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Title: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: taxi1990 on August 10, 2020, 10:41:13 am
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Horse on August 10, 2020, 11:04:11 am
Samsung galaxy s10e,  on a bill. Worth a grand apparently.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Cool Boola on August 10, 2020, 12:02:37 pm
Samsong A40...200 brick with free Galaxy wearable last year ...does it all and cheap at the price...O YA
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Theoneandonly on August 10, 2020, 01:00:14 pm
iPhone 11, it's nice
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Panel on August 10, 2020, 01:01:02 pm
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: taxi1990 on August 10, 2020, 01:13:54 pm
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.


in Dublin? asking to be robbed. a friend of mine had his Ray bans swiped from his head by a young lad on a bicycle in Dublin.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Bob Shillin on August 10, 2020, 01:59:43 pm
Galaxy Note 9 for work, unlimited everything with Virgin €25 per month.
Galaxy 6 Edge personal phone, Tesco €20 per month 20GB, and more mins and texts than I use.
Would like to switch both to Vodafone, but the right plans are too dear.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Shallowhal on August 10, 2020, 02:03:43 pm
Samsung A70,bill pay,€30 per month from Tesco....didn't go with the tickle yer balls add on.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on August 10, 2020, 02:24:46 pm
have a purple note 9 myself.
deadly yoke.
had a white note 4 for a long time till it packed in.
I like a big yoke to look at because my eyesight is scaldy.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Theoneandonly on August 10, 2020, 02:52:40 pm
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.

Guilty
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: markmiwurdz on August 10, 2020, 05:23:34 pm
Galaxy A7 which I bought for about 300 blips,special offer on Eir a couple of months back sim only of 10 Euro a month which lasts for 12 months and will be 20 Euro a month thereafter,unlimited everything.

Was paying about 30 Euro a month on 3.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Panel on August 10, 2020, 06:07:07 pm
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.

Guilty

Not that they’d be interested in my 3 year old iPhone 6 with a smashed screen but there ya go.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: mgb1979 on August 10, 2020, 06:18:35 pm
Galaxy Note 9 for work, unlimited everything with Virgin €25 per month.
Galaxy 6 Edge personal phone, Tesco €20 per month 20GB, and more mins and texts than I use.
Would like to switch both to Vodafone, but the right plans are too dear.
Bob. You could move the personal phone to Voda for €20 a month payg..... Unlimited any network calls and texts and 10GB of data. If the 10GB is enough for you you are getting a much better network than Tesco for the same price.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Bob Shillin on August 10, 2020, 06:30:57 pm
Thanks, but couldn't be doing with topping up, 10Gb not enough
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: taxi1990 on August 10, 2020, 06:32:20 pm
I haven't topped up my personal phone in over 2 years. I only use it if im going out. I divert my calls from the taxi phone to another taxi mates phone, then bring the 2 phones out with me, if any of my mates want me they ring my personal phone, if im looking for them i ring them off my taxi phone.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: MK on August 10, 2020, 06:40:01 pm
Thanks, but couldn't be doing with topping up, 10Gb not enough
They have 20gb data, for 20 euro. Smart extra. Vodafone is a Much better network.


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Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Rat Catcher on August 10, 2020, 09:00:44 pm
Depends where you are. Vodafone is shit in parts of Carlow and Wicklow and non existent in the erm's gaff.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Shallowhal on August 10, 2020, 09:16:11 pm
Depends where you are. Vodafone is shit in parts of Carlow and Wicklow and non existent in the erm's gaff.

I thought the FBI cut all communication to Ermys boxroom cos of all his anti evertin rhetoric!!
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Taxi driver42 on August 10, 2020, 09:45:12 pm
Eir is cheap
Went in to buy new Samsung nothing in stock the virus halted factory production everywhere
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Jonno on August 10, 2020, 11:13:27 pm
Galaxy Note 9 for work, unlimited everything with Virgin €25 per month.
Galaxy 6 Edge personal phone, Tesco €20 per month 20GB, and more mins and texts than I use.
Would like to switch both to Vodafone, but the right plans are too dear.
Bob. You could move the personal phone to Voda for €20 a month payg..... Unlimited any network calls and texts and 10GB of data. If the 10GB is enough for you you are getting a much better network than Tesco for the same price.
Tesco and 3 are one and the same.

