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Lowest cost "hands free" phone solution avoids market

Fed up with high technology solutions to hands-free phone use? Tired of juggling earpiece cables? Sick of trying to "pair" Bluetooth devices? At last! - a solution may be at hand.

Our thanks to the reader who supplied this technology advance.

His adaptation is very low cost: "I don't know if you've heard, but starting 1 Oct 2002 you are no longer be able to use a mobile phone while driving, unless you have a hands free adapter. I have a new solution to the problem."

In a nutshell, he found existing solutions too expensive. "I went to Carphone Warehouse and they wanted £50 for a headset with a boom microphone for a mobile phone. So I have found an alternative from Office World. These kits are compatible with any mobile phone and one size fits all. I paid £0.58 each for buying in quantity."

He claims to be selling them for £1.99 including post and packaging. "I tried them out on Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia phones and they worked perfectly," he reports. No tests have been carried out by users with long hair, and we expect no warranty to accompany the product. And if people start asking: "Goodness, has someone tried to scalp you?" after prolonged use, that's seen purely as a conversational gambit ...