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Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

I hear these work well:
CPR 1200 Number Capacity Nuisance Call Blocker - Grey:Amazon.co.uk:Electronics

A friend use to get these type of calls at all hours of the day, now she rarely gets any. The odd one still sneaks through though.

Devices like this rely on the scammer/marketer withholding their phone number. This means that the ones that show a number - and it's not necessarily a real one - will get through. Also, legitimate organisations with badly configured internal exchanges will be "caught" by this device. For example, I know the hospital comes through as "Number unavailable".

Originally Posted by Neil

...Some smaller basic Android phones even have batteries that last a couple of days....

My Galaxy S4 lasts three days. I only use it for calls and texts, emails, photos and a bit of internet browsing. I've got wifi turned off unless I do a dropbox upload and don't do facebook or twitter. Biggest battery drain on most phones is the screen.

Originally Posted by Less

...the only problem I used to have was filling in forms, they always insisted on a landline number, so I would put my old disconnected number in that slot...

I wish I'd thought of that!