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Xda Orbit 2 Car Kit

March 03, 2008, 12:48 pm GMT

Neville, is finding the car kit ‘impossible’. Have a look at his video to see why.

“Last Monday, I received an Xda Orbit 2 mobile phone courtesy of mobile operator O2 and their ad agency VCCP.So I’ve been playing with this gadget all week, trying it out mostly with wifi. It’s very nice indeed.As a phone, it does what all phones do (let you make and receive calls) and it does that job pretty well in the few calls I’ve made, probably testament to O2’s good cellular network coverage.Not received any calls yet as I haven’t widely advertised the number :)

As I mentioned in my initial post on my main blog, I’ll be posting thoughts about the Xda Orbit 2 here as and when I have some.

Today I do and it’s to do with an accessory for the phone that I found pretty useless, never mind extremely irritating.

Yesterday I drove into London and decided to try out CoPilot Live 7, the satellite navigation application that comes with the phone.

It’s good and I’ll have a post soon with thoughts on that. This post, though, is to do with the fixing kit you put in your car where you put the phone in a cradle so you can see it and interact with it from your driving position.

Assembling this car kit is impossible. Two of the parts just will not mate. I must have had a dozen attempts to try and do it, all to no avail.

This is one of those situations where you wonder if you’re just an idiot in not being able to figure it out or if the product is badly designed and/or made.

I think the product is badly designed as surely it should be simpler than this.

What exactly is this about? Take a look at this little video I made and posted to YouTube.

If I’m not doing it right, please let me know!”

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