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Nokia E63 Accessories Round Up

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

The Nokia E63 has been around for a few months now and is a great phone for those that spend a lot of time texting, emailing or instant messaging. It’s based on the popular Nokia E71 and E72 business phones. It’s not too different to the E71 – the main difference being that it has a plastic outer shell rather than metal. To keep the handset costs down some of the high end features didn’t make it into the E63, but it still has Wi-Fi, great battery life, expandable memory and a 2MP camera.

If you’ve got the Nokia E63, you’re going to want to make the most of all of it’s features, and to do that you’ll need to invest in a few extra accessories, so to help you find the best ones I’ve compiled my list of some of our most popular E63 Accessories.

Noreve Tradition A Leather Case for Nokia E63

Noreve produce high quality cases for a range of top end smart phones. The Noreve Flip Case for the Nokia e63 is an elegant case that gives Piel Frama and PDair a run for their money. The case has a stitched pocket that holds your phone securely and doesn’t cover any of the screen or keypad. The whole case is hand crafted from top quality leather and leaves your camera, charging ports and volume keys accessible. The case has a detachable ratchet clip on the back that can be removed easily to leave the back of the case perfectly flat.

Noreve Tradition A Leather Case for Nokia E63

Nokia DC-4 Car Charger

Keeping your E63 charged in the car is easy with the Nokia DC-4 Car Charger. It features a tangle proof cable, LED indicator and will stop charging your E63 once the battery is full. The DC-4 Car Charger will work in Cars, Vans and Trucks and works on both 12v & 24v.

Nokia DC-4 Car Charger

Brodit Passive Holder with Tilt Swivel – Nokia E63

The safest and  easiest way to use your Nokia E63 in the car is to have it mounted in a fixed holder. Brodit Car Holders are moulded specifically for your phone from a tough ABS plastic. They are designed to be screwed to a Brodit ProClip – a damage free bracket that clips onto your dashboard without marking it. If you prefer you can also screw them directly into your dashboard or attached it to a windscreen suction mount. Brodit Car Holders leave all ports and keys accessible on your phone.

Brodit Passive Holder with Tilt Swivel - Nokia E63

Capdase Privacy Guard – Nokia E63

The E63 is all about messaging, and there’s nothing worse than having the person next to you reading what’s on your screen. These privacy guards are screen protectors that not only protect your phone against scratches, the also protect it from prying eyes. They’re cleverly constructed to let only allow the person holding the phone see the screen. Try glancing it it from any other angle and you just see a dark screen. Perfect for when you’re reading confidential work emails or telling that special someone how much you miss them while you’re on the train!

Capdase Privacy Guard - Nokia E63

Desktop Battery Charger For Nokia Batteries

One of Nokia’s strongest features in all of their phones is the battery life. Compared to most modern smartphones their batteries last extremely well – the E63 for example should give you over 2 weeks standby and almost 5 hours of talk time. For some though, this might not be enough. Carrying a spare battery is the best way to keep talking, especially if you’re going to be out of the office all day with out access to power. The only downside to spare batteries is that you have to charge them up while they’re in the phone – something that most people tend to forget. This desktop charger is a perfect solution to that problem. just sit your spare battery in it, plug it in to your existing car or mains charger and your battery will be charged and ready to go when you  are.

Desktop Battery Charger For Nokia Batteries

SanDisk MicroSDHC Card – 8GB Without Reader

The camera on the E63 is great for snapping photo’s while you’re out and about, but if you’re anything like me, these photos will stay on your phone and rarely get transferred over to your PC. As a result, you’ll find your memory card soon fills up and you have to start deleting stuff to carry on taking photos or to add more music to your phone. Memory cards have come down in price considerably over the last 12 months and you can now get an 8GB memory card for less than £20 and a 16GB memory card for less than £31. View all Nokia E63 Memory Cards

SanDisk MicroSDHC Card - 8GB Without Reader

Nokia BH-607 Bluetooth Headset

The Nokia BH-607 is Nokia’s latest Bluetooth headset and will look great with your E63. Controls are simple, one button to answer/end calls and another to activate voice dialling, read out text messages, send a predefined sms or hear the time. The headset has a detachable earloop and is one of the smartest bluetooth headsets to come out of Nokia in quite a while. Charging time is around 15 minutes for about 5 hours talk time or 120 hours standby.

