Phone for 11 year old?

[BUDFORCE]

Looking to get the boy a phone for his 11th birthday, android and pay as you go I suppose to stop him running up a huge bill, I don't think he would but just in case.

Maybe £100 budget, any ideas?

[DoubleTop]

hmm, £100 isn't much in phone terms - so you're probably looking at a refurb or a cex style purchase.

Moto G4 Play refurbs are then in price range

[Aaron]

Are you thinking smartphone or something literally just to make phone calls.

We're trialling an LG android phone at work at the moment - I think it's £80. Not super specs at all, but it runs ok, although we're only on day two.

[BUDFORCE]

Yeah pretty much just to make phone calls, I think having an it andriod smartphone probably is a must, otherwise his mates re just gonna take the **** out of him at secodary school if we get him one of those purpose build phone calls only ones, but otherwise spec wise its not so important. He has a tablet at home he can use to watch youtube and stuff and I am not actually all that keen on him having a phone he can do whatever with.

I need to have a trawl through the various pay as you go providers and see what is what. The idea of him having a phone is mainly to use it as a volountary tracking device lol - so as he gets older we can get hold of him and visa versa, but more for emergencies rather than general use. Hes not old enough to really need it for socialising etc on - plus I am not paying for that either - hence PAYG.

[michaelkenward]

Looking around, there are plenty of options in the ~£100 slot. One recent word of warning I saw is that anything other than a known brand – like of of those unknown Chinese clones – is likely to arrive with all manner or dodgy carp installed.

At least his mates don't insist that you are subhuman if you don't use an iThing.

Pity Google decided to dash upmarket with its Nexus range. A Nexus 4 lookalike would costs about £100 these days.

[Aaron]

Wonderlust sent me this as a link earlier..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wileyfox-SI...ds=wileyfox+2x

Bit more than £100, but not a lot!

• Full Alexa integration via software update coming in Dec 2017
• 5.2" Full HD 2.5d Gorilla Glass 3 display, 16MP Samsung sensor, PDAF, 1.0 big pixel primary camera & 8MP selfie camera
• Octa Core SnapDragon CPU
• 3GB RAM, 32GB Onboard Storage, expandable memory up to 128GB
• Dual Sim
• Android Pay ready, Fingerprint reader, Quick Charge 3.0, USB Type C connection and the latest version of Android Nougat

[BUDFORCE]

At least his mates don't insist that you are subhuman if you don't use an iThing

Even if they did, we've brought him up better than that

[omega]

Wonderlust sent me this as a link earlier..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wileyfox-SI...ds=wileyfox+2x

Bit more than £100, but not a lot!

• Full Alexa integration via software update coming in Dec 2017
• 5.2" Full HD 2.5d Gorilla Glass 3 display, 16MP Samsung sensor, PDAF, 1.0 big pixel primary camera & 8MP selfie camera
• Octa Core SnapDragon CPU
• 3GB RAM, 32GB Onboard Storage, expandable memory up to 128GB
• Dual Sim
• Android Pay ready, Fingerprint reader, Quick Charge 3.0, USB Type C connection and the latest version of Android Nougat

My sister has gone through 4 Wileyfox phones this year, all broken with various issues, SIM stopped working, screen stopped working, touchscreen stopped working. Pain the rear to replace a phone every few weeks. You get what you pay for.

[BigIan88]

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/pay-...-payg/sku90342

[Aaron]

My sister has gone through 4 Wileyfox phones this year, all broken with various issues, SIM stopped working, screen stopped working, touchscreen stopped working. Pain the rear to replace a phone every few weeks. You get what you pay for.

She must be dropping them or using them as dishcloths or something then...

This one has been rock solid so far, as have all the other ones I know of in use at work and within my circle of friends..

I think AndyN even has one?

[Aaron]

You get what you pay for.

Also, the iPhoneX would suggest otherwise..

[DoubleTop]

Elephone A8 can be found for £50 and one arrived in the office today. We are planning to send them out without sim to showcase the app in the offices are the clients who are using it.

Really snappy little device - can't go wrong. Whether you can get one in time, another matter!

DT.