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mse

Member Since: 06 Apr 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 5038

2016 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Scotia Grey

Dont do it and get an iphone!

Got a Blackberry Torch for work, very good and just got an arc for me - looks great Mike

8th Jun 2011 10:29pm

BigMike

Member Since: 13 Jul 2010
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 2253

I love how the iPhone is described as "faddy"

as a business tool its absolutely fantastic. yes, the battery is not perfect but 3gs and 4 models is far better. there are also cases you can get which give double the battery length. i dont see whats not to like. your music whenever you want, synched calendar, email and online file access etc. I'm not really an app person but there seems to be programs to do anything.

my only real criticism of it is the poor reception. I have an old nokia which I take into the hills and when the iphone has 1 bar of service, or none, the nokia usually has at least 3.

8th Jun 2011 10:46pm

DefenderOfTheEarth

Member Since: 09 Nov 2010
Location: Cornwall, UK
Posts: 1304

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Tonga Green

That's a pretty massive "only criticism" though... Defender 110XS SW gone... now VW California 180 4 Motion.

9th Jun 2011 8:18am

lrmaniac

Member Since: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 762

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Keswick Green

I have Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) ... 8Gb memory ... Very nice image/screen, nice aplications/gadgets to run with it ... added an 8Gb sdcard for more music and software ... Loads almost every webpages quickly ... the ones that load on webmobile mode are slower (

)

Bad stuff - the GPS (uses Google Maps) is not precise - don't know if it is the GPS itself or the google software ... sometimes gives me indications 50 mtr before or after what it should ....
It's becoming slower everyday

.... The battery wont last more than 36 hrs ... If I talk a lot and send more than 20 sms a day and use the internet it wont last 24 hrs ... It's not very user friendly when answering emails from it ...

Although I'm satisfied with it ... Don't know if I recomend it ...

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9th Jun 2011 3:34pm

Glynparry25

Member Since: 16 Feb 2009
Location: Miserable Midlands
Posts: 3015

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Check you lot out... I would consider myself being one of the younger members of the forum (Being under 30), and I use my mobile phone to, well, make phone calls and send text messages.

Down side to iphones and the like:

- Yes you can put all your music on it, but when you are playing it battery life is destroyed and nower days some airlines don't even let you use 'flight mode' electronics on airplanes.

- I have noticed that people with (mainly) iphones and HTC and Blueberrys tend to have their whole life on their phone. When it breaks/ gets lost, so does their life.

- Battery life..... I remember my old Ericsson t28 which would last a week with 30-45 mins talking every night and still have some life left in the battery. Now it seems that a week on standby is 'really really good' with most needing charging every day.

I have the following:
-Phone for calling and texting
-MP3 player for music
-Laptop for internet, games and movies

Phones and Facebook/ Twitter have taken over everyone's life. Whenever I go away for 6 months at a time I am unable to have a mobile phone so get the feeling of freedom from the whole 'I must have my iphone because I want to download a new song before I get home in the next 10 mins whilst updating my twitter with some bone statement which people don't give a damn about, LOL, PMSL, BRB, 10:4 Rubber ducky'....... But then again, I guess that probably makes me 'Sad'.

Besides £600 on a phone could be way more wisely spent in many other ways..... maybe even go down the pub with real people and have a face to face conversation.

Just my 2p worth

Glyn

9th Jun 2011 4:10pm

CFB

Member Since: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Posts: 803

Glyn

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9th Jun 2011 5:21pm

JSG

Member Since: 12 Jul 2007
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 2412

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Stornoway Grey

Gotta agree with Glyn here.

The problem with a lot of the kit is battery life if used for everything and the problem that if it goes wrong nothing works.

The HTC was good for around 36 hours on a full charge if used as a phone and for a bit of email / web stuff. Always used ny iPod for music though.

The Sonim I've gone back to is lasting about 12 days with fairly heavy use on a single charge.

(and it has the Landrover logo on it)

John

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2011 Tdci 110 CSW XS

9th Jun 2011 5:23pm

BigMike

Member Since: 13 Jul 2010
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 2253

Glyn, you are no way under 30 mate

I agree though re facebook etc. the devils work and no mistake.

