Vodafone VFD200-WSPUK01 Smart First 7 with Vodafone Sim - Black

I have a work smart phone which I use for everything, (its free) but wanted a 2nd phone, just to pay my personal bills etc, so went for a cheap option, really surprised by the quality, bit small if you have eyesight issues, other than that great little starter phone for kids especially, or occasional use phone for elderly, (provided you can read normal stuff with glasses if required). Only down side is a bit slow/clunky with response speed, I am used to tapping fast, looks rugged and great VFM.

The media could not be loaded. I bought this in 2021 because I'm running some web sites, apparently the most common mobile screen resolution is 360x640 (I imagine a confused report of 720x1280 or 1080x1920 high dpi), and I figure if it works okay on this phone, it'll work on anything. I haven't bothered to put the SIM in, I'm only using it on wifi.It's awful. Marvellously so. It's exactly what I wanted in terms of "how badly could a device butcher my web site?" but I wouldn't wish it on anyone as a practical device.Operating system: It's Android, which is fine (my main phone is a Pixel). 5.1 (Lollipop), which is... quaint. After spending some time on updates, we got to a security patch date of 2018-03-05, which is not very reassuring when it comes to any modern attack vector on the internet. It has 4GB of internal storage, which is... not enough. I could have added an SD card, so that's a slightly unreasonable complaint, but 2GB of the storage went to the OS, and having updated the apps (except for ones I don't intend to use, and having attempted to uninstall the Vodafone adware) I had under 400MB left. Enough that I couldn't install Firefox (more on that in a sec), so I had to remove the updates to a few of the apps and take them back to factory versions.Performance: Oh. My. God. There's a Mali 400 in there, which is probably handling the scrolling, and to be fair, that's a little laggy (quite a way behind my finger), but reasonably responsive - or at least at a rate that could be considered smooth (if you don't get the CPU involved with a redraw). The web browsers are kind of okay once they get going; while they're starting up, there's a delay of more than twenty seconds before you can get a keyboard to appear to enter a URL. The settings app shows a blank screen for about ten seconds too. It's slow enough that you've often clicked somewhere else in the time it takes the phone to respond, which makes interaction painful. The web browsers will just about show inline video, although it can sometimes take a little while to get going, especially for HD clips; I've not tried anything longer than a few seconds. With more use (as more gets cached) it's getting a little more responsive, but still quite a lot of interactions involve poking the screen, then waiting (often several seconds) to see whether anything is going to happen. I wasn't expecting flagship performance, and it does basically work, but do expect some frustration while it tries to keep up; even the most responsive operations (say typing in an unlock code) have a clear half second lag that makes you second-guess yourself. I did remove the two Vodafone apps that were taking up the limited space on the home screen (and stop Chrome defaulting to a "spend money with Vodafone" home page), so I don't really know how much damage they'd do to performance if you tried using them.The screen... is glorious. Okay, as a capacitive touch screen it's responsive enough. There's no kind of oleophobic coating, so it's immediately covered in smears when you use it. I expected 320x480 to be bad, and it is - it's a fraction of the resolution of the Nexus One, and while there's some antialiasing available, Android isn't really set up for it; since the text is using so few pixels, everything is a bit blobby. Then there's the viewing angles. I don't know where they got this panel, but the last time I saw that behaviour it was on a 1990s digital camera. Side to side it's fine; look down at 45 degrees and the background goes black; look up at 45 degrees (say your phone is on a table) and everything fades to saturated.I would say that affects colour accuracy, but... wow, that appears to be a 4096-colour display. (I guess it *might* be 16-bit, but I wouldn't bet on it.) Chrome doesn't know how to handle it, so images and CSS gradients come out posterised; I was convinced I'd over-compressed some content for a while. Firefox, when I'd got it to install, seems to understand dithering, and does a slightly better job (although it's still not smooth) - it also seems a little faster, so I'd have to recommend it to anyone stuck with this phone even though I'm normally a Chrome person. I also saw some Chrome rendering bugs that I've never seen (and can't reproduce) elsewhere. Also while I was updating the phone complained that it was overheating and encouraged me to reduce the screen brightness, which is reassuring.Oh, and the screen is tiny (with huge bezels), but I knew that. The navigation buttons at least don't take up any space, but they're not very responsive, and they're not illuminated, so telling whether they're doing anything is a bit frustrating. I've used less responsive phones, but only ones which used Windows Mobile, and not in the last decade (and they still had more pixels).I can't vouch for the battery life, although I see it creeping down; I don't intend to put it through enough continuous use to cause a problem. It charges with a USB micro-B, so at least it's nothing proprietary. I've not tried the camera, beyond firing it up and seeing how low the frame rate is/how much smearing there is (it speeds up pointed at a bright screen, but my room isn't *that* dingy).So: There have to be better low-end devices on the market in 2021. If nothing else, a used version of whatever was on the market in 2015, probably. If you're buying new in the hope of at least getting a current OS, you won't. It's not anyone's definition of "simpler and easier to use", and you'll need to budget (a little) for an SD card to do anything useful with it. If you look at the specs and think "that's half the clock speed and half the RAM of a modern phone, it'll be half as good" - no, it's worse.Which is exactly what I wanted for "are there any problems with my web sites on really low-end devices?" - but not something you should inflict on yourself for other reasons.

I bought this phone as a temporary replacement whilst mine got fixed. I would not recommend it for anything other than that purpose.It is easy to use, but that is down to it using android operating system.There is hardly any internal storage space, so I would recommend using an SD card.It was also very slow with a lot of lag, but purhaps this was because I overloaded it with apps (just basic ones like Facebook lite and outlook for example).It did come with a sim card, but I just used my other one from the broken phone. It doesn't take a micro sim card, which my sim was, but I just used the little plastic adjuster things that came with this phones sim to solve that problem.Terrible battery life. Terrible speaker, could hardly hear what people were saying.However, it did serve its purpose, and for the price, it did everything I needed.

I bought this phone as a present for my granddaughter but decided to use it for a couple of weeks to see how good or bad it is. I was amazed by its versability and simplicity in its usage. It is good value for money and very good as a first phone or a backup phone. I am thinking of buying another one as my backup phone. In fact my teenage granddaughter is over the moon with it.

Had to replace same model from several years ago. Able to transfer sim card so same number and balance on PAYG. Has more apps than before so slowly working round them but seems fine so far. Only had for few days so far.

Does the job but frustrating how slowly it performs. I didn’t expect it to be fast but this is painfully slow.

I paid £65 for my recently deceased smartphone 3 years ago. I bought this as a replacement, thinking technology will have moved on sufficiently to provide a comparative performance. How wrong I was.The phone was locked via the network when I received it. After trawling through the vodafone website for quite a while I eventually located a customer service number. A lengthy spell on hold was the prelude to my being told they would not help and I should contact the vendor instead. The vendor was able to help me, so I proceeded to exploring my new phone.The storage capacity is listed as 32GB, which is ample for my needs. However, upon turning the phone on I was immediately greeted with a Storage Capacity warning. This was a taste of things to come. The phone is glacierly slow in operations, with even basic navigation having a longer delay than the automatic doors on a supermarket in a high crime area.I would advise anyone looking for a cheap phone to opt for an antique Nokia instead of this.

the phone was very good, but the sim card which came with the phone locked it and there was not a unlock number on the back of the card which is on most other sim cards. I contacted the the company i got it from and they emailed me back right away and sorted the problem out in no time. They where very helpful and couldn't do enough for me. I rate them 5 stars but would give 10 stars if i could, my daughter loves her phone now