As Dave has suggested, Nokia have relaunched the 3310, it's a bit different to the 90s version but now has a colour screen and a very basic camera. Best of it all it's only a tenner! :
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cheap-3310-NE ... 3076688399
However, if you're like me and getting to the point where your paws don't work as well as they once did and going slightly Mutton Jeff too then a Doro might be a better choice. There's this one i picked at random for it's simplistic look :
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DORO-PHONE-EA ... Sw-29ZXNlw
Other Doros on ebay here :
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Mobile-Smart ... bile+phone
Should keep you amused for a while Nick just looking at them all!
I've got my own (ongoing) gripe about mobiles at the moment as well. Back in november last year i was due an upgrade. To be honest i didn't really want one as my 1st gen Moto G was still working fine except for one thing - the battery life or lack of!
Anyway, i succumbed to all the glitzy sales talk, kept the call package i had, paid a couple of quid a month more and upgraded to a Sony Xperia XA.
Now, besides the fact that this phone is about as well supported with accessories like dedicated car mounts/docks, cases etc as Rovers are with main dealers these days, it's had 2 serious faults in the time i've had it.
First one was the USB port, it wouldn't transfer data at first and then it wouldn't even charge.
Sent off to what i believed was Sony UK (but i've recently found out is a 3rd party repair "specialist" that although it has repair centres in Kent and northamptonshire, the call centre for verbal support is in Egypt!
) and duly repaired.
When i sent it, i put it in a large Jiffy bag folded over 3 times to give as much protection as possible.
When it was returned to me, it was sent loose in a cardboard box (stupidly the paperwork was in a bit of bubblewrap outside the box inside a polythene bag.)
Since it came back it's been "hanging", keypad/buttons unresponsive, very slow, getting incredibly hot (my guess is 60-70C based on years of experience with thermal control systems), turning itself on/off at will and the last straw was when it not only stopped recognising the SD card but deleted the contents which were all photos except for some system files the phone had put on there.
Most photos if you lose them, it's annoying, an inconvenience - most of the photos i had on there were sentimental and became moreso when the subject of them curled up his paws 4 weeks ago.
Obviously i've sent the phone back to them (again triple wrapped in a JOffyBag) and they are now trying to worm their way out of it!
As such i'm incredibly angry with Sony, their tird party repair service (SBE UK
https://sbeglobalservice.com/uk/ ) and even more furious because they're saying my phone is Beyond Economic Repair (BER) because of "physical damage".
Allegedly this physical damage is a scratch on the power button (woopety-doo, won't stop it working!) and if any other physical damage is present, the balance of probability strongly suggests it occurred when they sent it out to me in the cardboard box with no packing round it except a polythene bag!
They've offered me a "Functionally Equivalent Device!" (i'd rather have one that works to be honest!
) as detailed below :
Repair quotation
Valid until 23/10/2017
Exchange device Your device is beyond economical repair. We offer you a functionally equivalent device.
122.12 gbp
Shipping and Administration
12.31 gbp
Total
134.43 gbp
Stupid thing is, EE will sell me a "Good as New" Xperia XA for £109.99 (£24.45 cheaper!) with free delivery. As the poxy thing has failed twice inside 8 months, do i really want another?
Err, let me think on this.................... OK, i've thought...................
HELL, NO!!! A millions times "NO"!!!!!
Hope that was somewhat amusing and interesting, the bottom line is i'm now in a quandary - do i find myself another "Smartphone", buy it and use it, keep "nursing" my old Moto G along or cut my losses as far as Smartphones go and just get myself a Doro as well?
The main deciding factor is i don't get a signal at home. As such i depend on WhatsApp for messaging and a smart enough Smartphone to use Wi-Fi calling where it picks up on the Wi-Fi signal from the home broadband and routes the call over t'internet until it "breaks out" into mobile network territory.
Also i do like my camera, sat-nav, youtube and occasional internet use on the phone so i suppose that's that part of the decision made for me.
Best start saving my pennies though as the one i want i'm going to have to pay for and it's about £150 for a new one. However its much-hyped twin brother with a different brand is a lot more! In fact, comparing those two phones it turns out the cheaper one is slightly better which is a bonus!
Hope that helps with your decision making Nick!