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On 22/03/2021 13:17, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> If you don't want to spend quite that much money, I'm a fan of |
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> Lenonovo Moto "G" series phones. You get a lot of phone for your money |
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> and very little "bloat". A few of the models used to be available as |
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> pure vanilla android, but I don't know if any of the current models |
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> are. |
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Agreed. I had a G5 (all the reviews said it was the lemon between the G4 |
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and the G6, but I liked it). It's now been replaced by a G8. The main |
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thing I don't like is the stock android! It's changed between the 5 and |
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8 - from Android 8.1 to 10. And afaik they're all close to stock. |
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The other thing is to look at your contract - I pay £5/month for |
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unlimited minutes and texts, and 2GB data. |
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I don't know whether the wi-fi would be a good deal - my experience of |
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free wi-fi is it assumes you're using a browser, so if you're using a |
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mail client or whatever things tend to break ... And it's filtered, so a |
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lot of sites I do (or did) visit get blocked ... Make sure the wifi is |
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pure access without any of that sort of crap. |
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The phone itself should allow tethering no problem - that's what we use |
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when we go away. And if tethering works and you get an unlimited data |
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contract, then you've got all you need (that sort of contract is about |
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£30, iirc). |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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