"Adrian Brentnall" wrote in message
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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...

Because the apps dont reside on that

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),

Because you havent moved the ones already there to the SD card.

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

Yes, but that because the amount of memory
and quality of the cameras does too.

- up to what I'd call 'silly money'.

For someone who wants to use their phone like you do, sure.

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.

Not with the amount of memory they dont at those prices.

Any other suggestions gratefully received. I don't need a 'selfie' camera
(shudder!),

They all do, tho it can be pretty poor with the worst of them.

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!

No androids do as far as letting you have the apps there, for a reason.