LG KG271 and KG275 budget phones

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Sounds good. Is the FM radio and the colour scheme the only difference between the two? I'm tempted to try and buy the cheaper one over the internet - will they work OK in the UK?

All well and good

It's all well and good making it simple but they're missing out on a big trick. Yes make it simple and small but put a big f#$k off battery in it. 4 hours talk time, that's not really any better than my Blackberry. How about one that has 8 or 12 hours talk time? That way when your on the lash for the weekend you've got a phone that's cheap enough that you don't mind loosing it and you don't need to charge it!

@Neil Barnes

You're a Luddite.

So am I - now, more than ever, I'm firmly of the belief that so-called convergent technology is horribly overrated. I don't want something that does Bluetooth, GPRS, EDGE, XYZ, DOA etc. and makes tea, I want something that can make calls and send occasional SMS. No more, no less.

Hell, if one of the networks offered one of these on, say, a 15 or 20 quid per month contract I'd take their hands off, even if the network in question were someone as hopeless as Vodafone or Orange (but not O2 ... let's not go there). The Motorola F3 would have been a contender were it not for the truly horrific usability (tried one, hated it)

However, given the network's obsession with flogging bling to the trash generation, I think the chance of either of these handsets becoming readily available in the UK is somewhere on the far side of nil.

Now please, someone go and prove me wrong, 'cos I want one :-) (not bothered which, although I doubt the FM radio'd version will do long-wave!)

simple phones for simple people

in advocating more features and bemoaning the lack of them the author misses the point entirely. there are people like me who, though old, pre-tech and cast aside as worthless by the tech loving class, still may want to make a call away from home. they, we, just want to making a bloody call. don't care if the phone is a media/entertainment source. don't do messaging preferring to simply call the freaking person. don't particularly want a gps unit in a phone. don't want to see or hear ads from the phone. just a phone to be a phone. with a key pad made for someone with human fingertips and normal to subnormal vision.

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"In advocating more features and bemoaning the lack of them the author misses the point entirely."

I rather think the author is making exactly the opposite point; that the lack of features is to be welcomed.

KG 275 in UK for £9.99

Just bought one of the machines as described above from my local Sainsbury's -- on special half-price offer, hence the £9.99 price tag.

Seems absolutely OK to me (BTW: I've *never* used a mobile phone in my life before; so absolutely everything about it was NEW knowledge to me.)

Two hiccups:

1) They could really do with some instructions on how to insert a sim card -- like a picture telling you to slide it UNDER the metal holder-bar across the depression under the battery that takes the sim.

(Took me an hour to work that one out. It's neither obvious; nor easy to insert the card.)

2) WTF is my own phone number? How do I find out?

(I wasn't given one when the card was activated over the freephone number by a guy who obviously learned his English from the manic camp DJ in 'The Fifth Element'.)

Otherwise -- a doddle. For a pensioner with a PhD, but NIL knowledge of what a mobile phone is.

Martin Wheeler

mwheeler at startext dot co dot uk

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Martin, to find your own number go to Menu - Contacts - 7 Information - 2 Own Numbers. Should show as Line 1 with the number at the bottom of the screen.