(Gawd, I hope she never sees that thread title.)
My mother has for years bought PAYG dumb Nokias and been very happy with their durability and battery life. She was only ever interested in calls, texts and taking photos.
They're not so easy to get now though, and now that she's used to touchscreens (Kindle, Hudl) and has seen what smartphones can do she might be willing to go down that route.
Sadly she can't be persuaded to buy an iPhone (she refuses to pay that kind of money for something she'll only use sporadically) and I will disown her if she goes down the Android route
, so I was thinking her best bet would be a Nokia Lumia 435. She is familiar with Windoze 7, so it wouldn't all be totally alien, although she is not a techie by any stretch of the imagination and is easily frustrated/intimidated when her laptop or tablet don't work as they should.
Is this a reasonable plan? Or does anyone have any caveats / alternative suggestions?
TIA.
My mother has for years bought PAYG dumb Nokias and been very happy with their durability and battery life. She was only ever interested in calls, texts and taking photos.
They're not so easy to get now though, and now that she's used to touchscreens (Kindle, Hudl) and has seen what smartphones can do she might be willing to go down that route.
Sadly she can't be persuaded to buy an iPhone (she refuses to pay that kind of money for something she'll only use sporadically) and I will disown her if she goes down the Android route
, so I was thinking her best bet would be a Nokia Lumia 435. She is familiar with Windoze 7, so it wouldn't all be totally alien, although she is not a techie by any stretch of the imagination and is easily frustrated/intimidated when her laptop or tablet don't work as they should.Is this a reasonable plan? Or does anyone have any caveats / alternative suggestions?
TIA.
But thanks for all the input so far. I maybe need to investigate the imminent arrival of W10; silly me, I assumed all new phones would ship with it.