Thanks Dave
I'm thinking about your option of " What about a cheapo for your
camping trips and the iphone for the other times? I used a samsung
freebie for a while (waiting for my iphone!)". I won a Samsung prepaid
cheapie in a Mysouthwest comp 18 months ago and it still works Ok.
I'll look into the Nokia N85 and the E71. Have you any info on the
Nokia 6700 Slide http://www.nokia.com.au/find-products/all-phones/nokia-6700-slide
. It looks great but there's nobody on Oz sites that I can find yet,
selling them.
Reg
On 11/01/2010, at 10:25 PM, choy wrote:
On 11/01/2010, at 9:51 PM, Reg Whitely wrote:
Can you borrow a friends iPhone for a "weekend" to test the
"range"? I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the coverage
and the iPhone 3GS has even better reception than the 3G.
I admit I've never tried the iPhone in Gero but all reports suggest
it won't work over the extended travel distances we endure here in
WA. We need a phone that will work from Geraldton to Perth,
Bunbury, Albany and elsewhere for our camping, wherever there is
Telstra mobile range. They provide the best mobile coverage and
charge the most.
I must say that during my 6 months at Bunbury regional hospital,
travelling to margaret river, and regional areas for surgical days
as well as Albany my coverage has been fine with telstra, (with
vodafone it was limited to town centers only). What about a cheapo
for your camping trips and the iphone for the other times? I used a
samsung freebie for a while (waiting for my iphone!)
Sounds Ok if it is in range. There's a Macca's in Geraldton and
quite a few in Perth. So what? We don't go there. The Tomtom does
GPS very well. Is the iPhone satellite enabled or is it reliant on
mobile phone triangulation? If it is restricted to that, that's not
an option.
It has GPS and its own maps, admittedly the triangulation is not as
good as your TomTom (it's aGPS), but then again this doesn't really
matter since you have a tomtom for your needs. If you want to use it
and dump the tomtom, you will need the tomtom for iphone cradle
which adds an extra GPS chip to improve triangulation.
What is the best iPhone deal available at the moment for users in
rural (Western Australian) areas? I suspect that Victorian services
are more compact and that you may not appreciate the distances we
have to travel; that perhaps Telstra gives almost 100% coverage of
Victoria, compared to Western Australia.
IMO all the phones you have asked about are good for phone calls
only, they aren't expandable and their built-in features are average
at best. If I had to buy another phone because of coverage issues
I'd use it for just that and have an iphone or ipod touch for
everything else. Of the two phones that you've chosen I'd go for the
Nokia 6720, but I wouldn't rely on the salling software too much as
I've had issues with it before (ie contacts wiped etc).
I don't know how heavily you need to rely on the blue-tick program -
my friend is a communications engineer with telstra, he tells me
that other mobiles meet rural requirements, they just haven't been
"certified" with the program. The other good phones with good
reception (and play nicer with macs!) are the Nokia N85 and the E71.
I can personally vouch for the E71 (my wife has one), others have
said good things reception wise with the n85 and both of them are
actually usable for PIM stuff.
I coudn't find the n85 (next g version) on telstra's website, but
that's not surprising as they never have the full range online.
Here's a link to the phone:
http://www.smoothmobiles.com.au/nokia-n85-3-p/nok-n85-3.htm
If you get that or the E71 they work with nokia's plugin or you can
get the missing sync, which I have used for the last 5 years and
trust to sync my info.
http://www.markspace.com/products/symbian/ms-overview-mac.php?source=picker_symbian
Good luck, let us know if you are recommended any other phones.
Dave
See here:
http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile/networks/coverage/index.html
Regards
Reg
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>
Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>
Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>
Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>
Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --
Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>
Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>
Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
