The new Nokia next g phone

may not be too much longer re nokia next g michael perhaps november all i know cheers

Available in all Telstra shops as of last Monday Sandman

I saw 3 sold during the 15 minutes that I was in the shop.

Yes, Think the coverage issue may be to do with the size of the inbuilt antenna. This is a candybar profile phone as opposed to a flip phone. Seems that there is more room to have a better internal antenna in the top section of flip phones.

Anyway, the word from Telstra sales rep and I have also seen discussions about it on whirlpool (where all the phone nuts hang out) is that of all the NextG handsets currently on offer the LG has the best signal back to towers.

Absolutely no technical info to back this up! Just what I read around the internet including a couple of posts on EO here.

Cheers
Muddy

Thanks for that Muddy,

I'll have to swing by The Telstra Shop and see what "deal" they can offer to replace my CDMA phone with the 6120.

In fact, I might just be able to squeeze a visit in tomorrow, before we leave for HK on Sunday Morning. Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy!. (The trip that is)

Actually, this is my holiday concession to Bev, so that I can pick an Outback camping Trip next time, and the time after, and the time after that.
Oh the things one's got to do to keep the peace:-))

Oh, and the other thing is that Telstra are NOT offering subsidised handset plans for the 6120.

Nokia and Telstra have a pretty strange business relationship from what I hear. They both think they are GOD in their own arenas which is why it has taken so long to get any Nokia product on NextG.

Nokia are the biggest handset maker in the world and don't have time to be developing custom branded devices on non-standard network frequecies for some little outfit down in Australia that only sells piddling volumes of handsets compared with other world markets that are much easier to get on with and will take Nokia generic branded product.

Telstra are the pig-headed Australian market leader who have built a u-beaut new Mobile network using a different network frequency to everyone else in the world and INSIST on all handsets on this network having Telstra Logos and Telstra screen pictures and button behaviours that link to Bigpond and so on.

The result is that Telstra is only offering these handsets on a Mobile Repayment Option type plan. You can pay $589 outright or about $24 a month for 24 months and THEN you sign up for a call plan on top of that.

All the other manufacturers phones are available on subsidised plans.

It could also be that because of the "Nokia reputation" for great phones, Telstra thinks that LOTS of people will want the Nokia handset so they make it more expensive.

Think we might wait a while.......

Good Luck
Muddy

Yeah,

Good thinking 99!

With that info, I'll wait until I can buy it outright from Nextmobile, or a similar Company. Then just pick the cheapest NextG non-contract plan.

Yes, I did not mention that this same handset was also released on the 3 Network last week and can be bought outright for $399 I think. 3 will unlock the phone if you ask them and you can then put a Telstra NextG USIM in it. The only thing that is different is the 3 logo stays on the screen.

Much cheaper than $589 at Telstra. See threads on Whirlpool for more info.

Cheers

Nope - it truly does work like crap compared to others!

If it's sold on the 3 Network then I doubt it will be the same phone.

It may have the same case, but there's no reason for 3 to sell it with NextG capability.

Nokia sell the same outer case with different insides for different regions.

Double-check before you buy it from 3 - if you swap to Telstra you may find it only works on GSM - not NextG.

Doug T,
I changed over to a Samsung 701 (love the big letters).
Is this the one you have and what sort of coverage in the bush do you get?
Thanks

Pedro

Hi Pedro, I have a Samsung as well and we were out in the Central West of Qld a few weeks ago and the reception was pretty good 90% of the TV repeaters we came across had a Next G repeater as well. Never seen that when I had the old CDMA.
Cheers Bruce.

Thanks for that Bruce.
Which towns in the central west?

Pedro

Pedro we went from Nanango to Dalby Mitchell Augathella Blackall Isisford Ilfracombe Barcaldine Aramac Muttaburra The Willows Injune Taroom and back to Nanango and it was pretty good all the way. Thinking about getting Next G for the internet, as it works great at home and now with so much coverage be great to be able to have the internet when away sometimes.
Cheers Bruce.

Thanks Bruce, thats a pretty fair area you covered.

Will be interested to hear from Doug as he is gets all around the place.

Pedro

Further to my post - if you *must* have a Nokia - wait for next model as it has better RF performance.

Just friendly advice from someone on the *inside* :-)

There's now a NextG basestation in Eucla giving coverage 40km either side (using an external aerial).

There now aren't too many coverage gaps between Adelaide and Nullarbor.

But still a 600km gap in coverage between Norseman and Eucla.

Steve

I work at the Ranger mine outside Jabiru and the new Samsung A411 works really well out there. Like a few others I like the big numbers, it also has a lot of things on it that only my kids would use.

Regards Bob

Hey Boo Boo come around for a beer, this afternoon and help me put my front diff back together.

By the way the LG works fine for me, It has done so for about 4 months now.

Cheers Steve.

PS stuff the diff just come around for a beer.