Nokia BH-607 Bluetooth Headset

Bluetooth GPS Receiver

The Nokia E63 can be used as a GPS and most will come with Nokia Maps pre-installed, but as the phone doesn’t have a GPS receiver built in, you’ll need to purchase one separately. Bluetooth GPS receivers are extremely compact and this one is not much bigger than a box of matches.

Bluetooth GPS Receiver

It connects to your phone using bluetooth and will provide your phone with a GPS signal, enabling you to use it for sat nav, sports tracking, geo tagging photos and loads more. You don’t need any special software on the phone, just pair it up, download the app you want to use it with from the OVI store and away you go.

Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth Speakerphone

If you want to listen to music from your E63 in your car, the Jabra Cruiser is a great wireless way to do it. The Cruiser is a small, slim portable car kit that combines an FM transmitter with a Bluetooth Car Kit. The Jabra Cruiser simply clips to the sun visor of your car and pairs to your E63 using Bluetooth. The Cruiser can stream your music to it over Bluetooth and you can control your music using the built in controls rather than your phone as the Cruiser supports both the A2DP and AVRCP profiles.

Jabra Cruiser Bluetooth Speakerphone

There are two choices for when it comes to listening to your music. You can either play your music back through the built in speaker or through your car stereo using it’s built in FM Transmitter. It ’s currently the only car kit to have dual microphones for improved noise reduction. If you spend a lot of time in the car taking calls and are bored of listening to the radio then the Jabra Cruiser is a must have item. If you don’t want/need the music controls then take a look at the Jabra SP700. It does the same job but without the music controls and noise cancelling dual microphones.

There should be something in this list for everyone, but if not, we’ve got a wide range of E63 Covers, E63 Cases and E63 Screen Protectors over on the main site. If you’ve got any E63 accessories that we don’t have listed, let us know using the comments form below.

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A Guide to Nokia Car Kits

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

If you were to think of a fully fitted car kit, chances are two brands will spring to mind – Nokia & Parrot.  Both of these companies make some great kits, Parrot have their fantastic MKi range that you can connect your phone and music player to, and Nokia have just recently updated their car kit line up to add more focus on music & mapping integration and to make installation quicker and easier.

The most popular Nokia Car Kit ever was the CARK-91 – the one that had a cradle for the Nokia 6110/ 6210/ 6310.  Over the years, the car kits have moved away from having bulky cradles that are screwed to your dashboard, to more descreet remote controls that blend into your dashboard and don’t draw attention.

The Classic Nokia Carkit & Nokia 6210

If you’ve already got an older Nokia Car Kit installed in your car and are looking to upgrade it to work with current Nokia handsets, the bad news is that unless your car kit is a bluetooth one, it’s not upgradable and you’ll need to replace the kit.

While this might sound like it’s going to be expensive, fitted car kit prices have come down in price considerably over the past few years, so replacing your kit might not cost as much as you’d think – not only that, but Nokia have changed the way that the kits connect to your vehicle, so depending on the car and stereo that you’ve got, you might be able to install it yourself.  Now before you get too excited, Installing a car kit yourself isn’t that easy – even with the newer ISO Car Kits.  You will still need to remove some fascia panels from your car or dashboard, remove the stereo and possible connect wires to the car power supply.  I tried to install my own, got 90% of the way there and had to give in and call the professionals, so if you want an easy life (and a car that still starts) get it installed professionally.

On to the Car Kits then. Nokia now offer 3 car kits, the Nokia CK-100, CK-300 and CK-600.  Each one offers different levels of integration with your phone, and as the model names suggest, the higher the number the more features you get. All three have now dropped the external speaker and will now route all calls and music through your Car Stereo as standard.

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