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Hi All,
I have got a t-mobile mda smart phone operating on windows mobile.
I have had this phone for about a year now and would not be without it!
i use microsoft office on my home pc so as jobs come in through the daytime my wife puts then on the pc then all i have to do is plug the phone in that night and bobs your ancle they are there on my phone.
It has blue tooth, gps, internet and all the bells and whistle also unlike other phones it has a decent battery life 3 days without a charge.
it is under contract, i pay £45 a month for this i get £180 worth of calls and texts pic messages ect, i also get unlimited internet access.
As i said i have had it a year now and i am on it all day and have never exceeded my price plan to the amazment of all around me.
I personally think it is the best deal on the market at the mo having looked into lots of other packages at the time.
I droped my phone back in july while the flood were going on and needed a replacement.
T-mobile had a new phone to me with-in 12 hours delivered to my door!!
Now that is service.
If you call t-mobile from your phone you get an instant answer from the dedicated biz team no listening to green sleeves.
In all a great phone!.

Regards
stuart

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Nokia E70 mobile phone.

Same size as a normal mobile but opens up to reveal a qwerty keyboard.

Alon dictaphone software allows you to record customers details during a phone call, I record there name, postcode, address, tel, make model fault and appointment details.
After the call I rename the recording with the date and time of the visit and first half of postcode. ex ‘08041610WA7-0151****666.AMR’.
Putting the year, month date then time in this order means the jobs will be displayed in sequence.
The dictaphone software displays 9 files at once so I can usually see where and when the jobs for a particular day are.
TomTom software for navigation, just setup an Itinary for that day starting and finishing with your home address.
There’s a brilliant peice of PC software called ‘tyre’ that can display a Tomtom ‘itn’ itinary file, it shows the route on google maps and also calculated the total distance.

Handbase database software allows you to log each job as you go along, you can include any kind of detail such as report, cash or chq, job active complete or cancelled, amount, parts used etc.
The database exports to an excel speadsheet at the end of the day, week month or year depending on how often you do your bookkeeping.

I’ve been using this system for the last 18months and having all the info at hand anytime of the day make life a lot easier.
If a previous cust calls I can usually get the job details on display during the call so I know what was repaired the last time.

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Sorry but You cant beat good old pen and paper pad 😀 , sorry you can keep all this other stuff, just flick through a pad of jobs change dates ….times in out extra…… phone numbers given…. directions to job…….. ,etc…..etc…..no waiting to load, simple,……just works. ❓

canufixit

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hey was just looking through the threads and came upon i wrote a while back i ended up with a htc s710 through bt, i ordered 2 of them as the calls to any bt mobile are free of charge 😆 anyway this has windows 6 and iv solved my problem of not having a pen and paper handy when im out and about it has voice recorder included 😛 also has slide out quert keyboard for text and email, i have all my emails sent to the phone and also if anyone is interested as im a 1 man band and taking calls from a landline is difficult i have perminant call divert set up with bt to the mobile and capped at 25 p, most calls i think are only costling about 10p, (1 plan)not bad really as most calls i get are a booking for work.
its a lovely little gadget i play with it all day long 😳 also has a calander with reminders day before and gprs, although not got round to using it yet,

simonb

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