Love kite buggying , new model army , The Fall , Bitter ,VW campers,the late John Peel and vegetaria...
Love kite buggying , new model army , The Fall , Bitter ,VW campers,the late John Peel and vegetarians. Do not define my life by my Job. Have a weird sence of humour, best described as a Anarco cyber hippy.
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The problem with writing a review about a phone holder which only holds the blandest of the Nokia range is that you soon jump through the Stargate in to a world of boring facts, because lets be honest it's a phone holder. Imaging the lion the witch and the wardrobe (CS Lewis's clumsy allegory on Christianity) if rather than finding a magical world of talking Lions you ended up in Tipton on a wet Wednesday and your bumped in to Clive from Accounts who races model cars at the weekend, he is a nice guy and you would get closer but he has that smell that 46 year old men have, the ones that still live with there mothers, the ones Alan Bennet always writes about.
So the holder is pretty dull to look at, it's got that black plastic with a tinge of silver just to add class look about it. The phone slots in, and charges, the snag is that after about 4 months it does not charge, as the location pins are very bendy. However the phone has never fallen out of the holder and caused a control interface issue (phone falls under brake, you brake and the phone dies, or the stray goat dies, or you get a little scared that you could not brake easily)
The holder can be wired through the car stereo and either uses the speakers of the stereo, or you can have a supplementary speaker, which is the option I took. So rather than sound like Graham from aforementioned Alan Bennet play I will describe in dynamic terms what happens when a person calls you and the Nokia is in the holder. This adds a little suspense to the narrative, and also runs though the functions without making me sound like a remote control model enthusiast.
The Phone rings, and the car stereo mutes, you then either hit the remote button (which is also the volume control) or hit the answer button on your phone. You then talk to the other person who will shout, "are you driving it's a terrible signal, I can barley hear you". The reason is because the Mic is rubbish and you have to lean towards it. And if it's a particularly hot or cold day your heater/aircon will also wipe out your voice thus rendering it even worse to use. Once you have stopping shouting loudly you can either hit the button or disconnect using the phone. The stereo then unmutes and you realise that you missed the last 3 minutes of the Archers (will Helen use her cheese making skills to pull herself out of her depression, and thus be saved by cheese' s : you will never know). Then after 15 or so minutes the phone will finish charging and for no reason the stereo mutes and the phone flashes a Battery Charged screen,,,Great ?
There is also a option which allows you to have a little glass mounted aerial , a very exciting bumper mounted ( on the inside not the outside ) or you could also have a shark fin like on BMW's and Saxo's , but people already think i am a tosser so i opted for a nice glass mount.
There is also a blue tooth function which allows you to use the phone un-holstered, I tried it once but could not really see the point, sure it worked but they would have been better spending the money of making pins which did not bend.
Happily the kit is covered on the Orange contract, so when it breaks they come and fix it, and lets be honest its still better than wearing a ear piece, you are NOT BORG you are dicks.
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