Consulting the Oracle - mobile phones

[mingmerciless]

Bird entrails etc optional.

My mother's looking for a new phone. Her requirements are broadly as follows:

• Will be predominantly for basic talk and text
  
• She's keen on a touchscreen device
  
• Good UI - she's also been exclusively a Nokia user to date
  
• Not too complex - she views phones like my N97 or my sister's iPhone as over-sophisticated/complicated
  

Comments

[multiclassgeek]

Find a second-hand T-Mobile G1. Basic Android, decent screen, slide-out keyboard. An old Sidekick would probably work well, too.

The trouble these days is that everything ships with bolted-on IOdine (like HTC Sense) which just overcomplicates things.

[burntcopper]

n5800? fairly easy to use and one of the smaller touchscreens.

[mingmerciless]

Yeah, that one had occurred to me. I take it you're pretty happy with yours?

[cynicalcylon]

I liked mine, before I killed it, but I kill all tech after about a year.
Pretty simple interface, responsive touchscreen. Generally kinda easy to use, especially if already used to Nokias

[alexmc]

I have to ask who is doing her tech support,

... and what country does she live in?

[mingmerciless]

Tech support - that'd most likely be me. She's in Malaysia which can make the whole support issue tricky at times. She's also on a SIM only contract, if that makes a difference...

[katana137uk]

Sony have some nice looking non chunky phones. I was tempted by the Vivaz! Though the other Sony I could've had, the Xperia Mini seemed a bit too small!