Mutter
I need a new phone. My current one, apparently, makes me sound like I’ve fallen down a well and am requesting the urgent assistance of Lassie.
So I popped onto the Nokia site (I like Nokias).
They do not appear to do any phones that just let you make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages.
Apparently I also have to have something that will take photos, play music and do all sorts of other things which I neither understand nor need.
They’re all too complicated and bright and shiny (and pink) and Carphone Warehouse don’t sell reconditioned phones any more. Woe is me. Woe, I tell you. Woe.
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Heavens. You’re right. This doesn’t bode well for when my faithful Nokia expires. Did you notice the absence of a ‘list by least expensive’ search feature?
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
My faithful old Nokia expired recently. I now have a rather complicated PDA affair, but it was a freebie from my friend who didn’t want it, so although it has a million features I don’t want, at least I didn’t pay for it.
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I am sure Lassie would be delighted to rescue you.
July 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I bought cheap as chips 02 pay as you go nokia last summer… it does take photos and have a radio, but mostly it phones and texts and doesn’t confuse me with other ridiculousness… might be worth looking for pay as you go phones (which are often unlocked)
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I think I use the extra features on my phone about once every six months. I’ve used the camera on occasion, but compared to my normal camera the features are limited.
What is surprisingly useful is the file viewer. If I have a list of things I am looking out for (like a bookcase with certain dimensions), I create a word file with just that info, up the font size to VERY LARGE and upload it to my phone. The large font size means I only need limited zooming.
This is also useful for addresses.
But what I really don’t want is a satnav which plays MP3 files and does stuff with my phone, but has a naff interface for imputting addresses: sometimes it insists on voice input and I haven’t worked out why.
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 am
Once upon a time life was simple and things just did what it said on the box. A cassette player played cassettes. A telephone transmitted sound over distance. Now even the fridge sings and dances and heaven forbid that I would want to make toast without listening to music and taking photographs with the toaster. Multi-tasking is all well and good, but that’s a job for women, not inanimate objects (unless someone invents a vacuum cleaner which will do the ironing and make the tea as well, without me having to interfere in the process at all).
Stay down your well. It’s safe down there, and we’ll lower you food parcels in a bucket.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:00 pm
If you can tolerate Sony Ericsson’s , they still do a basic phone : J110i. Not too sure if there are any providers that still do them, but you may be able to get an unlocked one.
Nokia 1200’s can still be got via Virgin mobile pay-and-go…
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Easily sorted, love. Get a wizzair or easyjet flight to Warsaw for a weekend, you can crash on my floor (or one of the flatmates’ beds, if one of them is away) and head up to the Stadio bazaar. Lots of most helpful young men selling remarkably cheap used telephones.
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I have one of these as my work phone. It’s about as simple as they come these days, but I quite like it. http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-6301