Whats the best Senior Mobile for a man whos 10 year old Nokia 3310 has finally died ?

Hi,

The short version of the story is, whats the best Senior Phone on the market that is Pay As You Go and either on Vodafone or SIM free ?.

The long, funny version is as follows,

Myself, my brother and my sister all bought Nokia 3310's back in 2002, they were great phones at the time but we eventually moved onto phones with newer and cooler features like ... colour screens ... and eventually ... cameras! . We had been nagging my dad for years to get a mobile phone but he was/is a complete technophobe, and held out until it got to the stage were like most people, he had to get one for day to day stuff like everyone else.

Rather then buying him a new phone, I decided to upgrade to a 3510 and give him my old 3310. It took him years of frustration to finally learn to make calls and send texts, but he eventually got there, although even to this day he has trouble doing other things (like adding contacts so we still occasionally have to help him). After a couple of years the 3310 I gave him packed in, I had upgraded my phone again and gave him my 3510 thinking he would be able to use it because they were similar. Unfortunately, even the small changes in the layout drove him up completely mad, so much so that my mother asked my brother and sister for their old 3310's saying "would you ever give your father yer old phones ?, its the only one he knows how to use, he's about to fire that one your brother gave him at the wall" :pac: .

3 Nokia 3310's and 10 years later, my 74 year old fathers last Nokia 3310 is on life support. The phone can only send texts, it loses its charge after 30 seconds of talking, randomly turns itself off and is held together with tape. We have tried replacing the battery with a used but working official battery we bought off Ebay and a new unofficial battery as well, but it doesn't seem to work, so the fault seems to be with the phone.

I appreciate your advise :-)