Friday, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:22
Hi Mike - Your to subtle for me whats the question mark ?
Hi Pyro
On the various tests I undertook the Samsung A412 (a pre-paid version of the Telstra A411) had very good sensitivity and range even though it was not the best.
But it has reasonble size text, buttons and sound output (if you hold it right)
I need those magnifying glasses for close up but don't need any normally and this means that I cannot use phones like the excellent 6120 without putting glasses on and being very careful with the fingers.
The operation of the A411 , a flip phone is very simple, and in fact all you need to do to answer or close a call is to open the phone which doesn't require glasses or selecting a button.
I brought a 6120 for other family members, and while a good phone I found that a call would ring out before I finally got to answer it, or that a button would accidently get pressed.
Unlike the 6120 the A411 does have an external antenna socket at the rear. To use it you need to buy two things , an aerial and a connecting lead. They are standard acessories, and I could come up with model numbers if required.
The aerial I brought is a short magnetic base one which I stick to the cars roof as required.
I also have a vertical one about a meter long left over from CDMA days as aerials for CDMA can be used on NextG .
In practise an external aerial is not required very much, and its a slight pain to have to plug it in and out.
On a recent
camp trip to a place called Coburn pines , phone signal was cutting in and out at
camp. 20 ft up a nearby tree signal was better than external aerial so we wrapped phone in plastic bag and tied it to a branch. If a call or better, a text , came in, we would hear it ring as it has a loud ringer and answer it at our leisure.
I brought both of
mine off the net for something like $35 total.
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