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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
The best Bluetooth headset I've found!
By Mark Miller
I've owned this headset for a few months now and I have to say this is the best one of all the ones I've tried so far (I use the HBH-300 with a Sony Ericsson T616 which, by the way, is an excellent phone -- I have had my T616 about a year and a half now).Let me tell you about my experiences with 2 other headsets I've tried (hopefully this will help you and save you a lot of time and lot of returns -- it was a headache and somewhat discouraging, as it seemed I would never find a Bluetooth headset that I deemed excellent):1. Sony Ericsson HBH-60: When I bought my T616 phone, I bought the HBH-60 Bluetooth headset to use with it. I was impressed with the headset itself, as it was easy to put on my ear and not too uncomfortable. But I ended up selling it on Amazon a few months ago because I could not get it to work with the voice recognition on my T616, even after reading through the instruction manual and going to Sony Ericsson's web site for technical support (no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the voice dialing to work, and that's important to me -- I mean, what good is the headset if I can't use voice dialing with it? Sure, I could still use it, but I paid about $150.00 for that headset a year and half ago when it was the coolest looking Bluetooth headset I found and there weren't many other headsets to compare it to -- so for me, to spend $150.00 on a headset (a lot of money) and not be able to use voice dialing (a key feature of the phone), it just wasn't worth it -- unfortunately, I only got about $60.00 for it when I sold it on Amazon).2. Jabra BT-250: Although the sound quality was excellent, the headset was comfortable on my ear, and people told me they could hear me extremely well, I could not put the headset on my ear with one hand, and to me that's important, because if I'm driving and a call comes in, I need one hand on the steering wheel while I put the headset on my ear with my other hand.Bluespoon Chameleon: When I heard about Bluespoon's Bluetooth headset and its different way of attaching to your ear, I was quite interested. However, before the Chameleon model came out, there was only the Digital model, and that thing cost like $300.00, and I'm sorry, but I'm not going to spend $300.00 on a headset -- my phone didn't even cost that much! Later on, Bluespoon came out with the Chameleon model at a more reasonable $150.00 or so. So I tried the Chameleon and not only was it extremely uncomfortable on my ear (it hurt and my ear turned red in color), but it was so incredibly hard just to get it on my ear -- despite all of the web sites I went to for picture diagrams showing how to put it on, this thing proved to be extremely difficult to put on. I never tested the voice quality of it though, and so I can't tell you how good or bad the voice quality was. So, as with the Jabra BT-250, I returned it because of the difficulty in placing it on my ear and also because of the pain with using it (at least I could get the Jabra on my ear pretty easily, with two hands of course).Now for my final review of the HBH-300:- What an excellent headset! I've mastered the ability of placing it on my ear with one hand. It is reasonably comfortable on my ear and you never forget it's there, but it does become uncomfortable after a while (not too uncomfortable, but you do get used to it).- The battery life is awesome! I believe it when Sony Ericsson says on the box that it has a talk time of up to 10 hours, as I hardly ever have to recharge it (of course, since I don't use my cell phone as often as other people do, I can't absolutely say the talk time is 10 hours, but based on my experiences with it so far, I believe the 10 hour talk time is probably true).- The sound quality is excellent on both my end and the other person's end -- it isn't perfect, as my girlfriend told me a couple of times that she couldn't hear me well, but I would say it is more often good than bad, and I'm happy with the sound quality overall.- On the negative side, I have to agree with the other reviewers about that loud, piercing beep when you use it to place a call, for example. Like other reviewers have said, I wish you could lower the volume on that beep, but I haven't found a way to do that, and I may never will.- The other thing I found useless was the desk stand, as I had a hard time getting the wire for the charger to stay tucked into the loop design for charging purposes, and so I never use it (when I want to recharge it, I just connect it to the headset).Overall, I have to say again that this is the best Bluetooth headset I've tried thus far and I am planning on keeping it, as overall I am very pleased with it, especially because of its reasonably good comfort and excellent battery life. Plus, I do like the idea of using a Sony Ericsson headset with a Sony Ericsson phone (in my mind, using the same brand for the headset and phone makes the most sense, especially in terms of equipment compatibility). Although I had planned on trying the Plantronics M3500 Bluetooth headset before I bought the HBH-300, I never did, mainly because I heard about some software (?) problems with the Plantronics headset, and the reviews I read about it were not that great.In closing, I wish you the best in your search for a Bluetooth headset -- although you may not agree with me, I think this is the best Bluetooth headset and the best value on the market.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Good value for money
By Zakaria Nabil
Although relatively expensive than other alternatives but very reliable and the battery time is good (10 hours), very easy to use and good value for money, I tried both Jabra and plaintronics and I am happy with this one
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent hands free
By R. Lee
The headset was easily paired with the t637 and the voice recognition features worked well. When answering incoming call waiting features it will drop the first call. Call waiting and conference calls have to be made directly thru the phone. Magic word feature will not work on the headset. Other than that this is an excellent headset, fairly good range and sound quality.
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