Good Rural Phone?

Hi there
I have the Telstra T90 - been happy with the car kit and phone cradle has direct antenna connection,bue tooth and charges phone.

I have a motorola defy, which doesn't meet your needs, but I can tell you that it gets reception where my Samsung A411 doesn't. I bought my defy when it was labelled a Blue tick phone.

Peter

"The oldies like Samsung A411 are long gone."

Was one on ebay new friday at $36 - so maybe worth keeping an eye out for them Boobook

Telstra T90 is a good phone.

My Nokia 6720 is the best rural reception phone I've had so far, beats the wifes samsung A411 hands down. Has an Inductive antenna, no plugs or cables to handle.

Very happy with my Telstra T90 for bush purposes - very robust as well !


Cheers

Gazz

The Nokia 6120 is still available for about $75.
Was $569 when I got mine

Has bluetooth and you can buy a cradle for it with power and an inductive aerial connection.

I have one in the cupboard actually.

Can also install Tom Tom on it and navigate using a bluetooth GPS like the Globalsat BT338..
Beats an Iphone hands down for remote reception.

I have a telstra zte f165 . this model has been updated twice so i don't know the newest model but the 165 has excellent coverage unlike my wifes samsung

regards nick

Just be careful if you are buying a Telstra (ZTE) phone and you own a Toyota with a factory bluetooth radio.They are not compatible.I have a T-108 and a T-3020 and neither will work in my 2010 Corolla and from what I have read, won't work in any Toyota with factory bluetooth.

G'day,
Being a farmer and owning property (just outside where 90%of the population that Telstra services live!) I've done ALOT of whinging to Telstra on this, we used to have the zte165 but now run the T90. You can run bluetooth with these and can plug in external aerials. People who tell you you don't need an external aerial with phone brand XX are not actually outside coverage areas. we run patch leads to aerials on all vehicles and get good coverage. (Usually 2to3 bars where most phones without aerials have nothing.) My vote is for the T90. A tough phone - good coverage, but basic. Poor camera, horrible for viewing internet, but rings when you need it to!
Cheers
Corrugate

I have a samsung telstra C5220 takes an external ariel and works fine in most areas

My Husband dearly loves his A411, the only reason he deviated from it recently was due to getting a free HTC Desire for work use. I dare say he will still be keeping the trusty A411 for sentimental reasons once he cuts the account off in the next month or so.

We live rural with marginal reception, the Desire doesn't seem too bad in that department if you were toying with the idea of considering some of the newer smart phones. Not sure much would match up to the A411 when considering reception and battery usage!

Well strike the Telstra T100 off the list.

I went to a Telstra shop yesterday, and they had T100's.

The sales guy refused to sell it to me. He said it was the most unreliable phone he had seen. I explained that I just wanted it for an ocassional use remote phone and he would not budge.

He said it would be back being repaired 70% of the time. He said the T90 is the best they had, but I don't want to spend that much money.