Nokia105 Single SIM Mobile Phone (2017 Edition) - Black

Amazing quality. I've been using a smartphone for just over 10 years and decided to go back to these sort of phones. I put in my EE sim and it works very well, thank you! Sound quality is great too.

We bought this phone to receive calls for an electric gate. A little difficult to get the back off and put the tiny SIM card in but easy to put the back on thereafter. The phone buttons are small and easy to press the wrong thing but at its price it’s hard to grumble. Phone call quality is good. Interesting to be able to have dual SIMs but haven’t used that facility as it is only for the gate calls. The phone is plastic and the colour bright enough not to loose 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.Recommend to avoid!

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.P.S. This phone takes a full size sim card.

Great product.

I bought this for a "digital detox" as like many others I'm sick of how my smartphone seems to have invaded every minute of my life. So far it has performed its purpose but there's a few issues with it that make it difficult to use, although this could be a good thing if you're trying to keep off your phone!The good: it does nothing really except send and receive calls and text messages. There is a useful but not bright LED torch. 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. Call quality seems acceptable. Battery life is very good compared to modern smartphones - easily lasts several days between charges but it does take a hammering if you use it for long phone calls. The software or user interface is mostly ok and largely mimics the old Nokia phones in the way it operates so if you're of a certain age it may feel very familiar.The bad: the build quality is poor, it feels light and plasticy and nothing like how you will recall a proper Nokia handset from 10 or 20 years ago felt. The keypad is spongy and the 5-way menu key is really bad as it lacks any way to tell which of the 5 directions you are pressing it. The really big let-down is how bad it is to type on. The spongy keys are dreadful and the implementation of the T9 typing/dictionary is really half-baked - there is no automatic capitalisation and there is no facility to make it learn new words so typing is a tedious drag even if you used to be a T9 keyboard ninja like me.Overall, it's ok for my purposes. But some improvements to the build quality and software while keeping the same basic functionality (and not adding more things) would make this a really attractive phone.