Old mobiles. Quite possibly Nokia.

You need a CackBerry, then.

One of the redeeming features is the track-ball.

Which gets jammed up with pocket fluff after a bit if people don't holster them IME. Especially the pearl.

Mike P

Holsters are a bit ginger beer, though.

just a bit???

Mike P

Dunno what everyone else is doing but that;s what it does for my PC and laptop as well. Just shows up as a 'removeable drive' when connected. Not that I ever bother because Bluetooth, in all it's form is, IME s*it. I just use a USB cable - as my Nokia just takes the standard sized small usb thing and I always have one of those plugged into the PC permanently for cameras etc.

I assume you've installed some driver software to make this happen.

I've never managed to get a PC to just 'see' a phone and know what to do with it.

I push the dongle in, click browse files or something and it all just happens. AFAIR I haven't installed anything, but nor have I used it for ages anyway so I can't really remember heh.

Strangely I've got a mint Nokia 5110 - it's never been out of the leather case - and a new unused car kit sans aerial I need to get shot of. I'm not a heavy mobile user but wanted one with a camera. And just bought one this week.

Just to give you all a laugh I bought a Nokia N95 off Ebay. 'New unwanted upgrade' Paid about 2/3rds the new price. And it's a fake.

That's also why I'm looking for an ancient phone to use in the Rangie hands-free kit. Won't have voice dial or whatever, but if it actually does the job then I'll just divert calls to it - free minutes can be a wonderful thing.

After a quick googlefest, it turns out there were 28 different factory mobile phone set-ups in the E38, and I can't find any factory ones for the P38.

I was thinking the old Motorola 7200 style things might have been the one, but they're nowhere near big enough to fill the bloody cradle. Cradle does have two mounting choices for different size phones, but it's working out what phones they are that's irritating.

I hate it when I find stuff like this in cars. I *could* just ring the previous keeper who had it for 12 years, but he's incredibly likely to be very ex-directory. From a manor house somewhere near Glasgow it turns out.

A fake???

Mate of mine bought a box of bricks thinking it was a new HD video, but how the hell do you buy a fake phone? And what do you get when you do?

Have you tried using a less pikey version of Windows XP?

Works fine here. Main problem is that things are in a mess here and I can't find the box the phone came in, which contains the appropriate lead, and that my 4-port USB hub is full up, so I have to unplug something......update.......one of those 4 is a Nokia USB charger, so that can go in the "random chargers and adapters" drawer.

It isn't something that usually bothers me - somebody holding a BlackBerry. Somebody trying to make out that they're important by having a loud conversation is far more annoying. :)

Yes: me too. My 6310i was nicked on the underground many years ago.

The last time I looked at the 6310i, they were relatively expensive - mostly because people wanted them for car kits... :)

But I don't currently have a decent car kit for it - the Nokia CK7W is incompatible with Blackberries, and with the new cars having to be ordered soon, we're not replacing the kits at the moment - so I'm on one of the cheapies that clips onto the sun visor.

I'm not talking about using a cable here. This is a Bluetooth issue.

Oi! I resemble that comment.....

On a more serious note, I didn't really want a Blackberry when I was told I was getting one - but we got Pearls which are far more 'normal phone' looking than the rest of the range.

I've never understood why, 'cos the converters to use a modern phone on a CARK91 aren't that expensive.

Mind you, I ripped the CARK91 out of the 156 as Katie has no use for it.