On 10/06/2018 07:06, alan_m wrote:
On 09/06/2018 21:48, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
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...

On some (all?) phones the apps download to internal memory and then you
have to manually tell the phone to move app in turn to the memory card.
Some of the apps (perhaps the manufactured installed apps) may be locked
to the phone's internal memory.

Thanks. That seems to be the problem with this particular phone (based
on my experience and some Googling). Many apps have a button for 'move
to sd-card', but it's greyed out.

Aha! - rummaging around in the 'storage' section discovered a bunch of
enormous log-files - which (after checking onlineg) I deleted.
There's now a lot more memory available.....
...and I've been able to download a couple of VNC Viewer programs - which
is a start.

Can't get them to talk to the RPi yet ("Server did not offer supported
security type")- but that'll be a setting somewhere - so a small step
forwards!


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),

Again, the destination for phone's photos has to be configured for sd
card. The phone will default to saving them on the internal memory.


I'll have to look into that... at least there's now some 'elbow-room' on
this phone. The touch-keyboard is still dreadful though - makes life
interesting if you're trying to enter passwords and you may or may not
be selecting the adjacent key - even using one of those
'rubbery-pointer' things..

Think I still need a better phone!

Thanks
Adrian