Mobile phone

[Pablo]

Right it's that time of the year again I need new phones does anyone have any recommends or warnings. All I need is a robust phone with decent volume and camera and easy to text. Unfortunately my old phones are now out of manufacture but they were great. Cheers.

[GB_Groundworks]

i have the sony erikson c905, 8 mp camera really good but after 4 months of site use its on its way out time to get a new one on insurance, like the look of the jcb tough phone but camera not very good. my old sony erikson k810i lasted well though.

[henpecked]

Well you have the n95 (same as n96 but £150 cheaper) blackberry (good for e-mails on the go-get a red 8830 one ,like mine ) but for site Ive never found anything to match the 6230i Nokia, great camera, good in call functions, drop in cement, mud, breakfast, still comes up smiling.....only £30 second hand.
I got the Blackberry curve on contract for free with Blackberry service thrown in (usually a tenner) The N95 has an amazing camera 5 mega pixel and it zooms like no other phone, very buggy tho, slow to respond, but of an office phone really. My Blackberry copes of on site as it has an nice leather pouch.
Still cant beat the 6230, if it had sat nav (like the other 2) and e-mail on the go, I'd bin the other two.

HP

[lutonlagerlout]

why not just get the apple iphone free on an 18 month contract ,then flog the phone for £300 on ebay and put the sim in your old phone?
I did
it gives me great pleasure looking at the workhorse phone and knowing the money went to a better cause
LLL

[Dave_L]

Nokia 6230i was a good phone but the speakers failed in all three of mine!

Motorola V3i was a good phone, had a few of those.

Nokia 6300 now, good camera etc loud and clear audio.

[henpecked]

Nokia 6230i was a good phone but the speakers failed in all three of mine!

Yes that is a down-fall of them, I had mine replaced for a fiver. Its when the dust gets into the earpiece. Could bluetooth from 175 ft away. It was great, you could take a photo of a board with 'Tommy, get the kettle on you fat client' and bluetooth it to him from the other side of the job :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

HP

[Dave_L]

"Fat client" lol

[mickavalon]

Got a samsung b2700, sports phone, camera quite good and all other functions spot on. Must confess this is my second one in about 6 months, but only cos my first ended being compacted, when i cleverly left it on a wall on site, it worked for a bit sort of but no one could hear me cos of the echo. Too be fair to samsung i don't think they test for such things !

[Tommy]

I'm on my 3rd Samsung G600 since last February. The first decided to internally disintegrate within a few months.

The second lasted nearly 12 months before I had one of those slow motion accidents, mowing on a triple cylinder mower, glanced down to see my phone drop from my pocket, hit the control panel, and bounce just in front of the left hand cylinder.
Lets just say, I took it back to Carphone Warehouse in a bag that contained the bigger bits that i could find :rock: