Found one at last, received yesterday, a replacement at last for simple and durable Nokia 3310...had a few what i thought were fairly simple phones since the Nok, but invariably they were fiddy and disappointed.
So i now have a Samsung C3350 X Cover, it won't be of any interest to the tech wizards here but i'm happy at last to have phone that i don't need to look at the intruction book to operate in any way, at work where it can get a battering...i only make and receive calls on the phone, use the camera once in a blue moon and text maybe once a month.
Waterproof and dustproof which is handy in the enviornment i now work in.
one of these www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/samsung/gtc3350/
As a bonus cos i've gorn for a cheapy phone Orange knocked another £8 off my monthly contract bill whilst leaving me with roughly 2000 anytime any network minutes, as always calling Orange direct paid off, not only were they as always helpful and friendly they seem to continue to look after their long term customers...if only Orange did car insurance and took that stance eh?
Incidentally, as my contract was coming up for renewal i received several calls from sales bods whos carefully worded intros gave the impression they were from Orange where upon questioning about my free over the year extra minutes allocations (they hadn't a clue) soon admitted they were in fact just phone sellers...i dont like this type of thing and will continue to deal directly with Orange who so far have always come up trumps, if the others were straight from the off i might listen to what they have to say, as they try to mislead IMO they have no chance now or ever.
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...if only Orange did car insurance and took that stance eh?
Never. Not from the numbe rof complaints we receive about them here..
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>> ...if only Orange did car insurance and took that stance eh?
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>> Never. Not from the numbe rof complaints we receive about them here..
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Plus my complaint when I had to resort to emailing the CEO to get my local area ( mast?) problem sorted.
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Nokia 3310, eh? Seems a bit new-fangled to me... I'm still using a Nokia 1650, had it for years, does calls and texts, costs me next to nothing to run on Asda pay-as-you-go. (At a guess, around a couple of quid a month, if that.) Who wants anything else? :-)
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Yeah, but iphones is well sick, innit?
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I'm with you GB. Recently upgraded my trusty Doro Geriatrifone to a similar one with a camera. Only to stop me having to carry a separate camera, which I do need for work regularly.
Simple Vodafone PAYGO tariff and top up by phone anytime and place....seemples.
Ted
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>>Found one at last, received yesterday, a replacement at last for simple and durable Nokia 3310...had a few what i thought were fairly simple phones since the Nok, but invariably they were fiddy and disappointed.
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OOOh! You have gone all modern.
So has SWMBO. I recently bought her a new 3310 in bright blue so it is easier to find than the old grey one.
Then I had to swop bits from the old one as the illuminated buttons were too high tec.
All is now "quiet" on the home front.
We have zero cost monthly contracts so just pay the monthly useage bill.
None of this faffing about with PAYG.
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Have you given it a coat of underseal yet GB?
:-)
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Or greased the brake pipes like the much missed oilrag?
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>> Have you given it a coat of underseal yet GB?
Already done at the factory fully sealed, though i haven't chucked it in the bath yet.;)
Hilux of the phone world.
Ha...he needs no encouragement from you either AC, haven't you got some mincing about in everybody's way to be getting on with..:-)
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Missed the edit...hmm seems theres quite a few of us that have moved away from the ever more amazing smart phones, wonder if the same ones avoid the more complex of the cars now sold?
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>> Missed the edit...hmm seems theres quite a few of us that have moved away from
>> the ever more amazing smart phones, wonder if the same ones avoid the more complex
>> of the cars now sold?
No. Everything else I have is izzy wizzy bleeding edge bllkenlighten gefingerpoken.
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>> No. Everything else I have is izzy wizzy bleeding edge bllkenlighten gefingerpoken.
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Outed the Lancer? or do you mean 'orse and cart tech car and everything else electronic..
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or do you mean 'orse and cart tech car and everything else
>> electronic..
correct.
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>> correct.
Welcome to Luddite car land Brother Z, once bitten by the bug there's no going back...it manifests itself at first in a seemingly irrational but eminently sensible urge to get underneath with Dinitrol, instinct it is, those who like steam could be susceptable, don't fight it brother embrace it..:-)
edit..Dogs Motorola sounds OK ish, SWMBO had one once and i found the thing ridiculously complicated with minute numbers and tiny keys, no use whatsoever to me unless i have me glasses on.
