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Title: New mobile phone,new security tools.
Post by: DorsetBoy on Oct 14, 2010, 13:00:54
Just had to get a new mobile phone, not something I use much but need a simple phone to keep in touch with school.

Replaced an aging Vodafone something with the Samsung GT-E2550.  Does all I need and more and while looking through the book just now I find it has an SOS system which allows a pre written message to be sent out to selected numbers ,this is tripped by 4 presses of a key. It also has a similar alert system that sends out a message to several phones of your choice if anyone changes the Sim card. So if you lose your phone/it gets stolen and a tealeaf tries to use it a message is tripped and a tracker is activated which identifies the location of the phone.
Title: Re: New mobile phone,new security tools.
Post by: Rik on Oct 14, 2010, 13:01:40
Sounds good, Dorset. :thumb:
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Post by: Simon on Oct 14, 2010, 13:41:38
Indeed.  I've never found Samsung phones particularly intuitive, but that sounds a very good idea.
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Post by: Rik on Oct 14, 2010, 15:40:42
What do you think to their build quality? A friend of mine seems to have had a lot of bad luck with them - though that may be attributed to a lot of beer. ;)
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Post by: pctech on Oct 14, 2010, 17:39:51
I had an A800 for about 1 week several years ago, took it back as it would not hold onto a signal.

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Post by: Rik on Oct 14, 2010, 17:43:17
That was one of the problems he had, the other was they kept falling apart - though I think that was where the beer came in.
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Post by: pctech on Oct 14, 2010, 17:45:14
That's why I dislike plastic phones.

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Post by: Rik on Oct 14, 2010, 17:49:36
Skagen have started using carbon fibre dials, perhaps phone manufacturers will follow?
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Post by: pctech on Oct 14, 2010, 17:50:57
Errr yeah, at a price I bet.
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Post by: Rik on Oct 14, 2010, 17:55:39
Undoubtedly, but they should still be cheaper than the gold ones, Mitch.
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Post by: pctech on Oct 14, 2010, 17:57:31
It's always interesting to see what they come up with next.
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Post by: Rik on Oct 14, 2010, 17:58:11
In my experience, it's generally excuses. ;)