Folk just loved polishing up those radiograms.
The auld fella used to come home from the boozer just after 2pm on a Sunday and stick his Eddie Cochrane albums on .

happy times

brain transplant imo

I believe it is the very basic type of mobile phone which has been superseded a few times.
I'm glad I revived a happy memory for you leif.
Music is amazingly powerful stuff isn't it.
Boring, long, little to do Sundays, before 7 day everything changed the day forever, and waiting for 6pm and "Greetings pop-pickers"!
Certain records transport you right back and we're all together again!  Happy days indeed.

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stewy you can get a brand new phone under a contract from as little as £19 a mth wiv sky - Apple phones from £21 shirley its a no brainer



How's it going Paul? Why would I pay £21 a month when BT only charge me £5.70p for unlimited calls and texts? I don't use data and just want a clear reception. Perhaps the G I mention (2 in my case) is confusing but if one goes into the Argos site they are still selling plenty 2g  sim free phones for sale hence my decision to buy a 4G. I then put my old sim card in and should be good to go.

OK, I will bite, since noone has answered the OP's question, the short answer is No, the 2G signal is much stronger and  robust than 3G.

Longer answer is it appears you have two phones, your first one tesco is locked to the 02 network,(not the provider) so you could get a sim only on 02 if you can remember that far back and how was signal?

Your bt mobile phone of unknown make is on EE and if in settings your preferred signal is on auto it may be constantly looking for a 3G signal,it may be trying to give you the dreaded EE  2.5G, edge, which I have seen on many low price piggybackers given by EE, its not very good.

You say your wife,uses 3G, what network is that and is signal OK?

Finally,if you want to remain in control, ie know your texts are being sent as a MSM via GSM network  and not via an app  you never knew you had and you want your calls to be a call over the GSM network not via the tinternet , stick to 2G it will be around for a long time yet. Its a far better signal than 3G, in your case select 2G only on your bean tin manually and you should be good to go.


Finally, just seen a message from 02 informing of the annual crawler  increase of 3.49% + cpi increase of 10.4 % = near 14% , thar aving a laugh.

Thanks for the reply breadnbutter. As God is my witness this is no wind up. I never waste people's time. I think my phone is a Nokia 301.




Your bt mobile phone of unknown make is on EE and if in settings your preferred signal is on auto it may be constantly looking for a 3G signal,it may be trying to give you the dreaded EE  2.5G, edge, which I have seen on many low price piggybackers given by EE, its not very good.

You say your wife,uses 3G, what network is that and is signal OK?



The part I have highlighted is true as far as I can remember. miss stew has a alcatel pop smartphone which is 3g. She is on the same network as myself and has no problems and the only other thing I can add is that she does use the odd data. The Bt guy told me if I got a 4g phone he would speak me through it as how to connect to the internet which he says would give me a better signal. I should add my new phone wont be a smartphone as it's too fiddly for me.

Anyways, I'm off out and will look in later.

Who could blame you mitolo?  Amazing how many slaves I see walking their phone while a dog follows on a lead.

Phone 108108 they answer any requested questions.

famous five

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why the need for duel sim cards?


drug dealers fones ydc..



ffs steve, you cannot be serious? You know I'm techy clueless. Give me some more info please.

If what you say is true would the police etc not get a tad suspicious? If I'm caught in the net....well done.

And drug dealers are not nefarious? Anyways I'll take your word. That aside, being not too bad techy apparently I have to put in the namo sim.


I'm wise enough to know there are three sims in the one sim so does that mean I put in the middle one?

standard-micro-nano

depends what size slot yours is.

My wife had the old Nokia type and was insistent she didn't need anything more. When her phone died, I give her my old Smartphone just to get by until she could find a simple phone. What a mistaker to make. She must be on her third smartphone by now.

I remember having a conversation with stewarty years ago about Internet banking. I told him about how easy it is to use and its the future. He said there was one thing that was bothering him though. I asked what was that? After a long pause he replied " how do you get money out the PC ????

Ive got a very basic Nokia. Only need it really for emergencies, like when being in hospital. Just for texts.
Dont need any smart arse mobile. Dont know how many sims its got.
Dont really care.

Dont pay any monthly fees. Dont play with it all day like every one else.

Buy the phone then get a deal…..make sure you own the thing outright…..

Am same Stewarty , now have Iphone SE2020 and pay £10monthly with EE . Unless I am on my broadband in the house , the mobile mast reception in my area is absolutely garbage . I lost it the other day and went on laptop indoors to use locator , that worked fine but because it was under car in drive (haha ) and cudnt get signal it wouldnt ring until about the 20th attempt !That said I love the phone and virtually anywhere else its great , am off out pm and will be stopping en route to watch first at Newbury .