9th Jun 2011 7:16pm

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Member Since: 24 Dec 2010
Location: Newton Abbot Devon
Posts: 1195

Top Call Glyn

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9th Jun 2011 7:25pm

DefenderOfTheEarth

Member Since: 09 Nov 2010
Location: Cornwall, UK
Posts: 1304

Have to agree - all this "progress" has resulted in phones that do a lot. But can't do the basics very well. Defender 110XS SW gone... now VW California 180 4 Motion.

9th Jun 2011 7:50pm

Ads90

Member Since: 16 Jun 2008
Location: Cots-on-the-Wolds
Posts: 812

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BigMike wrote:

my only real criticism of it is the poor reception. I have an old nokia which I take into the hills and when the iphone has 1 bar of service, or none, the nokia usually has at least 3.

Mike - do you swap the sim card between phones, or have two cards?
Was wondering if I got an iPhone, could I swap the sim to my old trusty nokia dumbphone for nights on the mountain/beer etc? (Have a feeling the iPhone has a cut-down sim... but can you get adaptors)?

9th Jun 2011 8:36pm

spudfan

Member Since: 10 Sep 2007
Location: Co Donegal
Posts: 4709

Funnily enough I never got round to getting a mobile phone... 1982 88" 2.25 diesel
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9th Jun 2011 10:10pm

bpman

Member Since: 21 May 2008
Location: Oslo
Posts: 8069

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

iphone for me.

i had a blackberry - annoying piece of cr@p ... really complicated to configure,
also had palm trio .. nice, tough screen but out of date now
the htc / samsung's are nice but they are iphone copies / wannabe's

iphone just works - all you need is a 12v iphone car charger

A land rover phone would be a great backup ..

10th Jun 2011 5:06pm

Glynparry25

Member Since: 16 Feb 2009
Location: Miserable Midlands
Posts: 3015

BigMike wrote:
Glyn, you are no way under 30 mate

Not by much though. Party on the beach for my 30th I think.... You will all be welcome.

Glyn

10th Jun 2011 6:00pm

chiefstoker

Member Since: 11 Oct 2010
Location: Weston-super-Mud
Posts: 897

Glynparry25 wrote:
Check you lot out... I would consider myself being one of the younger members of the forum (Being under 30), and I use my mobile phone to, well, make phone calls and send text messages.

Down side to iphones and the like:

- Yes you can put all your music on it, but when you are playing it battery life is destroyed and nower days some airlines don't even let you use 'flight mode' electronics on airplanes.

- I have noticed that people with (mainly) iphones and HTC and Blueberrys tend to have their whole life on their phone. When it breaks/ gets lost, so does their life.

- Battery life..... I remember my old Ericsson t28 which would last a week with 30-45 mins talking every night and still have some life left in the battery. Now it seems that a week on standby is 'really really good' with most needing charging every day.

I have the following:
-Phone for calling and texting
-MP3 player for music
-Laptop for internet, games and movies

Phones and Facebook/ Twitter have taken over everyone's life. Whenever I go away for 6 months at a time I am unable to have a mobile phone so get the feeling of freedom from the whole 'I must have my iphone because I want to download a new song before I get home in the next 10 mins whilst updating my twitter with some bone statement which people don't give a damn about, LOL, PMSL, BRB, 10:4 Rubber ducky'....... But then again, I guess that probably makes me 'Sad'.

Besides £600 on a phone could be way more wisely spent in many other ways..... maybe even go down the pub with real people and have a face to face conversation.

Just my 2p worth

Glyn

Although saying that, I do have an all singing and dancing Samsung Galaxy/facebook/countless forums/emails/ebay etc etc etc that I need to check!! But I like Pub, and i like Drink, and i like laugh. Just last night I walked 2 miles to the shop with my ipod plugged in to my lug-holes and left my phone at home 2005 TD5 90 Hard Top

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14th Jun 2011 6:30am

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