TCL 501 Unlocked Android Mobile Phone | 6" Display, 32GB Storage, 2GB RAM, 5MP Camera, 3000mAh Battery | Blue

Bargain phone does what you need it too.

Do not buy this phone- it's absolute rubbish! Can't run more than one app at a time without freezing and crashing. The UX crashes constantly, the battery life is horrible and it's constantly stops charging at random. Even at £50 this feels like a scam, you'd be better off with a 2010 Huawei than this piece of crap.

I needed a cheap device for travelling. It's good for that. But it is very slow - apps, screens take time to open.

Excellent phone.

It would not transfer all details from his Old iPhone I gave up. My son next day took 4 hrs to get it set up and he use to this kind of, I I use to Allple now. It just kept refusing constantly and took ages with google. It would not pair at all with iPhone or iPad. I did all phone contacts that was easy but can’t find away to add a photo of person as can with iPhone. That would even be better for my husband. I put photo transfer to the phone via email from mine, saved to Google photos. But not yet found how to see them. I can only think all my husband will manage is news read and phone calls. App I cons hard to understand, good size phone but bit disappointed re not easy to understand all.

brought this as a work phone 5 months ago because i'm sick of breaking expencive phones on the job. its held up well until now its a very tough and durable phone. the battery life is pretty terrible and its slow but it does everything you need from a phonestarted having an issue a few days ago. it displays a message saying has a verity curruption error and now the phone constantly restarts every time you use it for more then 5 mins making it nearly unusable.For people looking to buy a tcl 501 it is worth getting if you need a temporary budget phone but thats about all it is a cheap temp

I check my phone a handful of times a day and I have become fed up of the unnecessary additions to high-end phones. This phone has a good processor (MediaTek G36) and Android version 14 Go for all apps needed. The camera does not produce high quality image or video so avoid if this is necessary. A removable battery and a headphone jack are very nice features for a modern phone, you can easily replace the battery if there is a fault and are not forced to go wireless for audio use. The battery life is exceptional, the phone is operating off one charge since first boot (phone arrived with half charge so fully charge it before booting). Overall you will not find a better value phone for today's needs if you do not want to be glued to your phone.

Both of the ones I ordered with bricked in the same way - on attempting to do a first time set up, after copying data from the old phone and entering a pin number the quickstep app would crash, preventing access to any app or settings. There appears to be no way to do a factory reset.Google appears to have released an app that does not bother with the most basic of error reporting, and hence make something needlessly expensive to investigate and fix. TCL made quickstep the front-end, so together they made a useless product.Whether this behaviour occurs on other copies of this phone will probably depend on your setup options. I do not know what combination of options reproduces the errors, save those I use to set up both of mine. They have now both been returned and I will seek a refund.