Nokia 105 (4th Edition) all carriers 1.77 Inch UK SIM Free Feature Phone (Single SIM) – Black

just perfect

This burner takes me back 20 years when I was kid, playing games like snake, learning to text, and prank calling friends whenever I switched numbers.The battery life is impressive, lasted me for days on standby, and the phone holds up pretty well too. So far been dropped from five-foot heights twice and has yet to twitch on me.The only thing I found irritating from time to time is using the navigation button as it sometimes wouldn't properly navigate to the app I want to use, but I suppose the fact that I have big thumbs doesn't really help.It's a good phone to use overrall. Personally I use this phone as a backup for when my main one dies whenever I am out and I haven't a powerbank or an outlet for it to recharge.One thing to note - if you let this phone shut down or die for quite some time between power cycles, the date and time on the phone will go back to its default setting (eg. Jan 01 2021) which you will have to manually rectify the next time you power it on.

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!

Perfect size for putting in pocket when out and about and ideal for calls and texts. Has a good loud ringtone. Arrived on time and well packaged. If you need a handy basic phone then this is the one I am happy to recommend. I only replaced my last 105 model because it fell in my cup of tea. Comes with a charger too.