Nokia Next G with External antenna

Nokia 6120, with a Force car kit is what i use. Works well
Cheers lyndon

Hi Tony

The 95 doesnt have an external antenna connection.

Peter

I'm quite happy with the 6120. It certainly kicks the arse of the old LG TU500 for coverage, and doesn't have that annoying ascending ringtone 'feature'.

It works well with the force cradle - I get coverage in more places than I did on cdma (though I'm sure there are plenty of people with the opposite experience!).

A couple of things that don't impress me:
i. I don't particularly like the bluetooth connection for hands-free. My car kit is always on, not wired through the ignition, so there is no automatic pairing.
ii. I've replaced the plastic casing nearly half a dozen times (in less than a year) as the fastening system keeps falling apart. At least I'm always getting a different coloured phone!
iii. relatively short battery life - can be killed pretty quickly with a few long calls.

These are relatively minor issues I guess. The main issue for me - coverage - is very good.

We have Nokia E51's in the Force car kit with a 7Db Laser antenna.

Hear is a link to the antenna:-
http://www.laser-antenna.com/product.php?product_id=63

Was up at Morgan on the River Murray over the week end and with the phone in the cradle and the other one sitting on top of the dash the one in the cradle gave about 2 bars more on signal and did not drop out, the other one would loose signal.

This type of antenna connection is the same as on glass antennas use and nobody ever complained about them.

Up in the Flinders Rangers between Hawker and Rawnsly Park you get drop out, in the car kit we got less drop outs and if it did drop out it would come back in service alot quicker.

Don't expect it to work miricals.

Use as higher gain antenna as possiable.

The Nokia 6120 is a good phone and the N95 is fantastic, the 6120 is a bit hard to use with the small keys and will not do everything a Nokia E51 will.

The N95 does ever thing but the down fall for me is it's a slide phone.

Have a good look at the Nokia E51.

When the Nokia phones goes into the cradle the phones display will still go onto screen saver and the key pad locked....very annoying.

There is a program you can get called "Lights On" that when the phone is on charge via the cradle it will turn the phones screen saver off and unlock the key pad automaticly and when removed the phone goes back to normal.

Regards Richard

Samsung A412 has an external antenna connection, & is a surprisingly good phone.

I've just bought the A412 and find it's coverage is very close to what's predicted on the Telstra Coverage Website.

You will always get better coverage using an external antenna. The Telstra NextG coverage map will give you a good idea.

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Thanks, Shaker and Mike - we'll go with the Samsung A412 and the external antenna - one decision made and now will concentrate on looking at satellite phone.

Will definitely only look at the 9505 or 9505a - just need to look at the differences between the two.

Thanks again, the advice has definitely saved me time - and frustration!!