Arbphone

[gibbon]

Or just get any phone you want and get insurance. Orange just sold e insurance for £1 a month as I like to trash phones

[wills-mill]

Or get a really cheap basic phone with no glamour, but massive battery life and a keypad that suits stubby tree fingers

 

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[Beezy]

gibbon, can you expand on the orange e-insurance? all i can find is their £6 a month orange care plan? cheers mate

J

[Dean Lofthouse]

This is my first mobile phone in 1980, £35 per month line rental and 50p per minute calls

 

That was a lot of money then

[penfold]

still got that in the land cruiser haven't you dean? you know how these japs are lagging so far behind land rover:001_tt2:

[gibbon]

gibbon, can you expand on the orange e-insurance? all i can find is their £6 a month orange care plan? cheers mate

J

 

They tried to sell me insurance at £6 when I changed my phone. I said no thanks and he offered it for £1. Just ask for it

[Andy Collins]

So it seems there's 2 main choices;

1. super tough but basic phone, or
   
2. a mobile office with a phone on it (that you have to keep in a box!).
   

 

Do those of you who have email and internet on your phone find that you use them very much? Has owning a blackberry changed the way you've been able to manage your work?

 

 

BB has definitely changed the way I manage things, from emailing pics and details straight to the council, emailing the clients who work in the city with pics of layouts b4 planting and so on. It certainly speeds things up. I can do 90% of my "paperwork" during the day now instead of in the evening.

[ScottF]

What about this new "rugged" Nokia that's about to come out? Nokia Europe - Nokia 3720 classic - Products

 

Doesn't look that tough, but there are plenty of videos in UToob of people throwing them in water or running over them (an average day on an arb site, then).

 

I'm going to order one this weekend, so by monday I should be able to report how I managed to smash it into little pieces.

 

Maybe I'll get Mr Ed to drop it into my pint (again).

[Arob]

What about this new "rugged" Nokia that's about to come out? Nokia Europe - Nokia 3720 classic - Products

 

Doesn't look that tough, but there are plenty of videos in UToob of people throwing them in water or running over them (an average day on an arb site, then).

 

I'm going to order one this weekend, so by monday I should be able to report how I managed to smash it into little pieces.

 

Maybe I'll get Mr Ed to drop it into my pint (again).

 

I've been put off the Landrover type phone, although it sounds good and has a 3 year unconditional guarantee, a friend of a friend apparently has one and I hear it's been sent back a few times already.

[Arob]

BB has definitely changed the way I manage things, from emailing pics and details straight to the council, emailing the clients who work in the city with pics of layouts b4 planting and so on. It certainly speeds things up. I can do 90% of my "paperwork" during the day now instead of in the evening.

 

Thanks Andy, I think I'm going to have to take a closer look at them.