ATTENTION: We genuinely would value your feedback!

Sally Lacey · Difflock Staff Member Joined: 31 Oct 2009 Odometer: 0

Please take 1 minute to read about a ‘Rugged’ Difflock Mobile Phone and Service and kindly take part in the survey.

I should like to point out that this is not a campaign to sell this service via this thread! It is a poll to gauge feedback typically for Forum members.

It includes the following unique, additional features over and above standard phone and SMS:

a. Push to Talk – push a button and use your phone like a walkie-talkie to any other user for free

b. Push to locate – find any of your friends/buddies anywhere in the world, with a single button push

c. Plot History – plot historic journeys over any period of time (google map, mapping software)

d. Video streaming direct to mobile – stay in touch with the news, world affairs, latest 4x4 events and sport

e. Network - Available for UK & French Service providers. World Wide operation will include ALL features

f. A rugged mobile phone that is DUST and Water retardant

If you have an interest in this service, please can you take part in the poll listed above this thread... see above

. · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject:

Mine's exactly £25 pm. 600 mins, 250 texts, free landline calls, unlimited internet and e-mail.

Rich. · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject:

£15 per month - 100min, unlimited texts and unlimited internet.

Rich

winchman · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:06 pm Post subject:

I have two
Ones £10 a month 200mins unlimited text
the others free as its a works one and as long as I dont abuse it its free.
Whilst I think the service is a good idea I just wouldnt use it.
But I am not really a techno gadet type, I have just renewed my contract and got a shiney new touch screen phone, but I just gave it to our son and carried on using my 4 year old flip

vtrax · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:22 am Post subject:

"I should like to point out that this is not a campaign to sell this service via this thread!" Laughing

RichardD

Damian · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:40 am Post subject:

£10 for 300 mins and 300 texts...

UK_Andy · Just got MTs Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Odometer: 301

mines on orange, 600mins and free text, £20 pcm if you supply your own phone

ooky_123 · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:59 am Post subject:

mobiles, On private, one company Paid.

Comapny Phone regularly sees bill's of up to 200 a month.. Private Phone Between 35 a Month and 185 a Month ( high Data useage as frequently travelling overseas ).

Wish UK mobile networks activated the PTT feature they have in the US & Canada .

YotaDave · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

My mobile is £15pm line rental 600mins free calls to mobiles and landlines 600 free texts and unlimited free internet. In general my bill amounts to less than £25pm, I dont use any other phone as its cheaper to call using my mobile than a landline.

I have had loads of phones with the PTT feature but none of them have worked in the UK as the networks dont support it which I find very strange as the UK has one of the most up to date cellular systems in the world, the US is about 3 generations behind and they have PTT support!?

Im guessing that the PTT feature on this handset would be PMR?

. · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:27 pm Post subject:

PTT over cellular (PoC) is currently available in the UK but not directly from the networks. It is relatively expensive and, obviously, only works when all users are in coverage.

The reason it is more popular in the states is the cost of providing radio coverage over vast areas and the fact that cellular service is dictated by the masses and text messaging is the big thing in UK.

jeepmadmike · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:41 pm Post subject:

a rugged i phone would be a top tool

handy · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:01 pm Post subject:

3 phones 1 usb net dongull,
all unlimited calls text and data,
insured next day replacement for them all
£110 month

try
http://www.saynoto0870.com/search.php
meens you can phone non local numbers from your mobile and include it in your talk time!

YotaDave · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject:

davew · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:39 am Post subject:

(pete) · Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:34 pm Post subject:

this is an iteresting one this will there be a difflock mobile contract with phone

few questions from me and possably others would be ....

what service provider would the phone be with

what phone would it be you say dust and water proof thats quite a statment and there a not that many phones out there like that

what costs would we be looking for this as a package and what would the package include for example how many texts and what if i brake the phone

and does it come with free difflock stickers Laughing

. · Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:21 am Post subject:

. · Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:23 am Post subject:

bertie_bas205 · Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:56 pm Post subject:

£45/month. 1200 free minutes anytime, any network. 1000's of txt, web doofer (WAP?), maps, free fone...

And yes i sometimes go over this..... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!

Winnet · Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:04 pm Post subject:

£35 a moth, 600mins, unlimited txts and 250mb a month carried over.

G.

Nightbar · Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:41 am Post subject:

Company phone - probs 18Eu an month (most people calll me)
Personal phone - 15 or 25 Eu top ups as its PAYG probs every 5 weeks if that.

Interested to see wha you have on offer.

. · Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject:

OT (again!) ordered the Otterbox defender case of Amazon for my Blackberry Bold 9700 - excellent piece of kit. Thanks for the pointer Davew

ukjeeper · Off-Road Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Odometer: 1135

4 phones on Orange. Mine, hers, both 'kids' (though they are 18 and 16 and the older one pays me back!).

Then i have typically at least 3 smart phones i use for work (i'm the 'phone guy')

As far as this poll goes, a Nokia 5800 with Viewranger and a 3g connection will do pretty much everything on the list. Under £200 for the device and basic maps.

Add a protective pouch (the 5800 has a resistive screen, so it can feel a touch through the bag, unlike the Iphone/pod and my i8910) and the only thing left is PTT, which the Euro networks don't support. Only network i know of that does is Nextel in the US, and they use proprietry devices.

ali_aberdeen · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:38 am Post subject:

i am splashing about 300 quid a month at the moment in Norway, anything cheaper has to be a help

vitara_mad · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:04 am Post subject:

i personaly think it will come down to what this would cost & what exactly you get for that cost

im paying £15 a month 700 min any net 250 texts unlimited landlines & unlimited net & got a free phone off them on voda

pete_mills · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:04 pm Post subject:

I have a samsung pixxon 8 mega pixel phone which I cannot stand! Even worse, I'm lumbered with it for another 6 months with an 18 month contract! 6 months with a crap phone and no manufacturers warrenty (that was up after 12 months)!

I need a more rugged phone with a better contract. I hadly use mine and pay over 40 quid a month! I'm a mug.

Pete

mudmenace · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:55 pm Post subject:

just under £20 quid normily im tight make people ring me lol

joyofduck · Gate Opener Joined: 11 Jul 2010 Odometer: 4

This could be fun as a second phone - I have been considering such since switching to iPhone and being too scared to take it off-roading.

a. Push to Talk – push a button and use your phone like a walkie-talkie to any other user for free

Sounds great

b. Push to locate – find any of your friends/buddies anywhere in the world, with a single button push

I have no friends on Difflock Wink

c. Plot History – plot historic journeys over any period of time (google map, mapping software)

Sounds GREAT. I have built this function using a tracker (see laralive.org) but it would be great to have a commercial offering.

d. Video streaming direct to mobile – stay in touch with the news, world affairs, latest 4x4 events and sport

Not bothered

e. Network - Available for UK & French Service providers. World Wide operation will include ALL features

Any chance of a good international roaming deal, especially on data?

f. A rugged mobile phone that is DUST and Water retardant

Must have..

Sounds like an interesting project - Will it come in orange or lime green ?