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>> i found the thing ridiculously complicated with minute numbers and tiny keys<<
I find it okay to use (which is once or twice a year in my case) :-))
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>> I find it okay to use (which is once or twice a year in my
>> case) :-))
Just remembered got a donkeys old Motorola in the car, wired in from new in '96, it works well enough but again too complicated and almost impossible to see the screen or keys in its cradle....handy in the car though, its on Orange but the original Virgin contract so costs nothing except for the relatively cheap calls.
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>> haven't you got some mincing about in everybody's way to be getting on with..:-)
I try to do a bit of that every day gb. But my jalopy has annoyingly parted its catalyser from its long tailpipe which is now hanging down pointing forward touching the ground. I've got it jacked up but someone has thrown my axle stands away. It's on dodgy wet ground covered in wet autumn leaves. Can't find the right logs or breeze blocks to prop it on and am scratching my head. Getting a bit old for this goddam carp.
The exhaust parted the moment I started the car yesterday morning. I had parked it at 1am after a swift drive from London without too many old Japanese cars mincing around in my way. If the exhaust had given way on the road it could have been a bit nasty actually.
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Wonder if some dodgy geezer in London was distracted in the process of cat burgling? Probably saw an approaching vision in beads and white shoes and scarpered.
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But my jalopy has
>> annoyingly parted its catalyser from its long tailpipe which is now hanging down pointing forward
>> touching the ground.
Could you limpmince it to a handy chap and get him to weld it back up, or is it too noisy or possible digging in, either way not what you want on a miserable day and not a breeze block in sight....don't suppose theres a convenient bung/bolt hole under the carpet, feed a wire coat hanger through and pull the blasted thing up , bit of stick through the wire to support it?
Nab a friendly passing transporter driver and get him to run it on for you, then whilst Lady Coussine stuffs a large bacon and egg buttie and mugs of tea down his neck you do the biz...wouldn't be the first time, used to collect lots of fleet stuff out of Angmering.
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Am butting in here only to say thank you for the joyous word "limpmince". Appropriated.
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>>. Appropriated.
My pleasure, you'll end up getting funny looks though, i've been getting them for years.
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>> Could you limpmince it to a handy chap and get him to weld it back up
It doesn't need welding gb. Worked loose as a secondary result of knackered or split engine stabilizer rubbers I'm pretty sure... when I get it driveable, tomorrow I hope, the handy chap will be asked to deal with that one. God knows what the parts will cost and how long it will take to get them.
I've got the clamp and gunge, just lacking axle stands/breezeblocks/just-right-size non-rotten oak logs as it were. Damn damn damn.
There are no exhaust hangers between the engine and the rear silencer boxes. Penny-pinching design seems to me. I doubt if the tailpipe is strong enough to polevault the car (had it dug into the road at speed) but it would have destroyed itself and perhaps ripped the back bumper off or holed the fuel tank or something.
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>> used to collect lots of fleet stuff out of Angmering.
The Sussex 'ings'... Worthing, Fulking, Climping... I used to tell my children that Burping and Fa rting were hidden in the folds of the South Downs and rather difficult to find.
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No one can beat my Motorola F3 (Orange PAYG) I bought 6 years ago for £10
No camera (2 indoors) no internet (2 indoors) and texts ... do me a favour!
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>> www.broomdces.com/liquipel.php
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Didn't Barbarella have similar coating or was that another dodgy film i'm thinking of, nah it look silly.
I'm going to cuddle up to me new phone and utter those immortal words 'i love my brick' like Father Jack just before he launches it through the telly.
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I bought my Sony Ericson for £5, perhaps 5 years ago. Works fine, dead simple all I need is a phone that does SMS messages and vibrates (cos I is deaf).
On Virgin pay as you go, chosen as you can top it up on the web and don't need to be able to hear to do that.
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After years of Ludditism with a simples Nokia on an Orange Sim only contract i finally bit the bullet.
Rang Orange and they kindly gave me a new, for free, Lumia 800 (thanks John H) with 600 mins and lots of data for £15.50 a month. I hate to say it but its a great piece of easily understood kit for a simpleton like me who has only recently mastered leccy windows. And I think i get to keep the phone at the end of 24 months so when unlocked after 90 days it should be worth something.
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>> Rang Orange and they kindly gave me a new, for free, Lumia 800 (thanks John
>> H) with 600 mins and lots of data for £15.50 a month.
