O/T - Bluetooth Headsets
Discussion
I got a Plantronics M1000 to use with a Nokia 6310i ... which by the way is a cracking phone ...
Price is about £100 ...
Headset audio quality was fine for me, but my girlfriend found it caused her voice to be echoed back to her after a fractional delay. Just to be clear, I phoned her using the M1000 and 6310i on the Orange network. She answered the call on another Nokia handset on the Orange network.
If you've ever heard your own voice fed back to you like that, you'll no how off-putting it is. It is almost impossible to continue speaking. It makes a conversation very very hard, and would be totally unacceptable for a business call.
I don't know if this happens on calls across networks, or to landlines, but if my girlfriend can't prattle on to me about nothing for hours in comfort then I am in trouble ...
Also, I use voice dialing, particularly when I'm driving. On the cheap and cheerful handsfree kit from Nokia that I've used previously, there is a button on the mike that triggers voice dialing. But there doesn't seem to be any way to get the M1000 to trigger voice dialing. You have to fish the phone out and hold down the "Names" button for a second, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a hands-free kit.
Thus the M1000 is actually slightly less functional than the £15 hands-free-on-a-wire thingy.
Oh yeah ... the M1000 is also too heavy and bulky to wear comfortably for any length of time, unlike the cheapo one. And it has a battery that goes flat after two hours talking.
I'm still within the 28 days since purchase, so mine is going back to the shop.
I like the idea of bluetooth a lot, and will be using it to hook the laptop up to GPRS ... but for headsets it just doesn't really do the job yet IMHO. It's still like the early electronic organisers ... a nice idea, but FA use in practice.
Price is about £100 ...
Headset audio quality was fine for me, but my girlfriend found it caused her voice to be echoed back to her after a fractional delay. Just to be clear, I phoned her using the M1000 and 6310i on the Orange network. She answered the call on another Nokia handset on the Orange network.
If you've ever heard your own voice fed back to you like that, you'll no how off-putting it is. It is almost impossible to continue speaking. It makes a conversation very very hard, and would be totally unacceptable for a business call.
I don't know if this happens on calls across networks, or to landlines, but if my girlfriend can't prattle on to me about nothing for hours in comfort then I am in trouble ...
Also, I use voice dialing, particularly when I'm driving. On the cheap and cheerful handsfree kit from Nokia that I've used previously, there is a button on the mike that triggers voice dialing. But there doesn't seem to be any way to get the M1000 to trigger voice dialing. You have to fish the phone out and hold down the "Names" button for a second, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a hands-free kit.
Thus the M1000 is actually slightly less functional than the £15 hands-free-on-a-wire thingy.
Oh yeah ... the M1000 is also too heavy and bulky to wear comfortably for any length of time, unlike the cheapo one. And it has a battery that goes flat after two hours talking.
I'm still within the 28 days since purchase, so mine is going back to the shop.
I like the idea of bluetooth a lot, and will be using it to hook the laptop up to GPRS ... but for headsets it just doesn't really do the job yet IMHO. It's still like the early electronic organisers ... a nice idea, but FA use in practice.
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