Top 5 SIM-Free budget smartphone deals
In the current market of smartphones, 24-month contracts and free minutes, it’s easy to get yourself tied down to a mobile phone, even if you don’t use one very often. Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best budget SIM free handsets, so that you can enjoy the all of the perks that mobile technology has to offer at your budget, without the worry of a lengthy contract.
The LG KS360 is a great little smartphone, with the added bonus of a full, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and considering it’s available from £71.94, that’s quite an attractive feature. It also boasts touchscreen dialling, a 2.4-inch screen, memory that’s expandable up to 4GB, a 2-megapixel camera, plus Office document viewer, photo/video editor, 3D image gallery, voice memo and predictive text input, all for well under £100!
The Samsung Monte Slider E2550 was released in July 2010, and priced at around £69.99 is a fantastic entry-level device. It features a 1.3-megapixel camera, which should be enough for the occasional snapshot, a MicroSD slot, which takes up to 8GB cards, but the really great feature is the social network integration, which offers live updates from Facebook, Twitter and all of the other favourites, which will keep you well connected while you're out and about.
If you're a music lover on a budget fear not! You’d be hard pushed to find a better phone than the Nokia 5030 XpressRadio, and at prices from £35.00, you won’t have to dig too deep to afford one. Aside from the bomb-proof Nokia build quality, you're treated to dedicated media controls, which will allow you to enjoy your music without the hassle of ploughing through on-screen menus to get you where you want to go.
The Nokia C3 is a real gem of a phone and has had some fantastic reviews since its release in June 2010, and rightly so. Available from £101.99, the C3 offers a responsive hardware QWERTY messenger-style keyboard, which is ideal if you use your phone to type lengthy texts or emails, plus Wi-Fi, a 3-megapixel camera, Opera browser with Flash Lite and social network integration. If this wasn’t enough to whet your appetite, it comes in a range of colours and you get the ever reliable Nokia build quality for your moderate investment.
Samsung's Tocco Lite S5230 was released in May 2010 and is a purely touchscreen device, sporting a 3-inch TFT resistive touchscreen with handwriting recognition. The memory is expandable up to 16GB, and with its built-in Digital Natural Sound Engine, this is a great phone for music lovers who like to take their tunes with them wherever they go. The phone also features a 3.15-megapixel camera, with smile detection, and comes in three attractive colours. With prices starting from £92.98, you can’t really go wrong with this device.
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