Next Gen PDA'S

[Captain Scarlet]

Gives them plenty of time to whittle down the 110,000 workforce down to 74,000

When we go to tues-sat delivery that's when the workforce will go to 74,000

[aposter]

Gives them plenty of time to whittle down the 110,000 workforce down to 74,000

When we go to tues-sat delivery that's when the workforce will go to 74,000

when they scrap our T&C (the day after the legall binding runs out) and we are all on a minimum wage zero hour contract

[framusjsx]

5 years?

They'll be out of date by then and ordering the next ones!

[clashcityrocker]

when they scrap our T&C (the day after the legall binding runs out)

I wouldn't have any faith in anything legally binding.
The AFG agreement was always going to be null and void in the event of a threat to the USO.
Moya has been telling everyone that the USO is under threat. The agreement is unlikely to run its course.

[OnAFlyer]

So we still have to lug that brick around for another year then?

Nope - possibly 6 years

Can you seriously imagine still using that sh!te in 2020? We'd be a laughing stock

[SpacePhoenix]

No chance in hell of our PDAs lasting another 6 years (does Intermec even manufacture the batteries anymore?)

[DGP1]

No chance in hell of our PDAs lasting another 6 years (does Intermec even manufacture the batteries anymore?)

http://www.intermec.com/products/cmptrcn3/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They stopped making the units this year so I would suppose they will continue the batteries for a while, whether RM would actually spend the money to buy any is something totally different.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

So we still have to lug that brick around for another year then?

Nope - possibly 6 years

Can you seriously imagine still using that sh!te in 2020? We'd be a laughing stock

I know, they are embarrasing now, but the 5 year rollout from Autumn 2015 is in the press release.


By then hermes etc will all be on a tablet, but unlike us taking them to survive, they'll use them to deliver.

[maninred]

No chance in hell of our PDAs lasting another 6 years (does Intermec even manufacture the batteries anymore?)

http://www.intermec.com/products/cmptrcn3/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They stopped making the units this year so I would suppose they will continue the batteries for a while, whether RM would actually spend the money to buy any is something totally different.

I contacted IT regarding a PDA with a knackered battery and they sent a replacement (it took 3 days to arrive, used to be next day). Gave the replacement PDA a full charge and issued it the following day. It lasted 50 minutes before the battery ctitical message started. This is not the first time.

I don't think they have many (if any) new batteries and are just randomly sending PDA's up and down the country.

[DGP1]

No chance in hell of our PDAs lasting another 6 years (does Intermec even manufacture the batteries anymore?)

http://www.intermec.com/products/cmptrcn3/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They stopped making the units this year so I would suppose they will continue the batteries for a while, whether RM would actually spend the money to buy any is something totally different.

I contacted IT regarding a PDA with a knackered battery and they sent a replacement (it took 3 days to arrive, used to be next day). Gave the replacement PDA a full charge and issued it the following day. It lasted 50 minutes before the battery ctitical message started. This is not the first time.

I don't think they have many (if any) new batteries and are just randomly sending PDA's up and down the country.

You're correct but they don't change over the batteries, they take an old PDA that they have been sent and then send it you, it's a very poor system when the best solution would be to just send a new battery.

[maninred]

No chance in hell of our PDAs lasting another 6 years (does Intermec even manufacture the batteries anymore?)

http://www.intermec.com/products/cmptrcn3/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They stopped making the units this year so I would suppose they will continue the batteries for a while, whether RM would actually spend the money to buy any is something totally different.

I contacted IT regarding a PDA with a knackered battery and they sent a replacement (it took 3 days to arrive, used to be next day). Gave the replacement PDA a full charge and issued it the following day. It lasted 50 minutes before the battery ctitical message started. This is not the first time.

I don't think they have many (if any) new batteries and are just randomly sending PDA's up and down the country.

You're correct but they don't change over the batteries, they take an old PDA that they have been sent and then send it you, it's a very poor system when the best solution would be to just send a new battery.

Yes, I used to just put in a order for half a dozen new batteries and send the duff ones back. It used to be a good system.

[fly-catchers]

I am back to using pen and paper- like the old days! No PDA I have been issued with this week has lasted to the first time its needed. Either a dieing/dead battery or endless buffering with those swirling black dots and 30 mins before the deliver or undelivered screen disappears. Total crap the lot of them!

[SpacePhoenix]

RM are going to have to bite the bullet and buy some new batteries as the current ones won't last until the new PDAs role out

[janitor]

The problem isn't just the battery, the changing pins on the pda wear and don't make proper contact with the charging pins in van or charging cabinet,had to reseat the pda to get it to start charging.

[Krafty]

Let's hope this time they are customer tested before we get them, and by that, I mean not designing them so that the customer signs when the pda is upside down - nine times out of ten the customer will turn it the 'right way' round and then sign.

I have given up telling them that it was the correct way when I handed it to them