Nokia Speakerphone HF-310 Review

Nokia have always produced fantastic fitted car kits but their plug & play car kits have been good, but not really anything to shout about. The Nokia HF-310 and Nokia HF-510 have just been announced as replacements for the HF-200 and HF-300, but are they any better? What have they got that makes them different to the ones they’re replacing? I wasn’t too sure either, as at first glance a bluetooth car kit is just a bluetooth car kit, right?

I grabbed a Nokia HF-310 and tried it out to see how the new Nokia car kit shapes up.

In the Box

With most ‘plug and play’ Bluetooth car kits, you normally get the loud speaker, visor clip and a charger of some description, you get the same with the Nokia HF-310, but you also get a couple of extra items – a windscreen suction holder and a suction pad that you can use anywhere in the car. The HF-310 uses the same Nokia DC-4 that most of the current Nokia handsets use, so you won’t need to buy a seperate charger for your phone.

Nokia HF-310 Box Contents

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Guide to Nokia Universal Car Holders

Finding a safe and secure way to mount your phone in the car can be a bit of a mission as there are so many different types of car holder available. Some of the universal car holders can be a bit weak, not strong enough to hold some of the bigger handsets or cope with heavy use. Nokia are well known for making high quality mobile phone accessories, so I thought I’d take a look at their Universal Car Cradles to see what these have that some of the cheaper alternatives don’t.

Nokia CR-39 Car Holder

The Nokia CR-39 Car Holder is the simplest and smallest one of the three. It has an adjustable clamp to hold your handset and has a quick release button that releases your phone quickly and easily. The bottom resting plate can also be extended for wider handsets. The side clamps are solid with a soft padded cushion to grip your phone, it does mean that for some handsets they might cover or press some of the buttons mounted on the side of your phone, so to try and over come this problem, the CR-39 can be used ‘upside down’. The bottom resting plate and the top edge can both be removed and put on the opposite ends of the holder. This will mean that the clamps then sit about 1cm lower which, depending on your phone, may prevent it from covering the volume keys.

The CR-39 will hold handsets that are 95 – 120mm tall, 42-55mm wide, 13-26mm thick and weigh no more than 200g.

Nokia CR-39 can be adjusted to work with most handsets

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