Ok for a kids phone/contract but forget the insurance
£52 a year is a hefty wedge for such a cheap phone.

Not bad with a phone included and some half-decent headphones. Tariff little bit stingy (I guess what did I expect for £8.50) - it's 250 mins, 5000 text and 500MB.

Asda Mobiles a good deal for kids on the recurring £5 / 7 bundle. No contract :smile:

mobile.asda.com/bun…les

And you'll end up paying £11 pm. Tesco have this system whereby you set an emergency excess, a minimum of £2.50pm. Seems like a neat idea, however my daughter says she doesn't know when she's dipped into using that and will just use her data until its all gone. Annoyingly, Tesco don't allow a £0 limit so that the £8.50 stays fixed. Crafty!

On Android you can easily set a data limit aligned to your monthly billing cycle so she shouldn't be going over - you an also set a warning level.

Also download the tesco mobile app, and and it will tell you roughly how much of your allowance you have left.

And consider using Tesco xtras to reduce your bill by £3 every month (and they give you some extra data as well)

Got my Mother in law the Moto E3 same tariff for £7.50 p/m
You know what? they're pretty good phones nowadays.

I do like Motorola buy imo PAYG works better for kids.

Yeah it's a good deal....

Basically £4 for phone and other half for mins texts and data

It's not the best phone and the screen is the worst resolution Moto have had BUT its a fair deal

Basically the phone will cost you £100 over 24 months at £4.25 monthly

£4.25 for the mins data etc is pretty much cheapest you can get monthly

Consider Plusnet £5 monthly and buying a Moto E3 handset for £80 without a contract

The E3 is better than Moto C.... Nicer screen although battery life will be better on Moto C as Android 7 doze is good in standby and screen is less intense

Also consider the Moto E4 on Tesco at £11 a month. Much nicer phone

decent with the headphones which are made by binatone

Has anybody got any suggestions for a cheap phone for my 10-year-old. It would need enough memory to download a few games to play, ie, Pokemon? Don't really want to be spending out too much on a contract.

Over the 2yrs the cost for plusnet+ phone is roughly the same as Tesco deal isn't it?

Yes but you're not signing up for 24 months

Depending when you buy the Plusnet sim you can get 1.5gb for £5 monthly but not at the moment. Lots of deals pop up with Plusnet. I have Plusnet sim and it's very fast 4g data with EE

Not sure who Tesco use.. think it's O2 so different network and signal reception

Tesco = O2

Strange - I have a cheap Huawei and that has a change cycle option in the data usage cycle dropdown, so the not being able to set exact dates isn't a universal thing across Huawei phones.

You might find the Tesco Mobile app gives you a small but welcome monthly discount, worth checking out.

Xtras app gives 200Mb, but it can use more than that some months downloading ads. I've blocked it from using mobile background data do now it only downloads the adverts at home over wi-fi. Don't forget family perks if more than one phone on the same contact.