Another recommend me a phone thread - with a difference

[daveyrach]

So it is my son's 14th birthday soon and I have been putting off buying him a phone as he is ridiculously bad at looking after things. We are planning to get him one this birthday.

Here is the criteria:

Must be cheap (<£50 second hand)
Must be Android (to enable our parental control software)
Have decent memory (so many cheap phones have abysmal memory)
Must be PAYG (Vodafone preferably)


I have seen a couple, Vodafone make and own brand Smart Mini, but the specs aren't brilliant, the best one I have come across is the Huawei Ascend G300.

Any suggestions would be greatly recieved

[rb8989]

Alcatel OT-9483. Root and remove bloatware + sd card.

I use one as a bike gps. was £40 new.

[rockster]

Sorry, nothing to contribute to your question I'm afraid but interested in your comment about parental control software - which do you use and would you recommend it?

[daveyrach]

I use one called Qustodio. It is available for Android, iPhone, PC and Mac.

http://www.qustodio.com/?utm_expid=69500132-0

The free one is good but I paid for the premium version which gives u social monitoring aswell. You can set time limits aswell e.g my son's tablet locks at 10pm so he is unable to use it.

Would definitely recommend it.

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[rockster]

Thanks Davey - good luck with finding a phone!