cheap mobile phones

[rhysieg]

anybody got any recommendations for a cheap phone with long battery life?

i bought a nokia from phones 4 u for £7 before glastonbury '10 that was perfect, it lasted the whole festival and did its job. i took it to loads of festivals until i lost it in a drunken haze somewhere. (someone found it and phoned me and offered to send it back but in a moment of sheer stupidity i thanked them but told them not to even bother as it was so inexpensive, i regret saying that as it was a perfect festy phone)

Edited June 8, 2013 by rhysieg

[monkey1989]

Check out what the bigger tesco stores have got always have a selection of cheapos, talking the tesco extra stores

[ste]

I bought a Nokia 100 from amazon - £18

I charged it up a few weeks ago now and the battery still looks to be on about 95% from its first charge... however i haven't used it properly - but as battery life goes I'm impressed.

Apparently 8hrs ish talk time and 35days standby... that will do me, but did buy a spare battery just incase.

Edited June 9, 2013 by ste

[glasto-worker]

I have used a Nokia 100 RH-130CV unlocked phone and the claimed battery life is true enough and provided you are not calling every five minuets one charge will get you though Glastonbury with power to spare .

although a very basic phone I did find some useful features - due to cancer treatment I have lots of appointments spread out over three separate hospitals so a ' reminder function ' was a big asset as I could set it to ring at a certain time/date showing which hospital as I was due to attend and the time/date so its not just a alarm clock,

this was dead easy to set up - The back removal can be tricky at first ' but don't force it ' - here is how I do it -

hold the phone with the front facing you ' on its side ' holding the top and bottom ' lightly ' with your fingers - so my left fingers are close to the top of the screen and my right fingers are close to the bottom of the keypad - I then push with my right thumb towards my left hand and it slides open.I would recommend that you do this a few times as this will make it easier in the future - in fact I can open it just with one hand.

I would have preferred a more detailed instruction book as it is very basic but the information is out there

over time I did find in a noisy area that the speaker volume was lower than I would like but at that price { under £19 unlocked from Amazon } I cant complain.

My brother wanted to give me a gift so he ended up buying me a Doro 615 unlocked which is £100 more expensive than the Nokia 100 which suits me better as it has a far louder speaker volume although the battery life is still to be tested at a festival but as I have access to power in the crew area its not such a problem.

if you can live with a basic phone with no camera then really you cant go wrong with the unlocked Nokia 100.

[chris_top_her]

Can u get adaptors to fit in a micro sd card ?

[ste]

yep no problem. day to day I use a nano sim, I bought a pack of converters for about £2 also from amazon and works fine. micro sim converters also.

[titusbungle]

EE stores are doing a free Samsung E1230 if you top up by £20. Perfect glasto phone - cut yourself off from the world and only give the number to the people that need it!

[Bathimp]

Good advice this thread. Thanks everybody.

Need my son to ditch his smartphone and use something longer lasting. The sim card converters will be very useful

[Keef]

I've just bought a Nokia 100 too. Not used it properly yet but according to the reviews on Amazon (and on here) it should do the trick. I also got a micro sim adapter for the grand price of £1.24 so no need to buy a PAYG sim and tell everyone I'm going with a different number. It also means I can take and use my smart phone for when I have to make a video skype call to my friends who are attending a wedding instead of coming to Glasto - they're really really really pleased about this and are really really really looking forward to seeing my grubby gurning face calling them from the best festival in the world while they watch the drunken uncle trying to dance to Billy Ocean.

[Phil-itfc]

I bought a refurbished Nokia for £8 from here: http://www.purplegossip.com/

[Erk]

Nokia 100. 35 days standby. Makes and receives calls. Cheap as chips.

[rachbon]

I have a cheap PAYG Samsung phone, not sure which one it is but it was about £10 from Phones 4 U.

It always seems to have full battery, probably because it can't do anything apart from phoning and texting.

[Justiceforcedave]

I used to have a cheap Sony Ericso had a long battery life but also had the Internet on it (or a very basic version of). Any ideas something similar? It's purely so I can use a bit of twitter to try and stay a float on any special events or secret sets etc.

[Keef]

I used to have a cheap Sony Ericso had a long battery life but also had the Internet on it (or a very basic version of). Any ideas something similar? It's purely so I can use a bit of twitter to try and stay a float on any special events or secret sets etc.

[wilson123]

I take a cheap Nokia but in all honesty it has only ever been useful back in 2009 when I text the wife to ask if Jackson was actually dead and not a festival wind up. Other than that, I text people and say 'meet you at the massive Glastonbury sign near Park' and then get a response six hours later

[Keva]

I have an old Nokia 6126 that im probably going to be taking. Long battery life makes it perfect.

[prue]

My excellent unlocked Nokia I bought in Morocco is fantastic.

It was unlocked from the start and the battery lasts for aeons, even if I use the torch on it!

[hulk mike]

got a nokia 100 from phones 4 u the other weekend, £7.50, should do nicely

[redmosquito]

I've just bought an old Nokia 3310 of eBay for a tenner and a couple if spare batteries. If some some crazy reason I get bored I can while away the hours playing snake.

[rhysieg]

cheers guys, good advice. ill be looking out for a nokia 100. seems widely approved. i didnt even consider a micro sim converter, great advice!!! thanks alot. im currently ordering both from amazon, just over £20

i would be heartbroken if i lost my galaxy s4, but im not stupid enough to take it anyway.

[matt2007]

I have a cheap PAYG Samsung phone, not sure which one it is but it was about £10 from Phones 4 U.

It always seems to have full battery, probably because it can't do anything apart from phoning and texting.

[Tomo18]

had a nokia 100 for a work phone, cheap cheerful and lasted between 2-3 week with quite abit of usage

now they have changed them with these fancy Motorola things and you get about half a day out of it

Edited June 9, 2013 by Tomo18