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Please don't tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. If you didn't hear me the first time, I've used ONE HPM-70 for 3 years with NO problems. I also have two standard headsets (that come with the phone) that I also use regularly and no problems with them either. I'm an extensive user of SE phones and fastport products including use in all kinds of environments and situations. So I DO have the experience to back up what I'm saying.

I've never had a fastport accessory restart a phone. It's your flipping phone that's faulty, it's a lemon. It's not a fastport problem.

Your pocket is the wrong place to keep your phone if you want to use a headset. It's true a usb miniplug or 3.5mm will be more secure against being loosened, but the forces that pop the fastport off or loosen it in your pocket will actually damage the usb-mini or 3.5mm socket over time. Better to damage the accessory than the phone itself don't you think?

If your fastport accessories become damaged in short time, then you must be doing something wrong.

There is a possible reason not keeping the contacts clean could cause you to have to replace headsets sooner than normal. If the headset becomes looser, it will still make a good contact if the contacts are clean. I have had this happen on occasion (new headsets worked when old one's didn't, until I clean the contacts then the old one works again). But though the fastport loses some of it's rigidity in the first three months, it doesn't get any worse, and from then on all you need to do is keep the contacts clean.



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Posted: 2008-03-26 15:56:32
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I've used my K810 for 10 months now and I've got no problems with the fastport. Same goes for my best friend. She's had a K750 for about 2 years now and she rarely has any problems with it.
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Posted: 2008-03-26 16:01:38
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I've been using my headphones I got with my first W550i on my k750i and K800i for years and their still working fine. So far, the female connectors on all my phones have been fine, they've just needed a clean with a fine fibreglass stick occasionally, and the male connector is still as good as new.
Maybe your female connectors needs a clean, it van get crap in there quite easily.
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Posted: 2008-03-26 16:15:38
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My fast port broke the same day I got a p990 and then I let off a few colorful words about how smart it is.
That fast port is a disadvantage to phones.

fast port
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Posted: 2008-03-26 17:16:55
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It will be good when all manufacturers come to their senses and just use a 3.5mm jack for headphones and mini/micro USB for power/data. Not singling SE out, Nokia, Samsung are all the same. My work phone, a BB pearl just has a mini USB and a 3.5mm jack, make life easier.
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Posted: 2008-03-26 17:34:07
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I'm quite sick of replying to your posts, so I'll leave you with a last one...

I've got years of experience with phones so please don't think that I don't know what I am talking about. Oh - will a 3.5 mm jack connector work with USB 2.0 cables? Or with any of the other non-music related accessories from
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Posted: 2008-03-26 17:56:39
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The fastport broke on my W900i but that was my own fault. I tend to find that its the connector on the accessories that I have any problems with, not on the phone itself.
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Posted: 2008-03-26 17:57:22
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I have K850i and P1i and no problems whatsoever with their fastports. Mini usb and a 3.5 mm jack are just pockets for dust. And as few have already said, 3.5 mm jack on Nokia N95 is just inviting to be broken, it is even hard to place it properly in the pocket with the headphones plugged in. Anyways, to each its own, Imo the whole thing about this subject is over reacted.
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Posted: 2008-03-26 18:23:00
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It is handy knowing you can charge via mini USB using just the one cable, although I've heard that some manufacturers are moving to micro USB as their standard.
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Posted: 2008-03-26 18:42:02
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Honestly if there were an industry standard things would be simple!
The FastPort does work well, although in my old V600i it has rusted :s
Usually the problem lies with the actual connector bit, don't know the name, the one that goes into the phone.
Seriously phones would be perfect if they just stuck a nice 3.5mm jack on the top of the phone for sound only. No video. No data. Just sound.
Using a normal set of earphones would be so much easier and plugging into a larger output. If you want wired handsfree, simple. Keep using the current method. just needs to butch up the connectors a bit.
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Posted: 2008-03-27 00:27:03
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