Sorry I know it's boring, but mobile phone alternative to iphones

Surely kids with iPhones have got to be in the minority at school?

If they merely want an iPhone because it's seen as "cool" to have one, then why not get them a second hand or reconditioned 4S?

In terms of phone functionality I doubt you can go wrong with a Nexus, the new one has just come out and I'm actually thinking of ditching the iPhone for one of those once I've had a play with one. They are about £300 though for the 5, not sure if you can still buy the 4 new.

 

I like my Samsung s4 - great phone and easy to use.

My mate has a Nexus and he hasn't had a problem with it. Think there's a new Nexus due out very soon.

 

I lot of Phones ill do what an Iphone will.
Now i don't know what age your taking about but i think the difference between Android and apple is the App store.

 

Kids shouldn't have mobiles at schools, no wonder education is going down the pan if kids are too busy playing with their latest gadgets!

 

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/nex...ine-now-for-delivery-store-collection-1696136

 

Just guessing but surely the kids who have got iPhones will be the old ones that their parents have upgraded from, generally anyway.

Technologically, iPhones aren't really any different to what they were several years ago but the Android phones have continued to improve, some would argue they are actually better seeing as all the popular iPhone apps are available on Android anyway. But I know kids probably don't see it like that. Probably doesn't help that TV companies like the BBC insist on including an Apple phone, tablet or computer on almost all of their programs - makes you wonder whether they are being paid to show them sometimes as a lot of the time there really isn't any need for them being there.

If it's simply a smart phone they want then you can probably go as low as £50 for one but at that end of the market you definitely get what you pay for.

 

I understand the contacting them part but I hate to see kids with phones, especially under 12's

 

Can't believe they even allow them, I left school in 1999 and during my last couple of years pay as you go phones were just about affordable (in the region of £150 or so I think), although the call costs were very expensive. I don't think I ever took mine to school but the teachers were quick to confiscate them from anyone who had one for the duration of the lesson.

I can imagine these days there's a few minutes before every lesson messing about while the teachers remind everyone to turn their phone off, then interruptions from those who didn't bother, and of course most would simply put it on vibrate and won't be able to resist checking a message when they feel it vibrate in their pocket.

As a learning tool, smartphones are great, it must be a piece of p*ss to go through education these days basically having the worlds biggest library in your pocket, yet society has chosen to use it more for "selfies", sending eachother pointless messages, and having meaningless debates on forums I'd have loved to have had that kind of thing available when I was going through education, even at college there were only a few computers which were connected to the internet so looking up information would normally involve sifting through a 20 year-old book in the central library!

 

didn't think about that to be honest, when I was a kid I was ruled by the setting of the sun! Once it started to get dark it was a cue to go home, and if I didn't it was a cue for a friends mum to say "your mother will be wondering where you are!"

 

Slightly off the wall suggestion
Huawei Y300 with Ovivo Sim.
You can get the handset from car phone warehouse as a path upgrade for £60. All you need is a path sim that has been topped up in the last 6 months. £20 for the sim on the freedom tariff. Job's a good un. The phone has smartphone looks, a reasonably recent android version, basic specs but adequate for the basics.

The downside is that on the gadget front it has no cool factor whatsoever.

 

Ffs path = PAYG. Bloody smartphone predictive text!

 

http://direct.asda.com/Nokia-Lumia-520-Mobile-Phone---Vodafone/008737478,default,pd.html

Nokia windows smart phone, does loads of stuff and only £85 asda direct, got one 2 weeks ago when it was £100 ;-(

 

Depends what you're gauging it on, I've had a Blackberry 9300 for about 4 years which I use as a line for my freelance work (ie one I can turn off when I can't be a*sed to take any work calls) and as a pure communications device for calls, texts and emails I still don't think you can beat them. Battery life is brilliant, the email apps are bulletproof and there is a real "warm" feel to the call quality. I don't think anything to tapping out a 1000 word email on the Blackberry, I wouldn't dare on my iPhone with it trying to correct words that haven't even been spelled incorrectly etc, and no amount of haptic feedback is every going to replace the press of a button.

Yes their app store is pathetic, you can pay £15 for a calculator which is just crazy. I think Blackberry's problem (or whoever makes them) is they have tried to make phones which compete with iPhones etc in the last few years and that isn't really what a Blackberry is all about. Sadly, Blackberry phones will either disappear altogether or they will just be another company making Android phones in the future.

 

Best phone at that price definitely.

But if they're wanting Iphones or Nexus 5s they're not going to be happy.

 

Kids are never happy, I used to be grateful for a few bits at xmas, nowadays kids want everything. About time parents told em NO for a change

 

£85 on Vodafone but it's £117 on o2? How does that work?