mobile phone that takes patch lead

We bought a Telstra T100 from Coles (yes that Coles the super duper electrics shop!) comes with a patch lead socket and a blue tick.

Cost was $24.95.

Comes in blue or blue or blue.

Cheers

Sharon

In answer to some questions we have had...

There is no phone plan with this phone. It is, however, tied to Telstra.

You also receive a $10 pre paid card with the phone.

We bought ours in Canberra on Christmas eve, they are probably everywhere.

Cheers

Allan and Sharon

Samsung s5220 or older A411or A412
Telstra Tough T2 or previous T90(my current one)
All are Blue tick and have connections for an external antenna

Cheers
John

Hi David and Maureen,
Firstly you need to make sure you buy a "blue tick" phone as anything else has limited coverage. We live in remote NT and I bought a Motorola Atrix, It has worked well and has the patch facility. I am on a plan with Telstra $80 a month with $800 worth of calls and free messaging, very rarely go over my limit and use messaging a lot.
Hope this helps.

Hi, David & Maureen,

We bought a Telstra Tough 2 when we were on the road last year.
Paid cash, which gave us access to their Freedom Connect BYO plan. With out going into an A4 page of sales hype, $49.00 per month for 12 months. $550.00 worth of calls 1.5GB of data per month.
Although the screen on this phone is small the remote reception seems to be better than all but the very expensive ipad type phones & is easy to connect to our Mac lap top.
We improved our 05 BT phone arial reception, when we realised that there was a TV type joiner instead of a shielded wireless joiner used, when one of the extras ordered with our new van for the then CDMA phone.

Regards David & Sue

We have the Samsung A411 - works a charm.

Currently in the USA and simply bought an ATT SIM for the phone and all is good.

When iPhone 5 appears we will get that and keep the Samsung for off-road stuff. Probably buy some type of a prepaid SIM when needed.

Hi David and Maureen,

There appears to be a significant amount of incorrect information being passed on to consumers by various phone outlets/providers about what is or isn't available..

Wendy purchased an Apple I-Phone 4/4s about 12 months ago and we were categorically informed 'that there was no patch lead or 'in car' cradle for i-phones. Turns out that this information was incorrect.

In WA we located a firm trading as 'Mobile Extra's in Osborne Park,
Telephone (08) 9242 4521 and the staff there have been absolutely brilliant on every occasion.

I attended there last Saturday regarding another matter and the young staff who really know their stuff, asked what type of mobile phones we were "both using" and the extent of use and ..........where???.

They then fixed the lead etc to the 7Db antenna fitted to the vehicle ( at no cost) and fitted a new patch lead for my old 'Telstra Tough Phone-Sony T-90" Next G mobile phone that we have been using with some measure of success to date.

For the Iphone...when informed of the iphone purchase, the agency owner went straight to the shelf and pulled out a complete cradle/charger kit package specifically designed, manufactured and packaged for i-phones.

The cradle/charger details are as follows;
Mobile iphone Cradle. (Apple iphone 4/4s) Model CMIC-106 .

The Unit fits into the vehicle either by screwing into the dash panel or by suction cap and fitting similar to a GPS. It has an inbuilt charger in the cradle and also has a factory fitted patch lead that will attach to a roo bar antenna. It can be hard wired or is ready to go with a cigarette lighter power souce already attached.

The complete kit comes with the following;
Cigarette Plug.
FME Male Connector.
Fuse Holder.
Window Mount Unit.
Suction Cap.
Rotating Swivel.
Surface Cleaner Pack.,
Screws
Manual.

For the old "Telstra Tough Phone -Sony -T-90 Next G mobile phone, I attached a 7db -1.8m antenna to the top of an Aluminium "Pool Cleaner" extendable handle' which can be raised up to about 5 metres. Easy to carry and put up. This has provided improved phone and computer signal access in areas where we could not previously recieve sufficient signals.

Will let you know the how it all works with the iphone cradle and patch lead to the 7db antenna on the roo bar when we are up at Ningaloo next week.

Hope this helps.