Nokia 216 SIM Free Feature Phone - Black

Very fast and good working phone, only problem is it does not go on silent but you can turn it off when in Meetings or need it not to go off. Very impressed with the speed on internet. Easy to use and Very light weight and nice slim case i got with it as well as screen Procter as a set for not much more than the phone was worth. can get calls and very loud,clear working sound. stores a few songs on there over 25 songs. Battier life is good and lasts for 5 days. This phone can get 1 app and comes with Facebook app already. Love this Mobile and the color is so bright. My Message Tone is now last of the summer wine as into that comedy program.

I am sick of using international calling app to call my parents and friends in India. So, I have decided to get a Lebara SIM to make only international calls. So, the phone I wanted where there is a way I can store a few phone numbers, plenty of battery life and cheap to buy. When looked at Amazon, this one looked nice and ticked all the boxes. - This phone cover is made of hard plastic. I dropped (not intentional) twice so far, it didn’t break. - Has front selfie camera and back main camera. Bot are VGA - Display - 240x320 pixel TFT - Accept Micro SD card (maximum 32GB) - Internal memory - 16 MB RAM - You can store 2000 phone numbers - It doesn’t have Wifi, but has Bluetooth (3.0) - Battery - 1020 may Li-ion. Standby up to 576 hrs PRICE: 9/10 QUALITY: 8/10 FEATURES: 7/10 RELIABILITY: Time will tell 😀. I will update accordingly. If you are looking for a cheap work phone to make phone calls, this is the phone for you. Charge once and forget.

Update: initially I gave one star, it turns out the SIM adapter was rubbish, hence not recognising my card. Why one star. overall the phone is cheap, light weight and easy to use and set up.Voice calls are of good quality and there is basic connectivity to the internet but obviously this is no smartphone. It was intended as my backup phone but as It occasionally recognizes my Sim card or suddenly forgets it is there for no reason its pretty much useless. I'm not sure if it is an actual fault with the phone or the fact it is an micro Sim in a full SIM holder? I've lost count of the times I've removed my sim and replaced it.

I bought this to replace my old C! Nokia which had done about 10 years sterling work. The only reason why this one does not get an even better score is because it lose out in comparison to the old phone. It is quite a bit larger, which cuts both ways. There is for example more room on the screen for texts. But it is bigger in the pocket. It has a much busier menu, but mostly full of things that I'm sure it doesn't cope with that well (e.g. Facebook and bing, but not twitter). It is not a smart phone, but it is pretending too much. Calendar. A cut down version from my old phone, which is annoying. There are only 4 possible times for an alert: 15mins, 30mins, 1hour and 1 day. So when I have a train to catch and I want say a 2 hour alert, I have to enter a fictitious time for it. Also the space for event location has gone so you have to squeeze this in with the event itself. Even MORE annoying, there is only room for a limited number of events (45 I think), so you have to go through calendar erasing old events!! JUST STUPID. Texts. Some flashy conversation-style connecting between texts, but no predictive typing; annoying. Contacts. Only one number per entry, and no space for website or address details. Annoying. Camera. Not sure if it is any better than the old one, but now there are two! And the useful right button is dedicated to selfies, where I'm sure the low def makes them murky and useless. However battery life is still great, and it all functions like a Nokia, which may be the same thing as intuitive. I bought an Alcatel as a stop gap, and the phone was almost unusable (especially for texts) with a very inferior battery life. So still a great phone, even better if it didn't pretend to be what it isn't. AND DID THE BASICS BETTER

Bought as fed up with my complicated smart phone. Nokia easy and robust, no silly functions and doesn't need charging every five minutes.

The original purpose of buying this mobile was to serve the requirements of my mother, her very old Nokia has been pretty unreliable in the past couple of weeks and had been definitely in turn for a little upgrade, she is not really into the smartphone business and much prefers the simple call and text functionality, plus with her experience of using the Nokia interface for the past god knows years, I thought it would be best to stick with what she knows. I had a little play around with phone upon setup and it's a pretty neat little phone, the flash/torch is definitely useful and feels just like the interface she had on her old Nokia. The camera is pretty bad, but what do you expect and I installed a small 4GB Mirco SD card (Just for storage of texts, contacts, photos) as the internal storage is little to nothing. Now, it does have the ability to go on the internet via Opera, Facebook, but to be honest I probably wouldn't recommend it. That's what tablets, smartphones and computers are for. Nevertheless, I can now say my mother is very pleased with the upgrade - even if it's a small one, but it serves her purpose to a tea.

Nokia 216 SIM Free 2G-only Feature Phone - Black I have had this phone for a while now. Overall use of it has been a tad frustrating to say the least. Negatives/Cons: 1) DIFFICULT TO SELECT FUNCTIONS - The square menu/function selection button has undesired results. You click the top of it to go up, and it takes you sideways or down. When you then want to select an option, it might take you to a different function in the menu. 2) You get a missed a call and you want to cancel the notification, but when you try, IT THEN STARTS CALLING THE NUMBER! Not good if you're checking the phone in the middle of the night. 3) There doesn't appear to be a way of customising the main function. I often go in to 'Selfie' mode when I am merely trying to disconnect a call. 4) The text editor is not fit for purpose. A significant amount of every day basic English words are missing from the default dictionary, and there is no easy apparent way of adding these. 5) The silent profile is not silent! It needs to be configured to make it silent. I found this out to my horror when my phone started ringing LOUDLY towards the end of an important well attended meeting. So embarrassing! I have never before had to make the silent profile on a phone silent in all my years of using mobile phones. 6) Why does this even have a camera? I took one photo and couldn't work out what it was of! 7) When you disconnect a call, it doesn't disconnect. you often have to press the disconnect button twice. 8) If you press the on/off button for more than a second or two, the phone gets turned off. This is because the list of options that come up have 'Switch Off' as the FIRST one. I have unwittingly switched my phone off far too many times because of this. I use the phone for emergencies as well as everyday use, so it's not great if I'm waiting for an important call and the phone isn't even on! 9) You get a text and get the option to ignore. You can read what's in a text if it's short because it shows up in the notification. But ignore doesn't really do anything because you still have to open the text in order to ignore or delete it! Positives/Pros 1) The torch is extremely useful and does not drain the battery 2) The battery life is excellent - can usually get by with weekly charging 3) The battery charges up very quickly, normally an hour or so 4) Talk time is usually crystal clear 5) It does have a second slim slot for data, but as the camera is rubbish I haven't even used my second sim. On the basis of my experience I would not recommend this product to anyone else.

Love this phone. Light, well made, easy to set up, easy to use, easy to carry. If you like loads of gadgets, don't bother; this phone will access the 'net but is really nice and simple with no fussy (in my opinion) nonsense. It doesn't do "apps" - good, they drive me scatty (and if anyone finds out that it can - don't tell me). Also, somehow, it picks up the local mobile signal way better than my last, (so-called) smart phone. I have now bought two - one for me and one for my partner. The only gripe (and it is a personal preference only) is the button on the top right of the keypad being permanently on the "selfie" function. I have absolutely NO intention of EVER taking a selfie and would really like change it but so far can't find a way to do it. Any ideas??? Other than that minor grump, super little phone.