The £5 phone

tres · 27 Jun 2010 at 00:47

How crazy is it, where you can pick up a fully functional mobile phone for £5 these days? Cheaper than you once spent on a new battery, or a case, or a crazy frog ringtone?

http://shop.o2.co.uk/mobile_phone/features/LG/GB102
if anyone is interested. I've bought a couple in case of emergencies (boat/car) etc

edit: And it's free delivery
Possible quidco/tcb

stoke1863 · 27 Jun 2010 at 00:51

Tempted to get one for the festivals. Dont want to lose my good phone

Scythe · 27 Jun 2010 at 00:53

stoke1863 said:
Tempted to get one for the festivals. Dont want to lose my good phone

My thoughts exactly. Although in carphone warehouse, there's a 99p alcatel, although you have to buy £10 top up, although if you're already on the network you don't have to IIRC?

Robbo · 27 Jun 2010 at 00:53

It has a colour screen too :eek:

*insert obligatory better at calling people than the iPhone 4 here*

Biohazard · 27 Jun 2010 at 00:55

I liked the cheap motorola that had a very simple black and white screen a couple of years ago, was a tenner or something

preffered that as I just hate looking at cheap small colour screens!

edit: its the w210.

simple phone.

andy85 · 27 Jun 2010 at 00:59

Damn O2 site won't load because I'm not in the UK.

"andy" · 27 Jun 2010 at 01:18

orange do a cheap samsung for ''free'' if you put 10 quid credit on

my grandad took them up on the offer then promptly put the phone through the wash. went in the shop with his broken phone and sim card and for another tenner they gave him another phone and 10quid credit onto his old sim. basically getting a free phone everytime you top up although im guesing they where just being nice too him and dont normally do that unless you get a new sim

Bengaboy · 27 Jun 2010 at 01:47

It is crazy - like you say a few of these would be ideal "just incase!".

chaparral · 27 Jun 2010 at 02:18

I can't see it

Just comes up with this message

Unfortunately, we are unable to sell to countries outside the UK.

dowie · 27 Jun 2010 at 03:01

stoke1863 said:
Tempted to get one for the festivals. Dont want to lose my good phone

^^^ this

v glad OP posted this thread as I was about to look for a cheap mobile for festivals... 400h standby and only £5, I guess you can't go wrong with this one

ashlaqueen · 27 Jun 2010 at 03:03

I bought a 10 quid LG phone at Tesco. Doing its job fine for me.

Begbie · 27 Jun 2010 at 03:06

This > iPhone

snapdragon · 27 Jun 2010 at 08:26

I agree these are superb, just picked up 2 of them, also picked up a nokia 2760 for £5 in a local cash / exchange type shop boxed with charger headphones etc network unlocked, I know it's old but it's ideal for knocking about and couldn't care less if I lose it as it's cheaper to buy a phone now than a packet of smokes or a portion of fish n chips lol

Shadows1990 · 27 Jun 2010 at 08:27

Begbie said:
This > iPhone

You could buy a hundred of these phones for the price of an iPhone 4th Gen

(a friend paid £500 for his).

Neodite · 27 Jun 2010 at 08:53

Just ordered 2 of these

One will stay in the car and the other will be at work. Never known when you might be short of signal on your main phone or run out of juice while out in the car and can have a fully charged one in your glove box

Cheers OP for the link/info

POB · 27 Jun 2010 at 10:16

Pay as You Go Order £3.50 Cashback on TopCashback, making it possibly £1.5

DirtyRaver · 27 Jun 2010 at 11:10

just bought one through Quidco, wonder if it'll track, £3.50 back if so!

AMDPower · 27 Jun 2010 at 18:19

I am assuming these are locked to O2 only?

mcompute · 28 Jun 2010 at 00:01

Nice find, probably an iPhone beater.