Says what it does on the box and then some!

Just what i wanted and at a great price too! The fast port connector fits securely into my Sony Ericsson cradle and also features useful pins on the bottom to allow further connectivity to wired hands free kits. It's lightweight and small so I can carry it around or hide it away without much problem.

Excellent product BUT!

I bought this for my wife for Christmas and the set up process was excellent. The signal from the ipod is first class but the only annoying thing is that if your ipod has a cover of some sort it wont connect to the ipod. Even with the i-skin evo, which I have on my ipod, it prevented the transmitter from working so you have to remove the cover for it to work. All it would need is a longer connector and it would have got 5 stars.

TIP

Brilliant as said above - agree with the appearance as stated above though but not a big issue really - maybe for a younger person. Use it in my car also it works brilliantly BUT if you decide to get it, make sure the ipod volume is on max and you adjust the car sterio after putting the ipod on max volume otherwise you hear the tape going around! but excellant!!! no complaints!!

Great Product

I have had one of these for a year now and its miles better than those earpiece jobs. The quality is excellent, battery life very good indeed and it works seemlessly with my Nokia N95. Voice dialling works a treat, however my previous phone (a Samsung) was a bit dodgy, I put this down to the phone rather than the HCB-100. It clips onto the visor and does what it says on the tin! I'm about to buy another for my partner as she never has her earpiece charged or to hand, whereas with the HCB-100 its always ready to connect and the battery lasts ages and can be recharged in the car. It automatically turns off after 10 mins if you go out of bluetooth range, and connects again with one touch when you get back in the car.

Beware!

I bought this item from Halfords (1st mistake), as they offered free fitting and I wasn't comfortable pulling apart the dashboard of my Clio.
They charged me £99, but I since found out that is way over the top for price (so it isn't really free fitting is it!).
The first problem I encountered was that it didn't seem to retain all the information after I switched off the ignition. Then I realised that it didn't switch off at all and finally I realised that my cigarette lighter socket didn't work! All of these were down to it not being fitted properly by Halfords. They had missed that Renault Clio's have reverse polarity on the chassis (even though there is a BIG warning on the Parrot fitting instructions) and they hadn't re-connected the power lead to the Cig Lighter after messing about - hence my sat-nav went flat half way to a destination!

On the actual item itself, there are still a few niggles which you ought to consider:
1. If you have to re-record the info for a contact, the CK3000 Evo will treat it as a NEW contact, and when you say the voice tag, if it is the same as the OLD voice tag (i.e. same persons name) then the Evo will probably revert to the old data because it was the first one recorded.

2. The bog-standard microphone is a bit sensitive to background noise, especially if (Halfords) have fitted it to the right hand side of your car by the door at the top, where all the wind noise occurs in most cars. Make sure that they fit it between the curtesy light and your sun visor (as advised in the Parrot fitting instructions!!)

3. The Evo does not have any"review" facility for the numbers stored in it, unless you own one of a select number of different(old) Sony Ericcson phones. The T39 is one of them, and so is the T610. So if you want to check what numbers you have in the EVO, buy one of these old phones too.
Better still, buy the Parrot 3200 LS-COLOR PLUS, (NOT the Parrot 3200 LS-COLOR) and have all of these great functions built-in for a few quid more.

A bit disappointed

I am sure this is a good piece of kit for the car. The only thing that bothers me is recharging. I have had a car cig lighter recharger sent with product. Why on earth is this so? I bought the kit to be free of wires in the car but so far, the only way I can recharge it is to connect it by wire to the cig lighter. A very bright idea by the producer, sic sic.