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Diana, the analog network got pulled because it crossed over, or passed thru, other needed areas of the transmission spectrum...

weasel word bollocks...

...planned obsolescence

... all phone, tv and radio networks will change again, over the 20 years...

...for the 'good' of the people....

tv will, one day have to go into the gigahertz spectrum... which is the only way the 'carrier' can deliver large format widescreen OLED digital tv (and the audio carrier) , but we haven't heard about that yet...

but, it'll be in your house by 2025

cheers, GQ

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

If your going for the other system - 3G etc avoid Sony Ericsson. The one I got recently I selected because of the ability to connect to the external hi gain antenna - today went to get the cradle for it and am told by Sony Ericsson themselves that they are moving away from the hard wired ones to blue tooth.

I asked what about the antenna and their response was that no one wants the antennas.

Wrong - I want an external antenna :mad::mad:
Diana

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My mate just got that setup last week on his house the antenna was $125 its working very very well he had next to no coverage before he did that.He got one for his ute aswell it works just as well.

Greg

Got a Nokia 6120 (next G) today, seems to work well.......

My personal experience is that Nokia's are one of the best menu driven systems around. I have tried Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Ericsson and Sony Ericsson and found of all of them the Nokia was the easiest and most intuitive to navigate and use.

The Motorola, Samsung and Ericssons were the worst for ease-of-use and the Sony Ericssons whilst pretty, had their limitations that I really didn't like (eg. maximum of 100 SMS's stored in memory including all your sent items etc. - it's easy enough to fill up over a year or two and then if there's any there you want to keep (for whatever reason) you have to pick and choose - but the phone has 32Mb of Memory?! Why limit the SMS's to only 100? Doesn't make sense...)

Dunno what they're like in the scrub, haven't used them out there before so can't comment...

I have the LG TU500...

Couldnt be happier...

Its a phone! And does internet....

Thats enough for a phone to do....

Works great in fringe areas.

If you want NextG for country use and want external aerial connection, the only two options are the LG and the Telstra el cheapo special. Of these, the LG is definitely the better phone - the other one even feels like lightweight rubbish. We have both at work and so far have heard of no problems with the LG, but people with the Telstra are not happy with them.

I'm still on CDMA but will have to change shortly - will be going for the LG. Can use my existing aerials in both cars, but will have to get new phone kits to suit the LG.

I was hoping to upgrade to a phone that would also replace my PDA which is getting a bit old now, but unfortunately, none of the phones that will meet that need have external aerial connection / car kits available.

I just ordered a Nokia 6120 to replace my aging GSM with 3G. Force make a car kit with an inductive loop and charger cradle for this phone that gives you an external antenna of sorts and charge facility with a bluetooth carkit.
http://www.forcetechnology.com.au/pr...rtno=RC-CR6120
and yes, I know inductive loops are a compromise but I mostly don't have to operate in a fringe area.

Regards,
Tote

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Originally Posted by Quiggers

Diana, the analog network got pulled because it crossed over, or passed thru, other needed areas of the transmission spectrum...

weasel word bollocks...

...planned obsolescence

... all phone, tv and radio networks will change again, over the 20 years...

...for the 'good' of the people....

tv will, one day have to go into the gigahertz spectrum... which is the only way the 'carrier' can deliver large format widescreen OLED digital tv (and the audio carrier) , but we haven't heard about that yet...

but, it'll be in your house by 2025

cheers, GQ

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Have I heard more political mumbo jumbo excuses than what these pollies try to confuse us with. Not likely.

If they wanted to use the analogue spectrum for something else - go and find your own spectrum.

By 2025 metropolitan users will be getting their TV via optical fibre cable to their living room. Regional and remote users will be getting it via satellite.

The problem (for the Telco's) with analogue was the reason the public (in the country) wanted it. If the range of a 3 watt phone with high gain antenna is about 20 km or more, then less cells in a given area and a problem of allocating spectrum to a given phone, then you have less ability to oversell that spectrum to Joe Public.

Why couldn't we have had an analog/3g phone with automatic switching. As soon as an A/3G phone comes within the range of a 3g cell it switches over to 3g and analogue is not transmitted in major metropolitan or urban areas forcing people onto 3G/NextG. The A/3g phones would be purchased at a premium price and mainly only regular travelers and regional/remote area residents would buy them.

Answer me that Minister Helen Coonan?

Diana

I have a new Nokia Next G phone. I don't know what model, but it is a "candy bar" phone - no flip open, sliding rubbish.

Works OK thus far.

I recently upgraded from GSM to NextG and got the LG TU550 which is suiatable for Rural areas.

The phone works fine in the rural areas I recently travelled (eg Flinders Ranges) and had full 3G coverage and internet access via my laptop.

Others in my office have the same phone and one lives in Ensay and he previously had CDMA and it is works fine here as well.

The phone's PC software is a bit hard to set up and use but once it is working it has been good to use - beats GSM any day.

Chris