Mobile Phone Accessories Review

Apple iPhone 3G Dock
Specifically designed for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S,
this dock gives it an elegant place to call home on a desk or in the living room

This is a great product for people who take a lot of photos! The idea is that you take photos then upload then via Bluetooth on to the image viewer before putting them on to a TV or video projector etc… The Bluetooth connection is the brilliant part of this, it means there are no cables and it’s a very neat and tidy device. You use an RCA cord to connect it to a TV or however else you want to output it. It has all the usual presentation settings like buttons to change picture or do it automatically every 4 or 8 seconds. You can also rotate images.

The image viewer is powered either by 4 AAA batteries or a Nokia charger and is compatible with PAL or NTSC; therefore, it can be used all over the world. One of the only downsides is its small memory size. It has a 3MB capacity which is about 65 SMALL pictures. These days with multi mega-pixel cameras photos are much larger so make sure you reduce the sizes before transferring otherwise you will only fit about 10 on it! It is compatible with the Nokia 3650 and 7650 as well as other phones supporting Bluetooth 1.1.

This is another great SIM product that has come on the market. Rather than it being a dual SIM reader and enabling 2 SIM cards to work in one phone, this enables you to read the data off your SIM and put it on to your PC. All you do is put your SIM card into it and then insert it into one of your USB ports, then you can download all of your contacts in a matter of seconds. If you need to put a lot of contacts on to your phone then I would recommend using this; you put them on to your computer when you can create, delete or edit entry’s using your computer keyboard rather than the phone one so it is much quicker. You can store up to 1,000 contacts from your SIM on to your PC.

It works very well and is easy to use, the only downside is that is only has a flash memory size of 512KB (as stated above this is still 1,000 contacts but it still could be much bigger). It is the kind of gadget you may only use once or twice but for the $12-$15 price, it is definitely worth it if you have many contacts to add or edit.

This is quite a handy little gadget! It enables you to use two SIM cards in your phone at once. This only fits the Siemens C35 but you can get them for most phones now. If you have for example a pay as you go SIM card and a contract SIM card then you can put them both in and simply switch the phone off and back on again and be using a different one. It is very useful rather that continually taking the back off your phone or having to carry two phones around. Another good use is instead of having a personal and a work phone, put both of these in a switch between the two.

It is worth investing in, definitely much cheaper than buying a new phone at around $20 (if not cheaper on places like eBay). It is very simple to use and even the most novice user would be able to work it out. It fits on to the back of your phone instead of the normal cover so that you can’t tell you have done anything from the outside. When dial SIM readers were first brought out a few years ago they had some teething problems which have all been fixed now and they work very well!

When you think of a Sony Ericsson phone, you generally think of the rust colored walkman phone that this accessory looks like it was made for! It fits the entire ‘w-series’, ‘k-series’ as well as a few others and costs around $30-$40, so it is a pretty decent value for money…or is it? Sure, it looks like it would fit in with the color scheme you have on your phone, but that’s about it! The speakers are far too small to make any difference to the sound quality coming out of your phone. There is plenty of treble, but absolutely zero bass.  So, you are stuck with the ‘tiny’ noise that you associate with mobile phone speakers.

I expect more from Sony, who tends to pride themselves on their music products. I thought they might come up with something better than this. The only advantage that they really have over the phone speaker is that they are stereo rather than mono. They use all the fancy terms like ‘Neodymium speakers’ etc… But, it doesn’t make them any good! They are powered through the phone and are quick to connect. I wouldn’t recommend buying them; I’d spend a bit more and get some externally powered speakers.  But, that’s just me!