ZTE-165 Telstra country phone.

Im only wanting a phone with the best coverage. Dont care much for fancy ringtones, cameras or the way it looks. Send, end and sms is all i need. This one would seem to fit the bill. Cheers

I live in East Gippsland and it works here quite well. It was the only one that would work at home! I was told that they had issues with their previous phones but took the punt. So far so good, but I said the same thing about a Nissan once!

Thats interesting considering they are *specifically* NOT recommended for country use - good to here some feedback :-)

Gday Derick, It must be a luck of the draw thing hey. I have read mixed reports on them also. Samsung and LG are getting mixed reports as well. Its got me buggered. Is your 6120 and was your 165 in carkits??
Cheers David

Interesting Derek your findings are so different to our company. We too are supplied with both phones as an option & find the 165 slightly superior in coverage (NE Vic) when the antena is extended gaining an extra bar in most locations. Surprisingly we have had only a handful of minor software issues with the Nokia (Early on) & to my knowledge no problem with the Telstra phone at all. The pull out antena works fine & around here is barely required anyway. The plastic belt clip is handy too minimising scratches on the screen, something the Nokia suffers badly from when used in the field. Having used Nokia phones before I do prefer the layout better but the tiny buttons are hopeless being far too easy to hit the wrong key & for this reason alone I wouldn't get one.
On the Easter High Country Trip we had service on top of most hills & I'd say was as good or better than the CDMA network even connecting the computer to the internet up near Lovicks Hut.
Both have been good phones, office staff generally choosing the Nokia, field staff going for the ZTE.
Cheers Craig..........

The Samsung and LG are hopeless as well I have been with someone who has had both. We were both standing in the river bed of the Bollonne River out at St.Goerge and when he had his Samsung he would have to walk up the top of the bank to get service. Now with the car kits I don't use a car kit just straight off the phones antenna and a blue tooth kit. But if you are unsure of my experiences with Next G phone use in very remote regional areas why dont you call up a Telstra shop in a regional area. Don't worry about blue ticks that is just a market ploy by telstra that just means that they get them cheaper so you buy 1 and they make more money out of you.

Good point Derick. I might get some real answers from telstra regional shops. Telstra Shops in city areas have not got a clue.

F165 seems to be doing the job - thats feedback to us from clients
Everyone was very wary of them being ZTE but...

Go with the Nokia 6120, just replaced an LG TU550 and the Nokia is lightyears ahead, anybody want a cheap LG Car Kit, brand new never been out of the box, got the new phone before I got the car kit fitted.

Cheers RosscoH.

I will never buy another nokia after buying 3 e65`s for my company and there all junk so many problems its a joke..nokia have gone bad

RosscoH

I'm looking for a new car kit for the TU550; the part number is HFLGTU500. If that is what you have, how much do you want for it and where are you?

Bruce M

Hi Bruce,
It is Genuine LG. Give me a ring on 0407 742 361.

Thanks RosscoH.

ah ha, Im sold. A phone with a loud ring.

Yeah well, you might say that, but how often do you have to pay for message bank recovery call cost just because you didn't hear the bastard ring in time!!

Oh, also get the ring time extended by calling Telstra, they can extend it to a full MINUTE, before the call diverts to messagebank, very handy when you can hear it ringing from half a kilometre away (i'm serious), and you need to sprint 500 metre in 20 seconds???? You must be faster then me...

One minute though, no problem.

LOL, makes people wonder what you been doing when you pick up the phone, huffing and puffing after running 500 metres to answer the phone........

Im always ringing people back cos i cant hear the bloody thing.

LOL. 500metres in 60. I reckon Cathy would have happily takin that time.

I'm sure you can do it if you try, that's only 30 kms per hour.

Can't advice to run the whole hour though, but 1 minute of that will cover 500 metres...