If anyone wants a cheap mobile (XMAS present potential?)

[bazking69]

http://direct.asda.com/Samsung-E1120---Orange-Pay-...

Yes it might involve a trip to Asda which I get the impression is a crime for some people, but it's a brand new small Samsung phone with a colour screen for £10. The £5 credit if you want it is a bonus.

I bought 2 last night, one for my dad as the mobile we bought him for years ago, being a Nokia, has finally given in to Nokia conformity and started turning itself off randomly. He can just chuck his old SIM in it. The second one is for my mum to chuck in the glovebox of her car for emergency. £11.50 if you include the cost of a car charger.

Ideal emergency/spare/second/kids phone? I'm off to get another 2 tonight for my boss!

AND...if you get in quick, you can turn them around for a small profit on ebay, and return the ones you can't sell!

[skenergysolution]

Very good phone for the price! Only thing is that the font is quite small, the older generation might find it hard to read.

[bazking69]

The OS looks very simple and clear to me and even my technophobe dad should be able to get his head around it, and it's taken him years to get to grips with a Nokia 3210!!

Edited by bazking69 on Thursday 12th November 17:04

[OnTheOverrun]

You can mail order it from them for £4.95 extra which is a small price to pay to avoid going to a Chavda.

[Sparks]

Same phone is available from T-Mobile, (if you are a customer) for £10. If you aren't a customer, it is £10 but you need to purchase £10 of credit.

Just bought one, as a replacement, for a 'trodden on' phone.

Sparks

Edited by Sparks on Thursday 12th November 21:13

[R60EST]

Are the Asda ones unlocked to any network ?

[cyberface]

Re: 'emergency' phones.... isn't there a limit on how long you can hold onto credit on a PAYG SIM without using the phone before it cancels itself?

I'm pretty sure my old PAYG SIM sitting in my mk1 iPhone only works because I fire it up (send a text) every other month or so. And the fact that I've got a habit of doing this means there must have been a reason for it in the first place.

It'd be an absolute bummer if your car broke down, in a thunderstorm, with vampires and zombies shambling around outside moaning for fresh meat, you were a girl alone in the car with no anti-vampire weaponry or special skillz... and your 'emergency' mobile phone conked out because the SIM hadn't been used in 3 months, nein?

[TwistingMyMelon]

just got that phone on o2 for £20

Tis nice and simple pretty bullet proof dropped in water once already, fallen out my pocket at 45 mph on my bike plus ive thrown it accross the office in rages a few times and it stil works!!! C'ant go wrong battery lasts about 6 days and that on 24-7 with a fair whack of calls.

[Engineer1]

I was told when buying that pjone from T-mobile it's a billable item every 3 months to keep the sim active, or atleast it is now days.

[va1o]

OnTheOverrun said:

You can mail order it from them for £4.95 extra which is a small price to pay to avoid going to a Chavda.

Agreed

[ThunderSpook]

Don't forget you can also get your Orange Wednesday vouchers with this aswell. We've got a PAYG orange phone purely for this reason.