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Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Wingnut on August 10, 2020, 11:40:51 pm
Oneplus 7t grand little phone.

https://www.oneplus.com/ie/7t (https://www.oneplus.com/ie/7t)
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Shallowhal on August 10, 2020, 11:51:19 pm
Galaxy Note 9 for work, unlimited everything with Virgin €25 per month.
Galaxy 6 Edge personal phone, Tesco €20 per month 20GB, and more mins and texts than I use.
Would like to switch both to Vodafone, but the right plans are too dear.
Bob. You could move the personal phone to Voda for €20 a month payg..... Unlimited any network calls and texts and 10GB of data. If the 10GB is enough for you you are getting a much better network than Tesco for the same price.
Tesco and 3 are one and the same.

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There are....but for some reason i found 3 coverage shite and their customer service was horrendous.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: watty on August 11, 2020, 09:12:09 am
I haven't topped up my personal phone in over 2 years. I only use it if im going out. I divert my calls from the taxi phone to another taxi mates phone, then bring the 2 phones out with me, if any of my mates want me they ring my personal phone, if im looking for them i ring them off my taxi phone.
A lot of the Chinese phones have 2 SIM slots nowadays.  Might save you carrying 2 phones around and looking like a drug dealer  :P  :P :P
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Theoneandonly on August 11, 2020, 11:22:30 am
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.

Guilty

Not that they’d be interested in my 3 year old iPhone 6 with a smashed screen but there ya go.

I meant myself my holder/phone is placed just inside the driver window
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Panel on August 11, 2020, 01:42:14 pm
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.

Guilty

Not that they’d be interested in my 3 year old iPhone 6 with a smashed screen but there ya go.

I meant myself my holder/phone is placed just inside the driver window

I get ya. Seen it one day being done fella at a set of lights, scummer on a pushbike, hand inside the window and he’s gone, poor cunt was in traffic so he couldn’t even drive after him.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Jonno on August 11, 2020, 01:49:33 pm
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.

Guilty

Not that they’d be interested in my 3 year old iPhone 6 with a smashed screen but there ya go.

I meant myself my holder/phone is placed just inside the driver window

I get ya. Seen it one day being done fella at a set of lights, scummer on a pushbike, hand inside the window and he’s gone, poor cunt was in traffic so he couldn’t even drive after him.
Anyone else download the Gold Radio app? Great stuff. It's got something for everyone. Dedicated 70s 80s and 90s stations, news stations etc. It's essentially the ones that you have on your sky music channels - Heart, LBC etc etc. Well worth a TRY. A lot better than some of the tripe being churned out here.

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Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: taxi1990 on August 11, 2020, 10:19:03 pm
I haven't topped up my personal phone in over 2 years. I only use it if im going out. I divert my calls from the taxi phone to another taxi mates phone, then bring the 2 phones out with me, if any of my mates want me they ring my personal phone, if im looking for them i ring them off my taxi phone.
A lot of the Chinese phones have 2 SIM slots nowadays.  Might save you carrying 2 phones around and looking like a drug dealer  :P  :P :P



My phones don't hold 2 sims. good point though about looking like a dealer.  C:-)
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Jonno on August 11, 2020, 10:28:33 pm
I haven't topped up my personal phone in over 2 years. I only use it if im going out. I divert my calls from the taxi phone to another taxi mates phone, then bring the 2 phones out with me, if any of my mates want me they ring my personal phone, if im looking for them i ring them off my taxi phone.
A lot of the Chinese phones have 2 SIM slots nowadays.  Might save you carrying 2 phones around and looking like a drug dealer  [emoji14]  [emoji14] [emoji14]



My phones don't hold 2 sims. good point though about looking like a dealer.  C:-)
I have a Samsung and a howaya and both have a double sim tray

