4022S Unlocked Feature Phone | Compact Mobile Phone with 2.4" Display, 1900mAh Battery, SOS Button, Dual SIM | Black

For someone not wanting a smart phone this is perfect in every way. Simple to use and a long life battery so it doesn't need charging every two minutes.

We bought this 'phone to make 'phone calls when needed, without all the complications and costs of a smartphone. It does the job at a very economic price and has simple options such as starting up without passwords etc. It also has a simple 'SOS' function.

Got this for a friend as he did not want a smart phone

Would not power on returning for a refund

Good points first: as a cheap brick phone, it is light [circa 120g], easy to handle, has good buttons, clear bright screen, large text, intuitive navigation. Bad points: unbelievably for a modern 'dumb' phone, it has no predictive text option - despite the online manual saying it has! - and no facility for storing sent texts; so that's not very useful. It wouldn't have cost much to have that as a feature. You can't contact TCL, their phone number is not working and there's no email option. It may be cheap but I don't recommend this unless you only want the phone for calls, and don't mind letter-by-letter texting....it's going back for a refund.

I recently bought this phone from Tesco. The good news is that it's very simple to use and the battery life is excellent. The bad news is that the charging cradle didn't work and the instructions for it are really poor.

The phone has died after two months and very little use. Impossible to reach anyone for any assistance

I've always had basic mobile phones e.g JCB & Nokia "bricks" as I don't want a smartphone as I'm not interested in social media and am happy to access the internet on my laptop. However having recently lost my Nokia phone I had to get a replacement urgently. I was told this one was good and as it was cheap I took the plunge. However it is so disappointing. I was told it didn't have internet access but it has "data" settings so I presume it does but I haven't tried that option yet. However if like me you don't want internet access you need to undelete the "data connection" option as if you don't you'll be charged every time you turn on the phone!! It says it's "one touch" but that's debatable. It's reluctant to turn on (you need very precise fingerwork) and it's not very user friendly. Even doing the most simple processes are awkward and unneccesarily complicated . It also only saves received texts and not sent ones, although the on-line manual (which is also poor) suggests otherwise! For some reason, even when the screen is locked, it often turns the torch on and more annoyingly keeps dialling 999 which is embarrasing. The battery life for a basic phone is also very poor and you need to turn off "bluetooth" to get more than a couple of days use before re-charging. If you don't mind these endless niggles it's ok I suppose and very cheap of course but I really hope I find my old Nokia so I can replace it asap as it's very very annoying.....