While there’s quite a range of choice for in-car Bluetooth hands-free speakerphones, many of them require either regular recharging or a 12V hook-up via the cigarette lighter socket.  If you’re like me, that socket it already taken up by your GPS, so you either swap between (and cope with what seems like miles of cabling snaking all over the dashboard) or you don’t bother answering calls until you’re parked up.  Anycom have another solution: their SCK-1 Bluetooth hands-free kit is solar powered, giving thirty minutes of talktime for every 3hrs of sunlight.

Not a vast amount, perhaps, but enough to handle the occasional call; plus, if you do find your 12V socket free, there’s an adaptor that will charge it up in a mere 2hrs.  Anycom quote 15hrs talktime from a full battery, or 25 days standby, and there’s DSP noise cancelling and echo reduction. 

The SCK-1 is compatible with voice-dialling, three-way calling and redial/hold/mute functions, should your cellphone offer them, and is available now for $89.99. 

[via bookofjoe]