UPDATE: In the event we went for a batch of factory refurbished unlocked Alcatel Phones that we got through Tesco EBay. These phones have 5" screens and come with Android 6.n pre-installed. The price for one was £45, but they offered a 10% discount for an order of 2 or more, so our 12 phones cost a total of £486. They have now been in use at Mountnessing for 6 weeks and they have gone down VERY well with the members. They are vastly better than the cheap Chinese 7" tablets that we had been using, originally purchased by the club when we went live with The Jannersten system - which we have all now long since forgotten all about! Compared with the Tablets, they take up a smaller foot-print on the table, are vastly more responsive, and take up a lot less physical space - for carrying, storage, etc. But above all, whereas some of the tablets were struggling to survive a single session on a single charge, the phones are lasting 3 sessions per charge easily, and, at a pinch they would probably do 4 sessions. That battery performance has been achieved by setting the display to 'never' sleep, rather than an irritating '1 minute' that the Tablets had to be set to to get them to last a whole evening.
These particular phones may now be sold out, but in case not, they are Alcatel-POP-4-Smart-Phone-Slate-Grey-8GB-5-HD-Android-6-0-Unlocked-Sim-Free
