Mobile Phones with Blue Tooth

Many here, including us, used the Samsung A411 , and have since gone to its $99 replacement the Samsung C5220.

It has all of the above and in an easy to use flip style.

This means that with 1 finger you can open / close it to pickup or cancel a call even when phone is in a pocket, and in its normal state it is closed which reduces dust intake and makes it stronger.

You can also set the clock such that it display a normal - non digital clock face.

These and a number of other features mean it can usually be used without putting your glasses on.

Has the Telstra tick as well if you wish to plug into an antenna, and good sensitivity.

Battery life is good - but note when you have Blue tooth on - all phones have a shorter battery life.

I see you mentioned the $99 Samsung, well after yesterday's drama I can really recomend that phone, the Station owner here where I live just got one a week ago, he was out in the bush driving along the fence track when it fell off the dash onto the floor, then it must have vibrated itself to a hole in the floor and fell out, so I went along with him in the Triton to try and find it by making it ring, that didn't work too good because of the engine noise but we did stop at a couple of places where it was rough. So I stood in the back righ down the fence line and on the way back I noticed an object on the track...same color as the grey dirt, hey this phone must have been run over 3 times and it still works perfect.

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If you want your phone to do this you must authourise the phone to accept the device and it will do it automatically

Then hide your phone in the bluetooth menu aor everyone you walk past may try to connect if theirs is open as well

Hi Peter R,
another thing to remember about the Phone bluetooth connection to the car's connection !!
A few new car Bluetooth maynot be compaitable with the Phone
ie: the Samsung was not able to connect with the Nissan system, so the telstra saleman took 3 different phones out to my car & tried all three, the only one that worked for me was the HTC snap,& i'm very happy with that phone
hope that helps a little

Dave

I'd suggest if you want something robust, avoid the flip or slide style phones. I've found Nokia phones to be pretty robust and my current phone is a 2730 Classic (I think "Classic" means it's not a flip or slide phone). It has pretty good battery life unless I use it for the things you said you're not interested in anyway (emailing and listening to music on the external speaker).