CDMA Phones

There is a nokia available 3245? that has a car kit for extra $49 on Telstra plan. I have just gone to the TD 6000. Good phone and seems to have very good signal power(over twice the range of my old kyocera)
Telstra would be your best bet for CDMA i would have thought. Other brands to look at are Kyocera, Motorola and Nokia. LG make the better phones IMHO.

Went to the flip phone as after a while the face of the open phone would be so scratched as to be unreadable

There is always secondhand?

I have a T730 Motorola from telstra. I pay $16 per month for it + the $125.00 plan. Thats $141.00 per month minimum. It has a 3.6 Lithium ION batterey model number Q3T06ANC 3FQ. A 3/

I bought a $400.00 hands free kit and had it installed by the telstra recomended person. Who charged me a couple hundred to install.

The Hands free worked great for 2 months then went crapola.

I only use the kit now to hold the phone. I just pull over when the phone rings.

I will mention that I dropped it and cracked the color screen and that cost about $300 to fix. And there was no phone they could lend me. The service overall was just crap. CRAP. I am in a contract for the next two years and I would love to get out.

If I was buying again and was not in a contract, I'd stick with Telstra because the young girl serving me named Samantha had great titties.

I think I'm in love.

Hi Indy,
If you are after reasonably priced phone and car kits then go to ebay and look out for a Nokia 6385 and Nokia Car Kit (Cark-91). The car kit also fits a number of GSM phones and if you use a dual mode antenna you can have a GSM phone and a CDMA phone that fits the same car kit and antenna.
Work supplies me with a GSM phone and I use a CDMA on the weekends so this solution really suits my needs.
I paid $50 for the car kit and $200 for a New Phone (still with plastic on the screen). Can't get more reasonable priced than that can you?

Hi I have a Nokia 2280 which I got four months ago. I asked Telstra for a patch cable for the phone and was told that that model did not have the facilities for a patch cable. I now have an antena, which was used on an earlier phone, anew phone but no connection in between. Some time I wished I had stuck to my old GSM phone where I could at least take the sim card out and put it in another phone. I think that CDMA is grosely overated

Hello Indy,
Yesterday, I priced a CDMA phone from our local telephone shop here in
Busselton and the price is as follows, Nokia 2112 $229 +$25 for a protective
cover. Plan, $30 Business plan min 12mth contract with Telstra , 31c per 30sec+20c flagfall, we will go with the 1/2 price on fixed lines 24/7.
You need to be a rocket scientist to work out their plans, good thing I had help.
Hope this helps. Didn't price an in car kit
Rob

Hi Indy,

I have been an Orange (Hutchison Telecoms) CDMA customer for 5 years now since they first opened their doors to CDMA. I have found the coverage superior to that of GSM (both spectrums) in city (Sydney) and rural areas. I used it on a property 48km nw of Charleville no probs, I also had a friend with a Telstra GSM on that trip and he had nothing!!

Now before anybody bags the Orange Network, your phone will roam on Telstra's CDMA in areas outside that of the Orange coverage area, and Orange have call plans far cheaper that Telstra.

In terms of phones, the latest LG (6000 series I think) is a great phone, but I think that there is no provision to talk on it and charge it at the same time unless it is in the car kit, so could e a problem when using at home. I have an older LG which has been a great phone, but has the above limitation.
I am about to upgrade and the company my girl works for have just purchased 21 Nokia 6225 units including the genuine Nokia 'pop' car kits and they all report excellent results, so as I am due for an upgrade myself I am getting this little nokia.

The cost, well Orange sell it outright for $336 + a couple hundred $$ installed for the car kit.
In my 10+ years of owning a mobile phone, my Orange CDMA has by far been the best phone I have ever had, and I will be sticking to the Orange network in future.

My 2 cents,
Cheers,
Wayne

Im running a Telstra CDMA with a 6225 for the last 4 weeks.

Optus business plans offer 15c per 30 sec calls 7am-7pm which is a good deal (they resell Telstra CDMA). Telstra business plans give you half price calls to Mobile or home phone which can be as attractive as the Optus plans.

On telstra beware the bundling of the phone in with the plan. Its cheaper to go on the repayment option with telstra,and take all of the bonuses seperatly as this works out cheaper in the long run than budling the phone in with the plan. There is no difference in upfront cost, just a state of mind change. By using the repayment option I saw close on $250 over the term.

The Car kit's for the Nokia work a treat. I havent had to leave the CBD yet so i havent been able to test the signal coverage with the external antenna.

Id leave the telstra shop behind they are a pack of pricks in my mind. I went with FoneZone and they didnt ask for proof of holding an ABN to get on the business plans etc, which cuts down the paper trail to kick the whole thing off.