[jay.scot]
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--[ New dumb phone at last, it cost £11.50 but came with £10 credit.
I have been on the search for a true dumbphone for a long time now [0], the
best I could achieve, without spending a small fortune, was running
a Nokia 2.3 smartphone with a minimal launcher which I paid £60 for.
Normally I try my best to get stick to older and low-tech hardware, with
3G being turned off already by Vodaphone, Three and then EE by 2024, its
just making that harder. On this occasion I splashed out and spent
£11.50, technically though it was £1.50 since it came with £10 worth of
credit, yup half the price of a overpriced coffee. On the retailers
product page it says that £10 will be added to your basket to cover the
price of the credit but it doesn't so the total should £11.50 instead of
£21.50! Lets be honest though, that's still quite cheap.
Before I tell you where, the phone in question is a Nokia 105 4G.
Features are limited to a music player, the radio and snake - that all
really. This is what it looks like too:
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Total belter right? Unfortunately the best place to check it out is over
on good old http [1] protocol. It's good so far, it has dual sim so
I was able to put in my existing simcard as well as the freebie that was
included. It also has a slot for an microSD upto 32GB which I have used
to load up on music.
So where can you grab this bad boy from? Argos UK [2] go fill your boots
while it lasts!
[0]:
gopher://jay.scot/0/phlog/009.txt
[1]:
https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-105-4g
[2]:
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3100660
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