Hi everyone, I was looking to buy a cheap phone that will probably double as an alarm clock, but be use primarily for finding my every day phone when I misplace it!
I was thinking along the Nokia Lumia series as they're often on special from Woolies but other considerations well appreciated :)
what do you mean by 'plus warranty' it doesnt actually extend your first phone's warranty, does it?
No, you have a spare phone, aka. Self supplied warranty.
Ah ok.. thanks for clarifying
Not being rude but there is a huge elephant in the room. How often do you lose your phone? It is because of visibility, or the dog/kids hide it, 50 first dates or dementia? That is pretty serious if you need to buy a phone specifically to find another phone?
I admit, it's not often but when I do it's extremely time consuming to try and find it (no access to any other phones/landlines).
basically you just want the portable equivalent of a home-phone.
I have an old Nokia 6288 that I use as a ersatz 'landline' phone, it's permanently attached to the charger and it's got a 365-day Aldi SIM in it, which I use to mainly receive calls at home.
So what makes you think you'll be able to find the "backup" phone after losing the phone you use everyday?
the iphones are great for this. log on a computer and sign in icloud 'find my phone' and set it to ring. I just do that now whenever i cant remember where i placed my phone somewhere in the house :)
Android has this feature for ages as well. It's not an iPhone only feature.
Just type Find my phone in a Google search and it will find it. ( be logged into google of course).
Nokia Lumia's are pretty cool. On the Android side, as long as you don't use a heap of apps a Moto-E is pretty good. Dual sim, 4g and fairly good battery. I use my old one to take overseas using a local sim for data only (maps, email, skype etc). Cons: small screen and storage.
if you have an android phone you can use android device manager on it (under device administrator) of your phone, then you can hit up https://www.google.com.au/android/devicemanager?u=0 to ring it online or lock and locate if it gets lost.
Didn't know that, and have heaps of Android devices.
Thanks heaps!
Just type" find my phone" into google search on a computer of other phone you are logged into.
As mentioned, there are web based options to find the phone.
Any modern smart phone will have very, very long battery life if you switch it to airplane mode and just turn on the wireless functions when needed.
Even my old iphone 4s lasts 4 or 5 days like this.
Given your requirements, I would probably get whatever cheap ZTE is available at the supermarket (e.g Optus Zip or Telstra 4Gx) and get it unlocked.
Then you'll need a backup backup phone in case you misplace your backup phone as well :p
It's frustrating when you've misplaced your phone but you've set the phone on silent with all data access turned off to save battery.
Buys a 2g phone and sticks a telstra sim in.
Joke
Telstra cruise, free 5 gig net and only $9 buy 2 and have a spare battery plus warranty.