Nokia 105 (4th Edition) all carriers 1.77 Inch UK SIM Free Feature Phone (Single SIM) – Black

Amazing quality. I've been using a smartphone for just over 10 years and decided to go back to these sort of phones. I put in my EE sim and it works very well, thank you! Sound quality is great too.

We bought this phone to receive calls for an electric gate. A little difficult to get the back off and put the tiny SIM card in but easy to put the back on thereafter. The phone buttons are small and easy to press the wrong thing but at its price it’s hard to grumble. Phone call quality is good. Interesting to be able to have dual SIMs but haven’t used that facility as it is only for the gate calls. The phone is plastic and the colour bright enough not to loose it!

At first you'd be forgiven if what you were ordering was a quality Nokia product, but despite how simple the phone is, Nokia get the design wrong in every conceivable manner. Where to begin?The navigation pad in the middle of the phone is over-sensitive, flimsy, and small, often misinterpreting inputs, such as pressing up as meaning 'okay' or moving left when you try to accept or read something. This makes navigating the menu and trying to read text messages an unpleasant experience.The worst part is the pad controls the torch by pressing up, and is very easy to accidentally activate the torch just trying to press centre to go to the menu. This means hassle in turning off the torch. For some reason, rather than mapping the right button to something sensible like operating the torch or messages, it is bizarrely set to 'alarm', because apparently an alarm clock is more important than 'contacts', 'messages' or even the torch? There doesn't appear to be a way to re-map this button's usage either.The tiny size and over-sensitive nature of the pad make it a terrible choice for older people, especially if they have any hand tremors or difficulty with small buttons and is not recommended for seniors looking for a simple button control system.Text messaging doesn't seem to allow manual text typing and instead forces you to experience it's unpleasant real-time autocomplete by default. It's possible to disable this for one session, but you will have to disable it *every time* you go to write a text or edit a text message.The "ganes" the phone claims to have are actually only one game - Snake - and the other ones (Air Strike, Sky Gift, Tetris, Nitro Racing, Ninja Up) all clog up menu space - blocking access to the options menu - demanding a whopping rip-off of £5 EACH to buy. For comparison, smartphone games are either free, ad-based or cost something like 0.99p each. Apparently Nokia actually thought that people would pay money for outdated games to play using their terrible pad control system. There's no option to remove the unwanted non-games either.The bad design doesn't end there either; if you've plugged in a headset or the charge cable and wanted to remove the back cover - you can't. For some reason, the ports are inset inside the battery cover, so the plugged in cables literally block removal of the cover until they are unplugged. The fix for that would have been surprisingly easy - cutting out the holes to make them open-ended so it slides past the plugged in cables.The phone, unusually, requires a full sized SIM card and not a micro or mini SIM card that has become more prevalent.The phone is incredibly slow, almost unresponsive, on powering up - taking 5 to 10 seconds to even show a lit screen, sometimes requiring multiple extended presses for anything to happen, and you wouldn't be blamed if you thought the phone was defective.The only thing that stands up to scrutiny is the battery, which does indeed last days, but a battery doesn't give Nokia much room to screw up, so it's not surprising it's the only thing that works as intended.Recommend to avoid!

My monthly mobile usage typically amounts to sending a dozen texts and receiving debit card authorization codes for the occasional online purchase. I therefore have no need for (or desire to get) a smartphone, so when my trusty Nokia 2330 recently packed up, I bought this simple model as a replacement.The Nokia 105 is sleek, but sturdy and does the basics really well. Call quality is good, as is the texting function, but what impressed me the most is how energy efficient this handset is, with a full charge lasting well over a week (though I do switch the phone off at night and at work). The menu is very easy to navigate and there is one free game (Snake), a radio and a torch.I have reluctantly deducted one star due to a couple of minor issues. Firstly, the small menu button is quite fiddly and sensitive, which might be problematic for those with large fingers or shaky hands. In addition, when sending texts, only the number of the intended recipient is displayed on the confirmation screen, so extra care and concentration are required here.However, the Nokia 105 is still a quality mobile that is ideal for anyone who wants a basic pay-as-you-go phone without all the excessive (and in many cases, unnecessary) extras associated with smartphones. Recommended.P.S. This phone takes a full size sim card.

If you ever need a break from smart phones this Nokia is fine for making calls and sending brief messages. No camera or anything other than a phone.

Stopped working after 3 months

Fab colour - not easy to absentmindedly 'put down and lose'. Easy to use. Does what it needs to do. And importantly has both Tetris and Snake games to play. I've not looked at all the other games. Easy to place blocks and screening on certain numbers. Much more sophisticated than my original Nokia phone from years ago. Battery lasts about a week!

Great product.