​hi.. for our 80+ mum we mounted a smartphone on the wall above the TV installed an APP (hands-free answer) the phone auto answers but only numbers stored in the directory and she can see a picture of the family member calling. it answers in hands-free mode so we can talk to her anywhere in her flat works brilliantly and she doesn't have to touch the phone.

I struggle to get my Grandparents to use a smartphone to call. You have to bring up the dialler and there are too many other 'buttons' to make mistakes with.

Trying to get them to use Whatsapp would not be a pleasant experience.

But I'll buy one for the kids for Christmas and video their faces when they realise its not an iPhone.

I bought this to use as an mp3 player but the sound volume is woeful... Damn you Europe!

Anyhow a little internet detective work threw this little trick to increase the volume.
Type *#*#3646633#*#* on phone keypad
Go to hardware
Go to audio (to increase ring volume) or
Go to headphones (to increase playback volume though the headphones)
Set to 160
Press set

It enters the engineer mode to allow you to tinker with all sorts of settings.

Hope it helps someone.

Surely she still has her uses??

£20 now ?

Is anyone else having problems with the screen calibration on this phone. When I press SHIFT I get letter 'd', when I press 'r' I get 'j' etc. Did a quick search online and so far cannot find a way to calibrate the screen....

Has anyone else had problems with an SD card? Tried 2 cards - 32gb and 8gb - both were working in other devices (hudl and moto E). The Smart First isn't even recognising that a card has been inserted.......

OP....you missed out 'kids'

OP....you missed out 'kids'

I bought this to use as an mp3 player but the sound volume is woeful... Damn you Europe!

Anyhow a little internet detective work threw this little trick to increase the volume.
Type *#*#3646633#*#* on phone keypad
Go to hardware
Go to audio (to increase ring volume) or
Go to headphones (to increase playback volume though the headphones)
Set to 160
Press set

It enters the engineer mode to allow you to tinker with all sorts of settings.

Hope it helps someone.

Hot for the price.
But for the specs ????
3G, Internal memory 4 GB, 512 MB RAM, 4" display.

Who do you think will ever need them ??

For your small daughters / boys ?? Well, once they fnd out that his/her phone could not play most of the game like their friends in the school have in their phones with this low spec processor, 512 MB RAM, they will be asing you to fix it (more hassles for you considering your time). Alternatively, they might deliberately throw it into the bin and claim they lost it in order to get it replaced.

For your Grandma, Grandpa with the way the people describe above? Well they are using it like a non smart phone. Is not that cheaper and usefull to buy a used non smart phone for them with large keypad.

Yep- Price matched Tesco now!

Yup!

No you don't.

Surprised amazon haven't matched this.

just stick a miui launcher it work just fine

Anyone stuck Cyanogenmod on this or anything similar. Maybe a performance boost with the bloatware removed?

I started using it (for a couple of hours) and it seems okay for basic use. Not expecting it top notch capabilities

Oh I understand now it was Primenow credit for new customers. I am not in primnow area so wont get that, makes sense

Oh I understand now it was Primenow credit for new customers. I am not in primnow area so wont get that, makes sense

Thanks

Can some one please tell me if the vodaphone sim coming with this phone have some credit or no credits in it at all? someone here says it had 10 GBP credit in it

Ill be honest, I have absolutely no idea what you're on about...

Really ? Never had a sticker at school saying WELL DONE ? tut tut tut.......

I absolutley get where youre coming from, however nobody expects an emergency so therefore if its been in your partners glow compartment (i suspect its a typo for glove, unless of course your wife is Benedorms sweetheart Sticky Vicky) for say 9 months without hiccup, that moment she needs it its gonna be more dead than the West's children... and by that i mean Fred & Rose, not Kanye and Kim.

Good one as a backup phone, does the job

All very good points.
As you say, there are lots of uses for a very cheap smartphone

People like me , who are using it for spotify relay or dedicated ear dropping device or auto skype answer camera device, on the boat when I go fishing sealed in bag with £10 quid credit if my marine radio fails !! inside the motorbike saddle just incase i leave my main phone at home ! In the glow compartment for my partner just incase her mobile phone packs up.

As this is a basic SMART phone with millions of other USES,
Not perfect but it will JUST DO for those moments where it might make a huge difference in your life.

So Go away with your daft useless comments and buy yourself a lollipop and lick it !

Thanks. I hadn't seen the Huawei. These are good prices, my only issue is the growing screen size as I'm looking for smallest possible dimensions especially in these cases where the resolution isn't that impressive to begin with on the cheaper smaller versions and the same/similar resolution is kept in the 'better' model with larger screen reducing ppi. But it looks like I may have to go for a 4.5" to o get 1GB/8GB.

I don't follow the seasonal trends. Whatever they are. But I'm a numpty.

Not really related to this deal but I'm looking for a cheap smartphone ideally with a bit more RAM than this but want one that offers decent sound quality over bluetooth. I'm using my moto defy+ at the moment (offers excellent sound quality over bluetooth) for runkeeper + music whilst exercising but the phone has an inherent kernel issue meaning that it will randomly reboot, sometimes not for a few days, sometimes more than once a day and I don't want it rebooting whilst tracking my walks/runs.

Anyone have any suggestions please?

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-as-you-go/mobile-phones - vodafone smart spped 6 is £40 and ticks the boxes. android 5.1

also - http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/pay-as-you-go/huawei-y5-payg/details - £35 plus 10 top up

£18 at Tesco direct

Yeah it tracked straight away at £42 - still got to wait for it to be confirmed obviously but they have recognised the transaction at least

Ordered this to go with the BT Sim only £5 for 12 month deal where you receive a £40 Amazon voucher and £42 TCB so all being well I should have a functioning albeit basic smartphone with minutes, texts and a bit of data per month for my 9 year old son and make a massive £4 profit - winner

bought one using primenow, just for the sake of it and to use as a back up plus its only £18 and you get £10 credit with it. Ordered 11.30am arrived 12.15pm, what a service with free chocs for the oh tommorow. Havent told her I got them free though, just need some free flowers now.

