Mobile Phone Accessories

* The old hands free CARK Kit . .

Advantages: Very good sound reproduction, always set up ready for use.
Disadvantages: Needs an external anrenna, plus fitting. Dated nowadays.

...kit does. It holds your Nokia phone securely in your car, van, truck, to your dashboard or wherever you like. It trickle charges your mobile battery. It provides a mike and proper speaker, both separate to, and better than, the mobile phone's original ones. This particular kit is specific to the following models:- Nokia 6310i, Nokia 6310, Nokia 6210, Nokia 6110, Nokia 6150 Other kits are based on this, and can be found for many other mobile ...
...little out of date, (as are the phones is it made for) but the principle is brilliant, you have a phone holder that gives genuine hands free operation, with sound that is virtually as good as a radio. Your own voice is picked up and transmitted with the same clarity. The holder itself is very good, if a little large by modern standards, it holds the phone safely and securely, whilst recharging the phone battery. There is no vibration, and the phone ...

smudgeybabes 25.02.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Nokia CARK 91 Hands-free kit

Motorola S9. The Curate's Egg of Headsets

Advantages: First Class 'Hands free' performance Great stereo effect
Disadvantages: Badly let down by drop ous whilst on the move.

...Bluetooth connection between Phone ( Motorola V8) and headset. This connection delivered a strong signal to my ears and made my play lists ( mostly light classical music with a few of Sinatra's offerings mixed in) really come alive. Stereo effect has a very slight bias towards the left hand speaker, but I'm putting that down to my 69 years old Mk. I lug 'oles, not performing as they used to! General Performance. Overall very good. PROVIDING one ...
...whilst on the move, Motorola needs to have serious second thoughts. "Hands Free" When set up to automatically receive incoming calls it comes into its own as a fine instrument, given the odd vagaries of Motorola's V8 Voice call software,... " Say a command or name", then when one does this, the software replies "Did you say ******'s MOBEEL?" Answering "Yes" gets one connected. Answering "No" switches the strongly American accented voice off. . ...

abueloeddie 23.07.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Motorola S9 Bluetooth Headset

Jibber-Jabber-Jabra, just gotta have ya

Advantages: Good call quality, battery life and keeps you legal
Disadvantages: Can't but help look a bit daft behind your ear

...Vodafone offered me a free Jabra BT205 when I upgrade my phone a couple of years back, it was difficult to say no, and I very soon came to use the thing all the time. The 205 was a decent little headset and something I used frequently when going on longer journeys (which I do almost every weekend during the winter to play hockey). It was on one such outing that I managed to lose my little 205, so just before Christmas I bought a Jabra BT500v. Not ...
...any of the instructions for the 205 and they look very similar in pictures online (having googled 'Jabra') and I assumed the one I lost was the exact same thing. In fact they look completely different! FIRST IMPRESSIONS AND SET-UP When it arrived I charged it up, paired it with my SEK800i with no trouble, and it sat on the shelf for a couple of days until I came to use it. The very different look compared to the 205 still didn't really register ...

Nobby1974 14.06.2007 · Read Full Review
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Review of JABRA BT500v Headset

Safer calling in the car

Advantages: Easy to set up and use, small unintrusive unit
Disadvantages: No caller ID screen

...obviously don't need to be Sony Ericsson (any bluetooth enabled handset should be compatible). The unit could also be used at you desk / at home as it is very small and sits well on a flat surface. Included in the box was a mains and car charger so it's easy to keep charge topped up. I paid £59.99 from Carphonewarehouse which I think is good value for money, and well worth spending to avoid the increased penalties for illegal use of mobiles in ...

darren0710 28.02.2007 · Read Full Review
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Review of Sony Ericsson HCB-100 Bluetooth Car Speakerphone

Sony Ericsson HBH-PV703 low price, easy to use ,but......

Advantages: low price,easy to connect,very good microphone.
Disadvantages: connection lost, need to adjust volume.

...easy to connect .With my Sony Ericsson w901i , just turn on your bluetooth function and everything's done, all the passcodes or any normal steps that needed to get through with other headset was eliminated . I tried calling my wife from a noisy shopping mall and she can hear me with no efforts,amazing microphone for a headset with this price range. But after a while some dispointment comes to light. The connection lost can be expected within less ...
...charged. You'll need to adjust the volume on almost every call, well I understand there is no automatic volume adjustment on this model, but the problem is if you really want to here every word , you'll have to turn it on a little louder than you want to , the noise quality is not so good so you have to compensate with the higher volumn, which sometimes become annoying. If you just need a headset to make a real short conversation in your car and ...

kayyak 15.06.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of Sony Ericsson Bluetooth HBH-PV703 Headset