Emporia Telme MD212 - Mobile Phone, Black

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Our mobile phone has become an essential tool in our daily life, but it inevitably comes a day when a problem occurs unexpectedly.

An important feature of mobile phones for many people is being easy to use. The worst phones we've tested are completely unintuitive, making it a mission to do basic tasks. We rigorously test ease of use for both simple mobile phones and smartphones, but in different ways. Austrian company Emporia has been around since the early 1990s but has only recently made its products available in the UK. Its main aim is to provide phones for older tech users who want to remain independent and adept at mobile technology as it continues to develop. What you look for in a simple phone is very different to a smartphone, particularly as simple phones are typically geared towards older phone users and those who need a cheap emergency handset. Emporia has come on strong with a number of models available in the UK but the four main products are the Emporia ACTIVE, ACTIVEglam, TOUCHsmart and SMART.3mini. We go spec-for-spec on this range of phones below.No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information. The listed offers do not constitute legally binding advertising claims of the merchants. When it comes to general use, we test several features including how intuitive a phone's operating system is when you're navigating around the phone, particularly as most brands overlay systems like Android with a customised 'skin' for their phones. Items that are excluded from the right to cancel/return include the following: goods made to specification or otherwise personalized; unsealed optical media (such as DVD’s, CD’s, Blu-rays, video games and computer software); leisure services or other activities in the form of vouchers that have expired; and (d) used hard drives. You may cancel the contract & return the item at any time but no later than 7 working days after the day you received the product. Our trained ergonomic assessors test everything from how easy the phone is to set up to how well-spaced the keys are on the phone to make sure you're not getting a phone with a cramped keyboard that's hard to type on.

The legacy of simple mobile phones has long been dominated by the big players, Doro and Nokia. But Emporia is taking aim at the UK market, with 4G simple phones that focus on being easy to use. For that reason, the brand is heavily geared towards making products that are easy to use, by introducing features such as buttons to easily access apps and making simplified smartphones so that older-but-tech-savvy mobile phone users don't feel left behind by the new and feature-heavy Samsung and Apple phones. We even dig into the nitty-gritty, to gauge how useful the instruction manual is, and how well the applications on the phone work to see whether the phone is fiddly to use once it's set up. Want to buy a simple phone but not sure what to look for? Read our guide on how to buy the best simple mobile phone. Who is Emporia?Built-in multiple protections, this mains Fast Charger provides all-round protection during charging for you and your devices. Gone are the days when simple mobile phones were just compact emergency phones with basic 2G connectivity. These swanky new models come with features like dedicated buttons to access WhatsApp, an IP rating for waterproofing, and 4G connectivity. Our guide on how we test smartphones gives you more information on our testing. How we test for ease of use in simple mobile phones High-Speed Charging - This mains charger delivers full-speed charging to virtually any compatible device.

Emporia has launched four new devices, one of which is a hybrid simple phone and smartphone. We've taken a look at what each of them has to offer.