smartphone business from Microsoft. MS bought Nokia phones a small number of years back to drive the Windows Phone business, which they effectively got out of last year... Clear?

I have an HMD Nokia 6 smartphone, and it's only just "ok"
 
I've got a Motorola G4 smartphone and wouldn't be without it. Does everything an iPhone does at a fraction of the price. Fairly robust and dropped into shallow sea water once and survived. Downside needs charging daily if used for anything apart from texting but all phones are like this. The size, whilst not huge, is enough for browsing and I rarely use tablet or laptop these days.
 
I have 2 x <£10 PAYG phones (UK & Portugal), one Nokia & one Samsung. Don't need or want contracts or smart phones as we have 4G + tablets and notebook on board for emails, net, etc. TomTom in cars.
 
wombat88 said:
Lidl did an offer on phones...less than £10. They are phones...
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For a while I had a basic Nokia from Argos for similar money.
I just wanted a small phone that was always in my pocket, even if I was up a ladder or something.

The problem with the cheap options is that they won't be 4G, some are not even 3G, so there are places where you won't get a signal but a new phone will.

These days I sometimes want internet when I'm out and about and people who ring me don't expect me to be welded to my phone.
So I have a Nokia 5 smartphone.
 
2 old ducks that we know, bought 2 of those old biddies doro's, and chatting one night, I found out that in their "package" they had 2GB of data.......They wondered how it worked,;) I told them to throw them in the bin, and I'd go with them to get androids and show them how it works.
 
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