Nokia 105 (2019 edition) 1.77-Inch UK SIM Free Feature Phone (Single SIM) – Black

Great little phone that meets the new school requirements

Item as described, good seller.

At first you'd be forgiven if what you were ordering was a quality Nokia product, but despite how simple the phone is, Nokia get the design wrong in every conceivable manner. Where to begin? The navigation pad in the middle of the phone is over-sensitive, flimsy, and small, often misinterpreting inputs, such as pressing up as meaning 'okay' or moving left when you try to accept or read something. This makes navigating the menu and trying to read text messages an unpleasant experience. The worst part is the pad controls the torch by pressing up, and is very easy to accidentally activate the torch just trying to press centre to go to the menu. This means hassle in turning off the torch. For some reason, rather than mapping the right button to something sensible like operating the torch or messages, it is bizarrely set to 'alarm', because apparently an alarm clock is more important than 'contacts', 'messages' or even the torch? There doesn't appear to be a way to re-map this button's usage either. The tiny size and over-sensitive nature of the pad make it a terrible choice for older people, especially if they have any hand tremors or difficulty with small buttons and is not recommended for seniors looking for a simple button control system. Text messaging doesn't seem to allow manual text typing and instead forces you to experience it's unpleasant real-time autocomplete by default. It's possible to disable this for one session, but you will have to disable it *every time* you go to write a text or edit a text message. The "ganes" the phone claims to have are actually only one game - Snake - and the other ones (Air Strike, Sky Gift, Tetris, Nitro Racing, Ninja Up) all clog up menu space - blocking access to the options menu - demanding a whopping rip-off of £5 EACH to buy. For comparison, smartphone games are either free, ad-based or cost something like 0.99p each. Apparently Nokia actually thought that people would pay money for outdated games to play using their terrible pad control system. There's no option to remove the unwanted non-games either. The bad design doesn't end there either; if you've plugged in a headset or the charge cable and wanted to remove the back cover - you can't. For some reason, the ports are inset inside the battery cover, so the plugged in cables literally block removal of the cover until they are unplugged. The fix for that would have been surprisingly easy - cutting out the holes to make them open-ended so it slides past the plugged in cables. The phone, unusually, requires a full sized SIM card and not a micro or mini SIM card that has become more prevalent. The phone is incredibly slow, almost unresponsive, on powering up - taking 5 to 10 seconds to even show a lit screen, sometimes requiring multiple extended presses for anything to happen, and you wouldn't be blamed if you thought the phone was defective. The only thing that stands up to scrutiny is the battery, which does indeed last days, but a battery doesn't give Nokia much room to screw up, so it's not surprising it's the only thing that works as intended. Recommend to avoid!

I needed this phone as an emergency replacement whilst my significantly more expensive phone was being repaired. Pros: Exellent battery life, double sim slots, sound quality is fine. Cons: Many steps needed for simple things eg just sending a text is a multiple step process- this is not in fact a simple phone And cannot do an number of things expected of a basic phone and pensioners etc would be better looking elsewhere. The phone and keys are very small, I have small fingers so it’s not so bad but can’t imagine using this if I had manly fingers. It is not easy settling the sims correctly as they go into a slot which has too much wiggle room for them so it was trial and error getting them in place. All in all considering the price I would say that this is great to leave in the car for emergencies and will be a great short term cheap alternative for me but if I had to have it longer term it would frustrate me to the core!

Seems ok , feels a bit like a toy but works well for the price

It's clearly not a purchase you make to take advantage of being fully wired up to the world, but this Nokia series has always provided good little workhorses for those happy to be a bit more selective in their comms. The problem now is that the look, feel and tech has been stripped back to the bare minimum. Messaging is especially frustrating because functions like predictive text and retaining the recipient for a reply have been removed. Battery life is definitely not what it was either. Ultimately, it still does the basics, but any fun in doing them is getting harder to find. I'd look after your older models, you may want to revert to them if the future continues on its current course.

had a problem with the phone it was not charging, it was my fault as the battery terminals still had plastic strip on them which i had not removed.Seller got in touch and pointed this out to me and the phone works great now.thank you to the seller for there help.

Bought this because I got fed up having to carry around my smartphone all the time. Nice and compact phone and well worth the £14 I paid. Comes boxed with a charger and battery. I like these phones because the battery lasts a long time and they are quick and easy to use. It was a bit fiddly getting the back off to put the SIM card in, you need a flat knife to prise it off - it's that tight.. but once it's in the back snaps back in with no chance of it coming apart if you drop it. Made a few calls and it sounds very clear. Perfect combined with an unlimited talk and text for £4 a month. Very happy with it.

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