Got 10 pounds promotional credit and prime member got it for 8.00 cheap as chips

No but come a fortnight from now they will be half this price if us numpties didn't go charging in.Does nobody on this site follow the seasonal trends ie when the new models are coming and the big companies can't wait to dump their old stock.Come on guys play them at their own game and get some really good deals.

nice, ordered didn't need though (typical of HUKD)

7 pound cheaper whoopdedee.

I have looked for "HANDS-FREE-ANSWER" but cant find it on the Google Play Store anywhere. Any ideas?

Has anyone unlocked one of these? Any links if on eBay would be welcomed. Thanks.

You have to remove ALL icons except Whatsapp and Phone.

Good luck to you !! and you are welcome !!

That's 60 quid.

Wonder how this compares to a Nexus 4. Possible replacement for other half :smiley:

Here you GO

http://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_141992.html?wid=3



EU warehouse

4.5 inch IPS capacitive screen, 960 x 540(QHD) pixels resolution
● Dual SIM dual standby, one Standard SIM Card,one Micro SIM Card
● CPU: MTK6592M Octa Core, 1.4GHz
● GPU: Mali-450MP
● OS: Android 4.4, 1GB RAM 8GB ROM
● Dual Cameras: 2.0M front camera, 8.0MP back camera
● Support Gravity/Bluetooth/Wifi/GPS/OTG/FM/MP3/MP4

Networks:
2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 850/2100MHz

Nope

Yes, silly typo, I was going to type 512 RAM after low responsiveness but got distracted. Anyway, so what is similar bargain one level up say 40-50 ideally with 1GB RAM and 8GB memory? All start getting bigger and bigger screens which I don't actually want, 4" is better for a backup phone.

​cheers
does it open Spotify quick? my lumia 435 is so slow

Stop voting please. It's not that great :-)

Is there anything faster or with more RAM for under 30? This looks good as a second phone but review videos show the low responsiveness and 4GB RAM after OS is very low.

Common problem is USB port becomes blocked or non-responsive to charging cable....

:laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Surely she still has her uses??

how is this for spotify/ texting/ checking of emails/ hukd only?

with tenner credit ??

Postage?

4gb Android phones should be illegal! (unless that's the ram size). Getting rid of my daughters moto e 4gb because once you have Minecraft and WhatsApp installed, the phone is full. Apps stop working etc, its terrible.

Haha, yep, precisely my point. Too simple / too complicated. You lose whichever way. I stick to buying them call and text phones now. Less to go wrong, less to explain, less to remember.

I got one for my 87 year old dad. I had it set up with the free Nova launcher because it lets me increase the font size and added direct dial widgets for each contact so all he had to do was scroll through the front screens and tap whatever contact he wanted to cal once and that was it. However he just ended up calling a dozen people every day without realising it so i've had to scrap that method. It seems things can be TOO easy sometimes. Now i've installed Contacts & Dialer by Drupe which is a fairly typical contact list but lets me embiggen the text more than the others i've found and you simply double tap the name to make the call. The phone itself is set to hang up by the power button. We shall see...

Got one as a spare in case I lose / break my phone, had a play before it went in the drawer, seems fine for £20, yep not as responsive as a more expensive phone but does the job..........

My girlfriend and my self bought one each to use as mp3 players on the beach in Spain as we didn't want to take iPhones in case they got nicked when we were in the sea, we put 3 sim cards in them with the "feel at home" tariff and set The iPhones to forward calls to them......£20 for an mp3 player and a "disposable phone" no worries !

Not what i meant... Im getting the £18 price, no reference to a £22 price!

At this price it would be rude not to really.

or use it to unlock the phone

I've got one and it's actually surprisingly usable. Not some high end Android but it's so cheap.

£22 for a workable Android touch screen smart phone.
It's quite amazing that this technology is available for such a low price.

Got £2 refund as a gift certificate because i recently purchased.

this is a lot better than crappy Samsung ace or young or whatever they call them. faster and smoother with no bloatware.

its cheap for a reason, its just slow & laggy if you want to use it properly

I have one and use it as a sporify player in the car with mifi . it is pretty brilliant

Im not seeing 2 different prices and i dont have prime!

Great as a fitness tracker for runs and music. Got this when it was £28 about 8 months ago.

bought this for 19 the other day , wonder if it is worth asking amazon for my 1 quid back :sunglasses:

Ive got a Sansa clip with Rockbox on it... Its great (and tiny) but can be a bit fiddly.

Whats the battery life like on these?
Considering this or something similar as an mp3 player without any phone functionality. If tye battery is crap then i won't bother.

​hi.. for our 80+ mum we mounted a smartphone on the wall above the TV installed an APP (hands-free answer) the phone auto answers but only numbers stored in the directory and she can see a picture of the family member calling. it answers in hands-free mode so we can talk to her anywhere in her flat works brilliantly and she doesn't have to touch the phone.

Its okay until you put a google account on it then it lags allover the place.

I purchased this one,and its really a very good spare phone, fast and clean with good screen size. Cheapest android in market.

I struggle to get my Grandparents to use a smartphone to call. You have to bring up the dialler and there are too many other 'buttons' to make mistakes with.

Trying to get them to use Whatsapp would not be a pleasant experience.

But I'll buy one for the kids for Christmas and video their faces when they realise its not an iPhone.

WhatsApp is free now

Unlock for 99p on the auction site