best pay as you go deal

[reallytired]

I want a phone with a good battery life. I hardly use my phone, but I need something for emergencies. I want a pay as you go with where the voucher doesn't expire after a month. My husband has a virgin media phone and my old phone was a nokia phone which I loved.

What do you think is the best phone for me?

[usualsuspect]

I'm on O2 payg ,the top up doesn't expire after a month ,you just top up again when your credit runs out

[niceguy2]

If you just want a phone which makes/receives calls for emergencies and battery life is your priority then I'd suggest something like this:

Orange Nokia C1-01

The reason for recommending this one is that it's pretty small, so easily fit into a pocket/bag. Having just basic functionality means there's nothing else sucking battery life and it's cheap as chips.

Being on Orange means it will also be able to share T-Mobile masts so you maximise your coverage options.

So basically it will cost you a tenner for the phone, a tenner for credit and that will last forever until you've used it, so long as you make at least one call every six months.

Hope that helps

[niceguy2]

Oh forgot to mention I bought the above for my DS who was 9 at the time. Battery lasted days between charges. Easily 5 days. It even survived him being thrown into a pool whilst it was in his pocket.

In the end he lost it way before the credit ran out. Since it was only a tenner, I wasn't too fussed.

[reallytired]

Thank you niceguy. It looks like the future is orange!