Nkrs After two months of having an ordinary dumb phone, I often forget that I have a cellphone at all. I listen music on it (for about 6 hours daily when it's a working day and I'm not at home), make calls and send texts, and even take a picture occasionally. The battery needs to be charged once every 11 or 12 days, which is significantly longer compared to the old phone which had to be charged once (or even twice) per day.

😀 Tom Every now and then, the idea of having a "dumb phone" tempts me. The battery life and fragility of a smartphone does bother me. I'm considering getting a Caterpillar S60 when it comes out to address the latter concern though.

Nkrs That looks like a solid phone. When my old phone died, I already had a picture of what kind of phone I'd get as a replacement. Of course, it's easy to go out and invest 400EUR in a top-of-the-line smartphone, but having an upper limit of 100EUR meant that I could only get a dumb phone, or a very cheap and probably outdated smartphone (like those Samsung Galaxy models which still run on Android 2.3 or 4.0, or other phones from the "no name" end of the Android spectrum). Having burned my fingers with the previous phone, it was a no-brainer to go safe with Nokia 230, and it was one of the better decisions this year.

🏒 Lucian Marin I just got my father a black Nokia 230 while my mother has an yellow Nokia 225. They are good, basic, trustworthy phones.

Nkrs Agreed. My friends from university panic when their battery shows two bars, but for me and my phone this means "about 5 more days until recharging". This is the kind of dependable device that I am looking for--that I don't need to worry about recharging the battery every day and yet I am able to communicate with everyone I need to and listen to music and do all sorts of stuff at any time.