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Thread Author: maltrap Replies: 8
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New Fri 21 Jun 24 13:08 
 Mobile phones - maltrap
I’m thinking of getting a smart phone (again) Tesco mobile do a Motorola E13 for about £70, with a Lebara sim £159 pcm for 6 months via MSE.Would this be a good starter,smart phone.Any recommendations or otherwise.My existing dumb phone is a Doro PAYG.Q
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New Fri 21 Jun 24 14:47 
 Mobile phone - Stroudie
I got my wife a Moto E13 as I did not know if she would cope.
She did.
£69.99 from Argos.
She is on Asda (Vodafone) for £5/mth and 3GB data. Unlimited calls and SMS.
Plenty for her. You can change the plan each month if you want more data or buy add-ons.
It is a month by month contract.
Works OK for her, with big battery, and 64GB memory.
Only has slow charging, but we plug it in O/N.
Hasn't burned the house down yet.
We are happy with it.
I have a Moto G8 Power on Smarty.
I pay £6/mth for 6GB.
Again there is no contract, you pay monthly in advance and can switch auto renew on or off, and change how much data you want.

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New Fri 21 Jun 24 15:06 
 Mobile phone - Bromptonaut
Becuase Plusnet have stopped doing a mobile service I moved over to a really cheap deal with Lyca. No contract and around £7/month for unlimited calls/texts and a ton of data. Kept the number I was issued when I got my forst phone from Orange in 1996.

Only problem after two months is that calls outwith the bundled range of numbers need cash credit on the account.

I was in London last Friday staying in a Travelodge and needed to check something. Their calls are on a service costing (say) 13p/minute. I had to log into my account and add credit to do that. Having been on a contract for 28 years that was a bit of a surprise.
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New Fri 21 Jun 24 14:48 
 Mobile phones - Bromptonaut
If you don't want all singing all dancing gaming etc, just a phone for calls and texts/data with a camera then the Moto E should be fine.

Mrs B and I, and our son after the clot left his almost new Pixel in a taxi, all have variations on the Moto G and they're fine.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Fri 21 Jun 24 at 14:49
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New Tue 8 Oct 24 08:36 
 Mobile phones - Again - Bromptonaut
We both have Moto G phones, slightly different models but similar specs. Neither has 5G and Mrs B's has a damaged screen and can be 'temperamental' when making/taking calls. Family members report poor audio to although I'm less aware of that.

Replacement time we think.

We need a 5g phone that does obvious phone stuff (calls/texts), basic web browsing - here, newspapers etc, Bluetooth, hotspot and takes OK photographs, stream music from Spotify/Amazon.

No gaming or video streaming.

Various retailers have the Moto G34 at a little over £100.

www.motorola.co.uk/smartphones-moto-g-34-5g/p?skuId=763

Looks OK to me.

Any reason to avoid?
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New Tue 8 Oct 24 10:22 
 Mobile phones - Again - Zero
Its slow to charge, below average display, but at that price its good enough.
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New Tue 8 Oct 24 11:05 
 Mobile phones - Again - Bromptonaut
I saw slow to charge but for those of us who had Moto20/30 years ago an hour to full is ok.

Also it's on my desk while I work as a need it for 2 factor authentication so it can such up electrons to its heart's content during the day.
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New Tue 8 Oct 24 15:11 
 Mobile phones - Again - zippy
Slight thread hijack - Two Factor Authentication (2FA)...

Work have slapped 2FA on every app that we use - and because most of them are from different suppliers, they don't detect (or don't correctly detect) a log on to their app from a laptop connected through works VPN, which they should do - so I am told.

The upshot of this is that throughout the day, I can get dozens of 2FA texts to my phone. The record was 57 in 1 day a couple of weeks back as I had to use a number of apps that kept logging me off after a few minutes of inactivity. Grrrr :-D
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New Tue 8 Oct 24 15:59 
 Mobile phones - Again - Bromptonaut
All our apps are through Okta which is pretty good but if I've just logged into case recording it still needs me to authenticate again for softphone and again for Workplace where we can seek help form colleagues and get a quick verification from expert advice at CA HQ.
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