Best Farming mobile phone

Muckit

What mobile phone are you using at the moment?

reverenddave

iphone
there's ****loads of farming apps too

Bodacious

reverenddave wrote: »

iphone
there's ****loads of farming apps too

Iphone also but wouldnt say they are very practical.. always minding it but still getting scratched and too big in the pocket of jeans or can start ringing someone equally while you doing anything physical.

Reverddave Am interested in these farming apps though can you post them:)

reverenddave

Bodacious wrote: »

Iphone also but wouldnt say they are very practical.. always minding it but still getting scratched and too big in the pocket of jeans or can start ringing someone equally while you doing anything physical.

Reverddave Am interested in these farming apps though can you post them:)

http://www.ayzor.com/2010/top-10-best-iphone-apps-for-farmers.html

vanderbadger

bought a cover for my iphone on ebay, its a hard plastic shell that closes over phone and then a silicon outer cover, its pretty tough, have dropped phone sveral times and no bother, otherwise it would be ruined in jig time

reilig

I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia for the last 6 months. Nice little phone - easily fits in the pocket. Has some handy apps like weather etc. I downloaded a free excell app for it which I adapted to record "in heat" days for cows and subsequently calving dates. Handy for keeping an eye for repeats too. Phone only cost €129

Min

Bodacious wrote: »

Iphone also but wouldnt say they are very practical.. always minding it but still getting scratched and too big in the pocket of jeans or can start ringing someone equally while you doing anything physical.

Reverddave Am interested in these farming apps though can you post them:)

I have one for near 18 months, it had its falls, it got a little wet, it fell into fresh cow dung last week :pac: and it is going fine.

The button on top of mine stopped working so I can switch off, to avoid the accidental phone calls I moved the phone app to a different page so it wasn't on the front.

Muckit

The reason I posted this thread is because I'm USELESS for minding phones! 5-6months is the MAX I get out of them.

Dust is the main killer of them:rolleyes:

The OH just got me one of these. It's supposed to be 'dust and waterproof', but don't worry I'I soon test it out!!

It even has a little inbuilt LED torch...... now that's what I call a 'smart' phone...

I wear glasses aswel for reading/driving/working and dust was causing me to make alot of trips to specsavers with scratched lenses:o

But I eventually got a pair of these prescription safety glasses. Now I don't know how I ever did without them. They do look a bit mad, but who gives a f*ck once they're saving me time and money

reilig

I used to be like you. A phone could last me a few months then it would get clogged with dust or get smashed.

I even had one of those samsungs that are in your link - nice phone. Supposedly indestructable. They have tv ads for them with cars and trucks running over them. Well they're definitely not indestructable. I had mine in my pocket, putting cattle into a crush, a cow kicked the gate and it swung back and caught me on the side. No damage to me thankfully but the phone screen was smashed. Other issues that I had was the screen fogging up with condensation when I had it in my pocket.

Now when I buy a phone I try to choose a good cover for it also to protect it for as long as I can. Phones seem to be better built in the last year or 2 and seem to last longer for me.

vanderbadger

nokia 6310 was a grat old phone, battery would last for ages, still have 1 or two lying arund at home in drawers, they seem kinda stone age nowthey were so simple

keep going

samsung solid extreme the best so far and the light is so handy

whelan1

i buy the cheapest one going , so then i am not at a loss when i damage or loose it, didnt jcb bring out a phone it was in the journal ages ago

TUBBY

keep going wrote: »

samsung solid extreme the best so far and the light is so handy

+1. great phone and i am very hard on phones. this one has hit the deck more often than frank bruno and still stays going.

PMU

vanderbadger wrote: »

nokia 6310 was a grat old phone, battery would last for ages, still have 1 or two lying arund at home in drawers, they seem kinda stone age nowthey were so simple

thats for sure.