After much deliberation I decided to go for the Nokia Advanced Car Kit, and I'm delighted with it. The kit includes a cradle which charges the phone, as well as patching it through to a hands free system, which includes a loudspeaker and microphone.
The clever bit comes with the Bluetooth element of the kit, which means that my mobile still connects even if I leave it in my pocket. It also works with my wife Katie's phone, which is different to mine, and will not fit in the holder.
The other plus point is that the phone holder can be easily changed if the phone is replaced, as there is a removable connector at the base of the holder. This has long been one of my main gripes about car kits - changing your phone meant changing your compete car kit.
An unforeseen problem was with my car - apparently the Volvo XC90 has a wiring harness that uses a multiplexing unit. Instead of lots of wires there is fibre harness that sends signals to which unit has to be powered. This means that without the kit to "break into" this from Volvo, the kit has to be fitted with its own speaker, instead of the sound going through the sound system. And Volvo won't supply them, or at least the guy fitting my kit said so.
The sooner car manufacturers get it together with car communications and hi-fi the better! I hear BMW are producing a car with an Ipod docking bay - come on Volvo, lets have some help with this one!
Nokia - Nokia Advanced Car Kit CK-7W
The clever bit comes with the Bluetooth element of the kit, which means that my mobile still connects even if I leave it in my pocket. It also works with my wife Katie's phone, which is different to mine, and will not fit in the holder.
The other plus point is that the phone holder can be easily changed if the phone is replaced, as there is a removable connector at the base of the holder. This has long been one of my main gripes about car kits - changing your phone meant changing your compete car kit.
An unforeseen problem was with my car - apparently the Volvo XC90 has a wiring harness that uses a multiplexing unit. Instead of lots of wires there is fibre harness that sends signals to which unit has to be powered. This means that without the kit to "break into" this from Volvo, the kit has to be fitted with its own speaker, instead of the sound going through the sound system. And Volvo won't supply them, or at least the guy fitting my kit said so.
The sooner car manufacturers get it together with car communications and hi-fi the better! I hear BMW are producing a car with an Ipod docking bay - come on Volvo, lets have some help with this one!
Nokia - Nokia Advanced Car Kit CK-7W
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