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Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: taxi1990 on August 12, 2020, 12:01:44 am
I haven't topped up my personal phone in over 2 years. I only use it if im going out. I divert my calls from the taxi phone to another taxi mates phone, then bring the 2 phones out with me, if any of my mates want me they ring my personal phone, if im looking for them i ring them off my taxi phone.
A lot of the Chinese phones have 2 SIM slots nowadays.  Might save you carrying 2 phones around and looking like a drug dealer  [emoji14]  [emoji14] [emoji14]



My phones don't hold 2 sims. good point though about looking like a dealer.  C:-)
I have a Samsung and a howaya and both have a double sim tray

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I must double check. I usually don't use all the features my phones have.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Jonno on August 12, 2020, 12:02:51 am
I haven't topped up my personal phone in over 2 years. I only use it if im going out. I divert my calls from the taxi phone to another taxi mates phone, then bring the 2 phones out with me, if any of my mates want me they ring my personal phone, if im looking for them i ring them off my taxi phone.
A lot of the Chinese phones have 2 SIM slots nowadays.  Might save you carrying 2 phones around and looking like a drug dealer  [emoji14]  [emoji14] [emoji14]



My phones don't hold 2 sims. good point though about looking like a dealer.  C:-)
I have a Samsung and a howaya and both have a double sim tray

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I must double check. I usually don't use all the features my phones have.
I still only use one sim. It's plenty. At least for me.

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Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Jack Meoff on August 12, 2020, 10:11:56 am
iPhone 11 Pro Max
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Cool Boola on August 14, 2020, 11:35:06 am
um
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Post by: Theoneandonly on August 14, 2020, 12:02:32 pm
cum

fixed
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: C5 on August 17, 2020, 03:34:42 am
Nokia 2, 3 years old dropped a few times getting out of the car, not a bother on it plus the battery is holding out well. My non work phone is a Nokia Lumia 950 windows, nearly 7 years old everything fine except no more updates not supported by what's app and the other social media yokes, but it has a mighty camera I can text and call use youtube, works for me.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Belker on August 17, 2020, 04:45:02 am
Mine was a 110 euro smart phone I bought 3 years ago, great phone,use it for calls, texts, google maps, youtube etc . I honestly don't think you need to be spending much more on one in the taxi game. The main reason I wouldn't buy an expensive phone is you may as well have a bundle of money lying on your dash, it is just asking to be robbed if you are ever mugged. no mugger would want my 3 year old phone.


I’ve seen some very expensive handsets in full display in taxis, usually stopped at a set of lights with the window down.

Guilty

Not that they’d be interested in my 3 year old iPhone 6 with a smashed screen but there ya go.

I meant myself my holder/phone is placed just inside the driver window

That is where Ratcatcher's last phone was snatched from.
Ever since he told the story I have been more astute when parked/ranked up.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Belker on August 17, 2020, 04:55:52 am
I have an iphone 8 or 9 (can't remember) but big screen, cost 150 notes outlay on a 24 month vodafone business plan fer 48 a month.
I know it's expensive but it does what it sez on the tin.
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Theoneandonly on August 17, 2020, 04:20:12 pm
I have an iphone 8 or 9 (can't remember) but big screen, cost 150 notes outlay on a 24 month vodafone business plan fer 48 a month.
I know it's expensive but it does what it sez on the tin.

I know you're technically in "business" but do you really need the business plan? might be worth downgrading to a lower plan with less "free stuff" you probably don't use
Title: Re: What kind of phone do you have?
Post by: Belker on August 17, 2020, 08:09:18 pm
I have an iphone 8 or 9 (can't remember) but big screen, cost 150 notes outlay on a 24 month vodafone business plan fer 48 a month.
I know it's expensive but it does what it sez on the tin.

I know you're technically in "business" but do you really need the business plan? might be worth downgrading to a lower plan with less "free stuff" you probably don't use
I don't know Martin, the Business account that I have is continued on from my last job in the bookie game (when the company used to pay the bills) but it still works today and as a business customer you do get a superior helpline service.
Any time I ring them they blind me with science, but it works and works well so I just pay 'em fer a simple life.