This might not be the best place to ask this as you’ll all be asking far more of your phones than I ever will, but I need to buy a mobile phone so friends can get a hold of me when we meet up in a different city next month. The battery on the mobile I bought when I moved two years ago won’t take a charge now.
I’m mostly housebound because of chronic illness and my life is very lonely, so even when I am out it’s not like anyone is trying to reach me. Home internet with a laptop and tablet serves 99.999% of my needs.
So I suppose the big criteria is that the bloody thing won’t die when I don’t manage to keep it charged.
EDIT: I bought a replacement battery for £17. It should be here end of the week. What I need is a grandkid who can just tell me those sorts of things. Anyone want to adopt me? 🙃
@emma@beehaw.org If you are looking for a phone with an huge battery, CAT phones (“CAT” from “Caterpillar” - yeah, they make phones) can be interesting for you. You can choose one of them depending on how much you’re ready to spend on it.
Otherwise, Fairphone 3 and 4 are good options as you can replace their battery when it dies, and they provide spare ones for as long as thhe device is supported (they support them usually much longer than most phones from other manufacturers, so far). I own a Fairphone 4 and it’s very good. But maybe too expensive if it isn’t your main internet/entertainment device.
Not really, they’re just rebranded Chinese no name phones.
Still, yes, they are good.