JCB Tradesman 3 4G and WiFi Rugged Feature Phone Waterproof With Whatsapp, Hotspot, Dual-Sim and Bluetooth - Black

Great simple but quality phone which is built like a brick. With all the basic and necessary features. Great value for money. Very fast speed for little phone. Very impressive feel to the phone. It has WhatsApp which was important to me. Unfortunately the only downside is it has no navigation application, which was important to me.

No, I bought this phone for my husband because it was tough enough for on a farm. It is not easy to use my husband can’t work it !! There is a very small info on how phone works totally useless and so went on website for more info but just the same. The phone is very disappointing and really want to return !!! £100.00 is a lot of money for a phone that doesn’t do the job!! No proper instruction manual to follow - just a little card with pictures!!

What a great product. My husband has been working outside and at heights so I bought this to save his smartphone and a good job too. He managed to drop it multiple times off the ladders and scaffolding and it didn’t flinch. He’s been up there in real downpours and the waterproofing has been tested fully along with his waterproof radio which he connected to the phones Wi-Fi hotspot to listen to his tunes. It’s even got WhatsApp so he could stay in touch and share some of the work he was doing on a video call. Easy to use, buttons big enough to use when wearing glove’s with an amazing battery life. What else can you want from a button phone? Brilliant

I really wouldn’t recommend this item. I bought this as I didn’t want to have a smart phone anymore but still having WhatsApp would be useful for work purposes. It is really slow and frustrating to text on as you have to pause between typing each letter and sometimes the keys do not respond at all, also there is a slow delay on nearly everything, especially WhatsApp, even tasks like trying to call someone is somehow difficult to navigate and often unresponsive. I am switching back to a £15 Nokia instead as this is so much easier to do simple tasks like texting and calling. Avoid this phone you will 100% be very disappointed.

Due to many criminal activities being perpetuated using the cell phones is a main reason why I do not want to have a modern touch screen phone. Also I don't want the Google or other tech companies keeping its hooks on me. I saw what a pain in the ass life it cause my colleague, who, an iPhone user faced when he crossed several countries in 24 hours - from US to England, then up to Scotland, then to Shetlands. Apple thought criminals got hold of his phone whereas it was just our working life in oil exploration - travel a lot alot. He had to jum through hoops to get everything unlocked but of course he couldn't do it with his iPhone. He had to use landline or sat phone to get hold of which people at Apple in US to unlock. NO THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I STICK TO USING STUPID DUMP PHONE that I could Really Rely on in an Emergency not matter where in the world. For many years I kept using Nokia E72 from 2009 until 3G signals were turned off. I hunted for a non-Apple OS or non-Android operating system phone to no avail. Many which are not using these operating systems do not have 2-5 mega pixels camera for taking documentary photographic stills when I do accident investigations to put into reports for emailing to clients. Ones that do but do not have Hot Spot facility. This older version of Tradesman (3) and there is at least a Tradesman 4 at the time of review has almost met all my specifications except a low capacity memroy card and that the keyboard is not QWERTY but at least it is a physical keyboard. I do phone calls and text SMS messages on cell phones; everything else is done on Widows laptop which is why I needed the older 3 model for its Hot Spot because the 4 model doesn't have it. It is either that or some other function I needed to run my consultancy business that 4 doesn't have but 3 does. So if you conclude tha tI don't like this phone, well you are right, I don't. But there is no modern day Nokia E72 suited to 4G signal let alone 5G so I only chose this JCB because there is no better cell phone to suit my needs. Having got used to Nokia's Symbian operating system then from 2018 Samsung rendition of Android, I find this JCB operating system positively clunky. Several time I have has to look up the internet manual to find out how to activate / deactive certain functions. One function I really like to uninstall is WhatsApp but so far not found anything on uninstalling in the manual. Guess what ? Of course, battery life is a good number of days as I only make calls and text but so far not worked out how to set up hot spot yet so it (battery) may still turn out to be insufficient once the phoned is hooked up to the laptop. So temporarily giving it a score of 4 stars.

What a great little phone! It worked right out of the box. It's perfect for an easy to carry and quick to use communication device. It even has WhatsApp so I can stay connected when I need. The screen is better than I would have expected and the front and rear camera also work well! Would highly recommend for anyone looking for a simple feature phone!

Very poor quality hardware, feels very cheap, charging port cover fell off after 1 use, only mini USB port not USB C. Software is unusable unless you want to only dial manually. Whatsapp app is unusable too. Do NOT buy this rubbish handset.

Excellent quality product for the price, predictive text is a pain but I can live with that

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My grandfather likes this phone since his old one broke

Batería🔋 duro medio día, whatsapp enviar mensajes de voz sin posibilidad, no hay mp3

Ce téléphone ne conviendra pas à tout le monde ! Il est très solide, un bon feeling de qualité, mais trop cher pour ce qu'il offre (80 euro serait un prix plus juste) Il me fallait Whatsapp, très bien pour lire, mais vraiment pas top pour écrire (5 à 10 fois plus de temps qu'avec un smartphone avec un clavier complet) et totalement inadapté pour partager des photos (à ce niveau de lenteur de chargement du fichier, il est probablement plus rapide transmettre la photo par La Poste... J'ai abandonné après 1 heure de chargement infructueux...). Autre point négatif, les podcasts cherchés (et là encore, saleté de clavier à l'ancienne...) ne sont pas lus, il faut les mettre dans le fichier en passant par un ordinateur. La radio ne fonctionne qu'en branchant des écouteurs filaires (qui servent d'antenne), ce n'est pas le plus pratique... La batterie est décevante, 2 jours en utilisation modérée, c'est bien loin de ce qui est annoncé ! Dernier point, pourquoi cet antique mini-USB qui charge à la vitesse d'un escargot estropié ?! Malgré tous ces points énervants au quotidien, je l'aime bien, il correspond à ma philosophie qui veut éviter la surconsommation d'app et l'utilisation effrénée d'internet, il est solide et sympa a avoir en main, mais les multiples vérifications pour les achats en lignes m'empêchent de me séparer d'une tablette un peu plus poussée...

Ein robustes Handy mit guter Haptik, aber die vorinstallierte WhatsApp APK ist unbrauchbar zum Schreiben. Sprachnachrichten gehen überhaupt nicht. Sonstige Android Apps wie E-Mail , oder Facebook Messenger sind aufgrund zu geringem Arbeitsspeichers nicht lauffähig. Telefonieren und SMS funktionieren, die Akkulaufzeit ist toll und auch der WLAN Hotspot funktioniert tadellos.