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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Great cable if you want to repurpose it as an Arduino upload cable

    posted by anistor78 on 05/20/2013 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Let's face it, you no longer own an old Nokia phone and you are just buying this cable because it's so easy to convert it into an Arduino usb-serial cable. The build quality is good but most importantly the case can be easily opened without destroying it an...
    Cons:
    None for the purpose I'm using this cable. I have also tried this with an old Nokia phone and it worked well.
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    • Overall Rating: 4
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 4
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    Did´nt last so long

    posted by runilagabo on 11/20/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Have bought one of these. Worked wery good for almost a year. Then it suddenly did´nt work anymore. Is wery easy to install. And have used it a lot For my old Nokia 3232. Maby I should try to by one more of these, cause they are so cheap. The origi...
    Cons:
    It did´nt last so long, But dont know, what to expect at this price...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Good deal for Seagate HDD fix!

    posted by redpyll on 11/04/2012 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    The cable is inexpensive, and build quality seems okay.
    Cons:
    -Could not find drivers to work in Win7, just use WinXP! I tried for many hours, following other peoples suggestions of driver...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 4
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    A winner

    posted by emolfi2 on 08/04/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    * Works well for my application despite being sent this cable http://www.dealextreme.com/p/45715 instead of which I ordered http://www.dealextreme.com/p/446 but internally according the photos of other user seems exactly the same. * It's cheap and arrived f...
    Cons:
    * These aren't really cons since for the intended phone application may be perfect. * Doesn't have eeprom so the SerialNumber=0...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 2
    • Ease Of Use: 3
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Fantastic

    posted by tgerrie on 07/11/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    * Cheap! * Works fine on Windows XP * Makes a great USB > 3.3v LV-TTL cable for interfacing with various serial ports
    Cons:
    * Drivers don't seem to work on Windows 7, Could not find any that would, error "This device cannot start" * Build quality not...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Used for Seagate 7200.11 fix

    posted by Canafly on 04/18/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:General (knows how to use it) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    I used this to fix a dead Seagate drive. Worked flawlessly. using the Ark Pioneer driver. As a serial data device for programmers, its great. didn't require the extra fiddling with external power like the original nokia cables.
    Cons:
    None i could find.
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Very GOOD, no problems!

    posted by jeancar on 02/24/2011 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:more than 1 month

    Pros:
    Good build quality it works perfectly. the drivers are in the disc. It's the cheaper cable that I know, you won't find a cheaper cable Nice cable for sync data, contact, pictures, etc. I buy it to make a USB to SERIAL converter, just cut the nokia jack ...
    Cons:
    No one for me, but you have to know hoe installed an how it works.
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Works Perfectly

    posted by JohnBlack on 09/07/2010 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Build quality = good It doesn't have the nokia sticker but it works perfectly. Just install the drivers from the disc and you're all sett. Price = good You won't find a cheaper cable Length = good The cable is 98cm long. Most people probably won't need...
    Cons:
    Nothing really. the product works exactly as advertised.
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 3
    • Ease Of Use: 5
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Buy it if you need it

    posted by Subunaator on 08/29/2010 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 day to 1 week

    Pros:
    It definately works and that is what I wanted from it. Build quality is not as good as the original and, unlike in the pictures it does not have Nokia stickered on it, but its still good - much cheaper than the original while still gets the job done
    Cons:
    Build quality is average. The plastic looks cheap and rough and it does not have the Nokia sticker on it as shown on the offici...
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    • Overall Rating: 5
    • Price: 5
    • Quality: 5
    • Ease Of Use: 4
    • Usefulness: 5
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    Nokia CA-42 for NOKIA 6070 and rest

    posted by denis1304 on 04/07/2010 Certified Owner

    Involvement:Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership:1 week to 1 month

    Pros:
    Nice cable for sync data, contact, pictures, ... etc on my phone NOKIA 6070 with my computer. Works well if you know how to install driver and “Nokia PC Suite” application. You must change to COM1 or COM2 in Device Manager or it will not connect auto when...
    Cons:
    You need to know how to install and setup so it will work correctly, but it is not product fault. SLO: Moras vedeti kako inst...
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