On 09/06/2018 20:59, Max Demian wrote:
On 09/06/2018 20:02, Chris Green wrote:
JoeJoe wrote:
On 09/06/2018 17:12, Malcolm Race wrote:
I currently have a simple phone on EE (Samsung folding)

There are times when I would like to be able to text easily (currently
choose one letter from 3) and look on internet

I have talked to EE and suggestions are
Huawei P8lite

LGK8

Samsung J8 (2018)

I am currently using PAYG and intend to continue- the handset will be a
birthday present so contract is a no-brainer as I only top up by less
than £50 yearly

Does anyone have any experiance of these 3 handsets (I am aware that
the
earlier versions of the Smsung are short of memory

VMT

Malcolm

If you are simply after a phone that will take/make calls, send/receive
SMS, and has a "keyboard", then just buy the cheapest smartphone that
you can find. They will all do what you are after (and a lot more), for
a fraction of the prices that you were quoted by EE.

What quoted prices?

I would personally go for one of the earlier Moto G's - plenty of
refurbished ones on eBay.

As 'smartphones' go the Moto G is pretty good, the Moto E isn't that
bad either.

However (like the OP) I wish I could buy a phone which was good at
making phone calls, sending/receiving SMS and not much else but
there's no such thing now.

There's the Alcatel U5 3G for around £70 which works OK with some
limitations (camera no autofocus; limited built-in memory).

Interested to see this discussion - I'm looking to upgrade from a Huawei
Y330 - which seems to have a fairly unresponsive/inaccurate
touch-screen, and is refusing to allow me to download apps - even though
it's got a large, empty sd-card plugged in...

I don;t use the mobile that often, but it'd be handy to be able to take
half-decent photos (the Huawei complains that it's got no room to store
them), and I'd like to be able to run some apps like VNC Terminal, to
monitor the Raspberry Pi that looks after my glass kiln.

Prices on smartphones seem to vary widely - up to what I'd call 'silly
money'. Somebody on a web-based forum recommended the Archos range -
which includes a number of phones sub-100-euro - some of which seem to
have quite decent specs.

Any other suggestions gratefully received. I don't need a 'selfie'
camera (shudder!), or any other bells & whistles - just something that
has a decent touch-screen, one reasonable camera, and more than the 4gig
of internal memory that the Huawei has - or the willingness to actually
use the 32gb SD-card!

Thanks
Adrian