mobile phone

Hi

We have used LG phones with the blue tick for several years now and found them to be ok. My wife still uses the old LG with antenna port.

I recently updated to a Telstra T96 which has the port for the external antenna and found it probably works a bit better than the old LG once the antenna is in. The antenna I bought from Telstra but Jacar probably have them cheaper.

The phone is not fancy but a good price from Big W, about $50.

Regards
Rowdy

G`day Kevin,

I highly recommend the Samsung C5220, it`s not a fancy smart phone but is very good.
I have it with Telstra on a " Mobile Accelerate Casual plan" $25.00 per month with $300.00 eligible usage and 200MB of data.
Scrubby.

Depends on where you want to use it Best phone I had in outback was an old Nokia6120

Hi Kevin,
I have a ZTE Tuff T54 blue tick phone. It is a bit agricultural compared to these modern things but it does have an antenna port on the back and 12 volt chargers are easy to get for them.

I use it with an ugly stick and it works even better therefore.

ZTE Tuff T54 Blue Tick mobile

It works in places where plenty won't, especially with the external antenna.

I use this antenna
Ugly Stick

With this Patch cord
ZTE T54 patch Cord

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Bruce.

Kevin

The only quantitative trial I know of Mobile phones to determine the best reception in Rural areas is run each year by the independent Farmer Research group called the Kondinin Group. See URL below for the one in May this year
They have been conducting it for many years in the same location out of Hay NSW


http://www.farmingahead.com.au/articles/3/8367/2013-05-20/new/kondinin-group-mobile-phone-testing-sneak-peek

If that doesn't work, Google Kondinin Group Mobile

I use a iphone 4s with a smoothtalker cradle and broomstick external aerial. I works just as good as my lg with patch lead did.

Hi kch

You stated that your Telstra Frontier is "not very good"

I have one of these (They are a ZTE T81)........and I use it when I am out of range of "normal smart phone reception"

I do however plug it into a decent external antennae and to be honest I cant fault it its performance for reception.........

The only issue I would comment on with it is that the screen is not a sensitive as my Samsung and the touch screen sometimes is a bit less sensitive than I would like to be.....in fact damn frustrating at times........but performance is excellent

I have recommended these to a few wanting longer range reception and all are happy

perhaps it is the individual handset or your antennae?....just a thought

I have the T81 (Frontier) and no problem with external antenna.

What problem do you have.

Pedro

I've used the iPhone 4 and 5 out bush without an external antenna and it's always worked very well.
The Telstra network has expanded so much in the last few years that many remote aboriginal communities and mine sites now have a phone tower.
Reception issues have greatly improved in my view.

As mentioned above, the Smooth talker cradles are a simple method of mating an external antenna to most modern phones if you really want one.

We have a Telstra T96 for remote work. It has an external antenna connection and the Telstra blue tick. And a satellite phone in the car for real remote comms.

I must admit though we haven't used it much. Only one phone call and that worked well. It can be connected to the internet etc but we disabled all that rubbish as not needed.