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Was tempted by the Nokia brand (I've owned several in the past) and the long list of smartphone features. All for such a low price, and in a compact phone, yet still having a decent size screen (5.7 inch). Good to have dual Sim and a separate micro card slot, I hate those shared slots. Mine is in a nice colour too, cyan green. All good news until I touched the first icon once it was up and running, and I thought it hadn't registered my finger, so I went towards pressing it again .... and after an age it responded. Checking the specs again revealed it's just a quad-core 1.3 GHz chip set. These days that's just not fast enough, and it's a surprise for a model first issued in 2020. But if speed isn't your thing then you'll love this phone.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Cheap, neat and good looking, slow as molasses. I should have read the reviews on line! As a phone, this is completely and utterly useless. It is so slow that one cannot get to the menu/popup in time to say yes to receive a call. Really! I have carefully gone through the process list removing everything that is running (some apps keep running) in order to free up memory for vitals, and it is still so slow that sometimes one just wants to throw it out the window. It ha about 1GB RAM, as I recall, and that is clearly not enough for the mess of system processes. I haven't tried adding memory, but there is a slot for it ... is it RA or flash RAM? (flash RAM wouldn't help). It is also running a cut-down version of ANdroid 10, presumably in an effort to reduce resource requirements, but the upshot is that one doesn't have some tools one would want. There is a semi-secret developer's menu (tap seven times ...) in the system area, and that gives one a lot more optons ... I have told it not to ever turn off when on the charging cable (why would one ...! How come that is a developer-only option) , and to show with a dot where I am hitting on screen, and various other helpful things. Battery life is not an issue, since one really cannot make or receive any phone calls on this! It lasts two days easily when mostly off, which is a lot more than the day and something promised. (I bought this to get through airports, with all the electronic documents one needs now, and it is fine for that - as a tiny computer, it's almost OK if not exactly a record breeaker! Just not any good as a phone! Document viewer, email reader .. all as good as one can expect, except often deadly slow .. just phone no). I had to learn to turn the phone sideways to type, to get the larger keyboard. I'm a smartphone novice. I replaced the android home screen "launcher" with one from microsoft, which for ONCE, takes less resources. This simply will not connect by wifi to my home wifi network, but I believe that to be a generic fault in TP-Link (not the phone) recent modern equipment. They have acknowledged the bug I see against Intel wifi devices, and I suspect it's generic. A TP-Link booboo. The phone sees the signal disappear every couple of minutes, though it is there. As a result it can't stream anything. Being so slow, it usually can't log on in time between seeing the signal drop (it doesn't). The result is a complete messup and not worth the bother. Elsewhere it's fine - just not on my TP-Link (or sercomm) wifi routers. It can be used for browsing and email, more or less, even there, if I wait for a connection. I am using the dual SIM slots, both, but it's pretty well impossible to figure which one is going to be used to send texts, or make a call, because the menus are so slow! About 30s after watever happened, happened, you get a menu showing you what you might have chosen. The camera takes great pictures, but thanks to the slowness it is really impossible to tell what you have taken a picture of or when. Press the button and nothing happens. Hold still and at some later time it will have decided it has taken a photo. If you are aiming at something that moves even a little, it's impossible. In summary, a great little document displayer! Hopeless otherwise. Apparently Nokia's first step into the modern keyboardless smartphone world, and it seems largely bought in from Huwei, component-wise. Perhaps their subsequent modern phones are better. Hopefully so, as Nokia old phones were excellent and I stll use mine .. so I trusted them and that was why I bought this one when I needed to join the modern world Mistake! Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This phone has turned out to be even better than I imagined, with an excellent crystal clear display screen, accessing the internet is easy & the phone is plenty fast enough for watching videos etc. The camera gives good quality images & overall the phone is very easy to use.Battery life is extremely good & if used mainly for calls & texts it only needs charging every 5-6 days, bearing in mind that it is switched on 24/7. The only minor complaint I might have is that the Goggle assist key is very easy to activate inadvertently. This phone is very good value for money.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Nokia have not lost their touch.. This phone will do the same as others costing five times as much! My ONLY critique would be that the back does not come off as easily as I would have liked, when fitting the battery and sim. (took forever, thus the 4/5) Otherwise, dont spend a fortune when you dont have to! Great value and quality...
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Good value for money Easy to set up and use. the only problems I had was the Facebook light app which I uninstalled and installed normal Facebook and the memory card that I fitted caused some problems with whats app,soon sorted when I removed it,
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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