New phone for an oldie

A question about : New phone for an oldie

I've posted a longish thread over on the phones board but only had one reply so I wondered if any of you oldies could give me advice on the Samsung s3 mini phone and which PAYG taftff I ought to look at buying.

It's for hubby. He only uses it very occasionally, mostly to ring me. He never texts so it is mainly the cost of the phone to buy outright and the per minute cost of phone calls.

The market is very confusing and hubby is a bit of a dinosaur with using phone and Internet, although we do have an I pad and he can look up stuff and surf the net on that, so is happy with the touch screen technology.

Help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Best answers:

• See that you are getting more advice on your original thread, so better sticking with that one, to avoid confusion.
  https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...305&highlight=
• Yes, Grumbler has given me some good advice over there. I just thought that the over 50's thread might have advice from folks who don't necessarily do technical speak. I can't post links from other sites easily on my I pad and don't always understand the technical terminology. It's amazing how little patience some people have if you can't grasp what they are talking about, especially when they use abbreviations that you have never heard of.
  Grumbler has indeed helped me enormously but if any of you oldies want to add any advice I'm still interested in hearing it and will keep an eye on both threads for a while.
  I love you ve Martin Lewis's site, twirling round the different forum threads is better than reading a book or watching mindless twaddle on TV in the evenings
• What's the problem posting links from your iPad? I'm on one just now and don't have a difficulty. Perhaps I can help.
• Hi itsanne, thanks, well..... I can copy a piece of text and paste it to pages ok.
  If I am looking on Sainsburys website and see a phone that I want to ask you to look at I'm stuck at this point.
  Presumably I would have Martins website open at the top of my I pad, then I open Sainsburys website with the phone details, what do I do from here please???
  Thanks for being interested in helping. I'm no numpty but I do have to write things like this down in order to do the same thing again in a few weeks time as I will have forgotten what to do by then.lol.
  Thanks Beverley
• https://www.phoneshopbysainsburys.co....y-s3-blue.html
  Just trying out the cut and paste thingy!
• Yes that did work so I hope to be able to do that in future. Thanks for the lesson Zygurat.
  So ..... Looking at this phone from my link does it look like a sim free phone that I can use on orange for now but change to Sainsburys cheap call plan or anyone else's in the future?
  Thoughts much appreciated
• Home / Phones / Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini (Blue)
  Hells bells, I just realised that the first link I posted said sim free but was Ј150 so I've just posted the one I had my eye on and it's tthe mini at Ј75 but now I'm thinking that this one is actually tied to a Ј10 bundle.
  So the young man in Sainsburys was wrong if he thought it was sim free. At the great price of Ј79.
  I really don't want to be tied to one network for any length of time.
  I'm getting really frustrated now.
  Hubby has just gone out, I've tried twice to ring him from the house phone to his old mobile, message said he was unavailable. He rang me and asked if I did in fact ring him. So the old phone rings out but is not getting incoming calls. That makes a new phone all the more urgent now.
  Bummer!
• Tesco have a couple of sim free unlocked phones for under Ј100, both of which get decent reviews.
  https://www.tesco.com/direct/motorola...skuId=162-0286
  https://www.tesco.com/direct/microsof...skuId=375-4682
  Also you could buy the Samsung phone at Sainsbury, and pay to have it unlocked. I can't advise you on that, as don't live in UK.
• If he only uses it to make calls, I would suggest hubby would be better with a phone with a key pad to dial rather than touch screen.
  https://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-mo...skuId=156-6028
  https://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-mo...skuId=164-2461
• Less of the "oldies" please
  Over 50 is hardly old
• The doro is good and stays charged for ages.
• Old is however you feel on a particular day! Some days it's older than others, today's a good day for me so I have a spring in my step.
  I thought if I asked the question on this thread then people would be more likely to understand that my DH doesn't need all the things that some of the younger generation feel the need for. Basic features, easy to use, plain large screen, decent for photographs, not too expensive if he lost it or dropped it and able to change tariffs if we find one better value later on.
  I think at the moment the Motorola Moto E is coming out on top.
  One lady posted that she has one and is really pleased with it and the sites I've checked give it a really good rating all for around Ј80 plus a charger which is extra and then to buy a sim from Sainsburys or Three. There I've really done my research. Anyone want to add any advice before I actually go and buy it?
  Thanks
• I love the "Hello Moto" ring tome, got it on my iPhone :-)
• After much deliberation I have finally made my purchase. I've gone for a higher priced Moto G 4G. I read all the reviews and looked at the ones you good folks suggested and this was my decision in the end.
  I will need a charger and I'm going with Sainsburys sim 8p calls and 4p texts. I'll see how this goes and can then try other companies if I'm not happy with the reception on this one.
  Thanks again for all your help and suggestions.
• You might be better using the Three 3-2-1 sim esp as the Sainsbury sim is not 4G and you have a 4G phone (Three offer 4G without extra charge)
• Phones are usually (always?) provided with a charger.
• You can get a free SIM for Siansbury's via their online mobile shop
  https://www.phoneshopbysainsburys.co.uk/free-sim
  But in store may come with top up & "free" anyway
  I am with them, do not use phone much, much like your hubby I guess, never use the data