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Customers are happy with the ease of use of the cellular phone. However, some customers have reported issues with the buttons being sensitive and fiddly. Opinions are mixed on quality, battery life, value, performance, sound quality, and weight.
448 customers mention ‘Ease of use’375 positive73 negative
Customers find the phone easy to use. They say the menu is easy to navigate, and the software or user interface is mostly ok. They also say the phone is very basic and ideal for anyone who wants an inexpensive mobile for work. Customers also mention that there are no apps that need to be installed.
"...phones because the battery lasts a long time and they are quick and easy to use...." Read more
"Simple and easy to use, battery life that goes on forever" Read more
"...The menu is very easy to navigate and there is one free game (Snake), a radio and a torch...." Read more
"I purchased this for my grandparent and its a life saver. Easy to use/ understand and they absolutely love the colour. Great battery life" Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the quality of the cellular phone. Some say that it's a good basic telephone with a long battery life. However, others say that the phone is too cheaply made, flimsy, and riddled with design flaws.
"...Made a few calls and it sounds very clear. Perfect combined with an unlimited talk and text for £4 a month. Very happy with it." Read more
"...The navigation pad in the middle of the phone is over-sensitive, flimsy, and small, often misinterpreting inputs, such as pressing up as meaning '..." Read more
"...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..." Read more
"I purchased this for my grandparent and its a life saver. Easy to use/ understand and they absolutely love the colour. Great battery life" Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the cellular phone. Some mention that it works well, has great functions, and serves its purpose. However, others say that it does not function properly, making it very hard to make the phone function. Some customers also mention that buttons 3, 6, and 9 do not work, and the d-pad never seems to work first time.
"...The Nokia 105 is sleek, but sturdy and does the basics really well...." Read more
"The central navigation button (left,right,up, down) doesn't work well & often takes several attempts to get to the menu you're after.Annoying...." Read more
"The charger not good, it exploded. Phone is fine, battery is good," Read more
"...phone.as soon as it arrived the screen was damaged and you couldn't use the phone.trying to get help from nokia support was literally like pulling..." Read more
Customers have mixed opinions about the value of the cellular phone. Some say it's well worth the £14 they paid, while others say it has some rubbish games and is very basic.
"...Nice and compact phone and well worth the £14 I paid. Comes boxed with a charger and battery...." Read more
"...The menu is very easy to navigate and there is one free game (Snake), a radio and a torch...." Read more
"...It also has an alarm clock, a calendar of sorts, an FM radio, and some rubbish games. No data, no apps. Perfect for a digital detox...." Read more
"...] Great phone, fast delivery and value for money." Read more
Customers are mixed about the battery life of the cellular phone. Some mention that it lasts several days, while others say that it only lasts one day.
"...I like these phones because the battery lasts a long time and they are quick and easy to use...." Read more
"Simple and easy to use, battery life that goes on forever" Read more
"The charger not good, it exploded. Phone is fine, battery is good," Read more
"...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)...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the weight of the cellular phone. Some mention it's a compact phone that fits in a normal pocket. They say it'll fit the bill perfectly as a smart phone. However, some customers say it is oversensitive, flimsy, and small. They also say the display is very small and the charger is too small for UK sockets.
"...Nice and compact phone and well worth the £14 I paid. Comes boxed with a charger and battery...." Read more
"...Much more compact than a smart phone." Read more
"...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..." Read more
"...be wondering if you can play your Spotify on this!Just a funky, Punky tiny phone...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the sound quality of the cellular phone. Some mention that the ring tone is quite loud, the battery life pretty good, and the call quality is very clear. However, others say that the sound is not loud enough, the alarm isn't loud enough and the speaker quality is awful.
"...to charge for the first time and after around 10 minutes there was a loud pop and a piece of plastic flew across the room...." Read more
"...Made a few calls and it sounds very clear. Perfect combined with an unlimited talk and text for £4 a month. Very happy with it." Read more
"call speaker quality is awful but the phone is overall a standard cheap burner , nice when you want a break from modern smartphones , the phone is..." Read more
"...into antiques!And of course charge lasts forever and it has a really loud ring.The phone is really hot pink,and really HOT pink...." Read more
Customers find the buttons on the cellular phone to be a little fiddly, sensitive, and hard to use. They also say the navigation button is a bit fidgly and sensitive, the center button is nightmare, and the scroll button is imprecise. Some customers also mention that the center control button is too sensitive and jumps from one icon to another.
"...Firstly, the small menu button is quite fiddly and sensitive, which might be problematic for those with large fingers or shaky hands...." Read more
"...It's a bit too easy to select the wrong thing, the scroll buttons are very close to the confirm." Read more
"...phone is no good for people with large hands , the center up down left right button is awful , because the OK key is in the middle you tend to press..." Read more
"Does what it's supposed to, navigation button dodgy." Read more
The phone works fine, exactly what I expected when I chose this model. I plugged the phone in to charge for the first time and after around 10 minutes there was a loud pop and a piece of plastic flew across the room. When I eventually plucked up the courage to unplug it and have a look at it there was a burnt out smell inside of the plug. I can't find a way to contact the seller through the order details and don't want to return the phone itself as there is no issue with the phone, just the charger. I've put 4 stars as the phone does what I wanted it to and works fine. I havent tried a different charger in it yet so I'm hoping there wont be any problems with that.
Bought this because I got fed up having to carry around my smartphone all the time. Nice and compact phone and well worth the £14 I paid. Comes boxed with a charger and battery. I like these phones because the battery lasts a long time and they are quick and easy to use. It was a bit fiddly getting the back off to put the SIM card in, you need a flat knife to prise it off - it's that tight.. but once it's in the back snaps back in with no chance of it coming apart if you drop it. Made a few calls and it sounds very clear. Perfect combined with an unlimited talk and text for £4 a month. Very happy with 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.
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.
The central navigation button (left,right,up, down) doesn't work well & often takes several attempts to get to the menu you're after. Annoying. I wouldn't buy this model again. Not recommended.
Met dit toestel moet ge niet bang zijn dat ge per ongeluk op de zijtoetsen drukt tijdens het bellen, want die zijtoetsen heeft hij niet!Ook geen alarm toetsen die per ongeluk ingedrukt worden of een radio die plots begint te spelen tijdens je gesprek! Een verademing : een draagbare telefoon om mee te telefoneren!!
Ik vond het waanzinnig leuk dat ze op Amazon deze gsm in kersenrood verkochten en nergens elders. Ik kreeg hem, stopte mijn SIM-kaart erin en stootte van de ene technische fout op de andere. De gsm kon zelfs geen nummers uit het telefoonboek kiezen. Ik dacht dat het alleen bij deze gsm zo was, dus ik kocht eenzelfde tweede item. Juist dezelfde fouten. Jammer...