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Some tips if you have not already done so to get more from your Lumia:
Download maps to your "Nokia Drive" which is separate App to "Nokia Maps" - you can then use Nokia Drive maps anywhere there is a GPS satellite signal even if you remove your SIM (i.e. the maps work like a standalone satnav - you neither need a phone signal nor a wi-fi)
Install the "Whatsapp" App. It will allow you to use your phone like a Blackberry Messenger, to converse with others who have the App, without using your data or minutes allowance. It will automatically list your existing contacts who have the app on their phone. You can send even attach pics to your message and avoid the high charges normally applied to MMS comms.
Install "Counters", a Nokia App to keep track of your data and minutes used.
Install the "Camera Extras" and "City Lens" Apps from Nokia.
You can have a number of synced emails accounts within the Linked Inbox live Tile.
Gmail and Hotmail sync is live, i.e. true "push" email; but Yahoo can currently only poll every 15 mins (or greater figure of your choice).
You can keep up with Lumia developments on conversations.nokia.com/
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>> all I need is a phone that does SMS messages and vibrates
Wouldn't life be easier with a posh(ish) phone like a Blackberry with a qwerty keyboard for messaging, or can you hammer out lengthy messages like my barmy daughter and other younger more hip types do in seconds...takes me ages of muttering and cursing to get a message out on a normal text phone, by the time i've mastered the thing i've lost the will to live.
Hah that Legacylad's gorn and done it now, what the dickens is data when its at home?
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Why ever would you want a phone that vibrates?
Anne Summers does some very good lines of vibrating stuff.
Pat
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>>Anne Summers does some very good lines of vibrating stuff<<
True, but you can't compare a Rampant Rabbit to The Joy of Text.
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GB
Being a Luddite I think 'data' is summat to do with the amount of 'stuff' you can download from wherever onto your phone. I think watching moving stuff like movies equals lots of 'data'.But why watch a movie on your phone? I prefer half price Orange Wednesday at the cinema followed by a hot lamb & spinach.
It does come in useful this 'data' stuff.
Not that I understand it.
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>> Being a Luddite I think 'data' is summat to do with the amount of 'stuff'
>> you can download from wherever onto your phone.
From another member of the C4P Luddite splinter group i thank my comrade in arms.
If i had a need for such a phone i would have one, in practice neither SWMBO nor i can get on with touch screens, far too fiddly for us for swiping/scrolling, either i manage to highlight the wrong thing or send the scroll eons past where i want to be.
As i said in the OP, i only make/receive calls, a fair number of them, often on the move or when busy so want the minimum faff and simply to be able to feel without looking for the correct key or short sequence of keys required.
Let us know how you get on with the new smart phone.
CP's reference to the Age UK phones looks like a good idea for the aged or otherwise even more technophope, pity they managed to make the phone look like a childs toy though, is that a touch screen as it appears to be in the link, i'd have thought simple buttons that could be felt working would have been more user friendly.
Good idea though if it can be secured to the person like one of the emergency contact devices which are quite expensive, would enable simple easy contact to any one several people in the event of emergency.
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Because I'm deaf. Can't hear rings etc.
SMSing is the only reason I have a phone.
Edited cos the software in this forum is daft and placed the reply at the wrong point. Pat asked why would I want a phone that vibrated.
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>> SMSing is the only reason I have a phone.
Wouldn't a qwerty phone pad make life easier SP, or have you become lightning quick at normal texting with use?
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Lightning quick? More like dripping tap slow!
A querty keyboard would help a lot, but you won't get that for £5 on a PAYG tariff.
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>> A querty keyboard would help a lot, but you won't get that for £5 on
>> a PAYG tariff.
Thats understood, was thinking of an early Blackberry thingy bought used unlocked assuming the sim fits.
I don't know if thats feasable, others here will know though and may well have other better suggestions if you're interested at all.
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>> Edited cos the software in this forum is daft and placed the reply at the
>> wrong point.
No it hasn't. It has tagged it onto Pat's post, Temp change the view to threaded and you should see for yourself.
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?t=12514&v=t
Or alternately hover your mouse cursor over the arrow symbol at the start of the subject header of your post to see who you replied to.
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But some replies appear in the right place already...
edit, had a look at threaded view - it's horrid :o)
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>> But some replies appear in the right place already...
Define 'right place' :)
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>> had a look at threaded view - it's horrid :o)<<
^ I'm with this geezer.
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>> edit, had a look at threaded view - it's horrid :o)
I'm sure it has opinions about you too ;)
Regardless what it looks like though, I usd it to illustrate your post was in the correct place and linked to the person you replied to.
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Very good point SP, my reply was somewhat TIC though!
Pat
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New simple Orange mobile phone, oh joy. - R.P.
