Premium Telephone Kit & Nokia 6500S

[Teflon]

Don't expect a fat lot from Nokia. They are a gigantic firm, with the usual dipsticks and university drop-outs answering technical EMails. Also, although the box in the car says Nokia on it, there is a suggestion that it is badge-engineered and the kit is actually knocked out by a German firm, who I've tried to contact but without success.

The list of compatible phones you got from Nokia is different to the one I got from them, which in turn is different to the two lists I got from VW. Even worse, all 4 lists say the old 6230i works; I've tried 3 of them and one refused to play ball because it has the wrong software version. There's a long list of phones on Wikipedia (in German), but I've tried a selection of these and none work. So in the end, it's just a lottery.

Bottom line is that VW is charging the best part of £600 for an over complicated piece of kit that doesn't work with 95% of the phones available on the market today. There must be a law against this somewhere.

[Moth70]

I'm not convinced by the reply from Nokia about the car kit not working with the latest phones.

As I've posted before, I've now tried the 6300, 6500c, 6500s and E61 - all unlocked handsets - and all of them worked perfectly. Also, some people seem to have used the N95 successfully too.

All of these phones, with the exception of the E61, are current models - much newer than the old models on the official list.

I suspect that nobody from Nokia or VW has actually tested the more recent phones - in other words, they are not maintaining the list.

[Teflon]

Tried an (older) N95. It didn't work. It's a shambles mate.

I suspect that the 6300 and 6500 both work, but it hardly qualifies as an extensive list. Anyone not in the Nolia camp is stuffed.

Scandalous, if you ask me.