Taxi Driver Online

whats it cost?

why is my base short of PDA's? are PDA's bought or rented?

_________________
Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Go on grandad poke a bear with a big stick. Ive no doubt nidge will advise you of any pitfalls on mercury

yeah, but where nige lives/works theyve no phone signal...

_________________
Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

I didn't ask the price. An android phone can be used as a PDA on some systems.

_________________
Grandad,

cant be a fortune can they?

_________________
Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

When we got our first PDA's we were told that if they were lost or stolen we'd have to cover the £600 replacement fee. I asked why £600 when I had the exact same model from PCWorld for £200 ? 'That's how much we're charged for them, it's the cost of the installed software apparantely' the office told me.

what cobblers.....

_________________
Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

It won't do everything that anyone wants and your right it is over complicated. It's OK showing people some software working pre installed on a PDA and a computer, get it out in the field and it'll soon feck up.

I don't care what they had to say about me, I can lay straight in bed at night.

That's just it Nidge he didn't say a word. I tried to bait him but he wasn't taking it. He just looked me in the eye and smiled. That was more disappointing that the product.

_________________
Grandad,

Who was it....it wasn't Moore was it?

£600? Are they plated in gold??

I didn't get his name.

_________________
Grandad,

We are in the process of swapping from smart to android now (due to windows xp loosing its support ). And we can buy them of mercury at £150 per unit with craddle/charger and ready to go or we can lease 13 units at a cost of £1.30 per unit per week so roughly £20 quid a week and there upgraded every 2 to 3 years. Grandad what system do yous use ?.

Until very recently we have been using pen and paper. But we are in the process of evaluating a computerised booking and dispatch system. The Auto dispatch requires the driver to have a device in the car, obviously, but this device can be an android phone that is available from many outlets for around £35.00 and a data package which can be a standard sim with data or, I am told, that I can get a data only sim for around £3.00 per month. At the moment I am using my contract Samsung galaxy S4 mini on my call text and data package. The data limit is 500 meg per month and so far since last Saturday when I turned the system on I have used a little over 7 meg.

_________________
Grandad,

I think thats the way most dispatch system are going now. Ours ( mercury incase you didnt know ha ha) is just a mobile with a app on really that is linked to our sysyem only via a data sim number. Anyway do you want me to recomend you to mercury and we will both ged a free pda pmsl.