IT Work - Making Choices

Task -

Your grandmother wants a mobile phone. She does not have a price limit as such but wants to spend as little as possible.
Investigate the phones available and suggest one for her. Evaluate very carefully why she should buy the one you suggest. State any assumptions you make very clearly.

Phone 1: LG KG130 Black

The LG KG130 boasts a vibrant colour screen, an easy to use interface, intuitive, well placed buttons, a VGA camera and an uncompromising design. With features like theses the KG130 is a no nonsense, compact fashion handset.

Price - £9.95 + £10.00 for simcard with £10.00 credit
Total - £19.95

Vibration Alert - No
Address Book Memory - 1000 entries
Address book memory (size) - 2 Mb
Display Colour Depth - 65K colours
Display Size - 128x128 pixels
Frequency bands - Daul Band
MMS - Yes
Size - 103.4x44.1x18.4 millimeters
SMS - Yes
Standby Time (Up to) - 200:00 hours
Talk Time (Up to) - 180 minutes
Weight - 75 grams
Works in USA - No

I would buy this one for you because it does everything a mobile phone really needs to do. It can text or SMS which means you can type short messages to people with it. You can also phone people anywhere in the world apart from America and Canada, but then over in different countries it costs a lot more to text or phone people, same as outgoing calls and texts.

You will probably not want to use the camera to send picture messages because they are extremely expensive.

I have used a Pay-as-you-go sim card, this will allow you to pay as much as you like in credit and then you will be able to use up that credit but you will also own the phone yourself.

This would be your best choice because it is cheap and you can easily use it to contact people. You do not need any of the flashy stuff that can be brought with phones such as the camera and internet but you do have a camera just in case. You will be able to see all the buttons and with a long stand by lifetime you will be able to leave it on in your pocket for a long time so you don't have to keep remembering that you need to charge it every 5 minutes.

After a little while you will get used to the phone, really it will be like a normal phone where you type in all the numbers manually but you will start using the address book where you will be able to quickly find people and call them.