I’ve got a couple of old earphones/handsfree kits and I don’t know what would still be of any use. Any ideas?

Nokia N95 – handsfree earphones with 3.5mm jack – Still usable, not obsolete but is it just me or is the sound quality poor on these? (The ones with the clear insulation on the wire)

Nokia 6230 - handsfree earphones with funny connection – 2 black ‘prongs’ to fix to the phone and 8 or so of the tiny copper prongs to make contact. Probably 6 or more years old, what’s the most recent phone that this would have worked in? 6230i? Likely to be of any use to anyone?

Motorola – 2 OFF, KRZR and V3x, handsfree earphones. Mini USB plug on the end, are Motorola still using this type? Still likely to work properly in a Motorola phone?

I’ve got a couple of Samsung ones but they’re the biggest bunch of b*****ds going when it comes to changing the connections on things, earphones, chargers etc and I can’t remember what they’ve come off anyway – I’ll chuck them.

Also, I came across a few old PC components:

128mb PC 133 DIMM

Unidentified DIMM

Original Pentium processor with a heatsink pasted on, not sure on speed

PCI Graphic card that was crap even when I bought my first computer in 1997

Is there anywhere these would find a good home or should they go straight in the bin?

And last but not least, I have a broken ipod mini, assumed unfixable at the time and I moved on to something else. But I still have a couple of cases, an FM transmitter (compatible with similar age full size ipod), the proper USB lead and some docked speakers.

1) Can’t remember the last time I saw an ipod mini so I doubt the cases are any use but what about the FM transmitter, the connection is to the headphone socket plus the extra slot old ipods had on the top, not the data socket.

2) In regard to the USB lead and the speakers, do current ipods use the same connection as the ipod mini did?

Edited 20 February, 201016 yr by daiking

Landfill beckons...

Thursday/friday are free listing days on ebay.

Why not list it all and see what you can offload?

Can you guess what it is yet?

might be work sticking on freecycle.

I've got rid of some old pc bits like that. Someone's happy to take it off your hands and it doesn't end up in a landfill

The apple bits are no longer less use than tits on a fish.

Following some googling, dis-assembly, ebay, a few days postage and a healthy dose of good luck that I didn't goose the thing taking it apart, my 5 yr old ipod mini (won in a Walkers crisp competition) is alive. The drive was fubar-ed, probably after droping it once to often and now the replacements are peanuts on ebay unlike at the time it broke.