... This means you can have your phone in a holder on your dash board and the Jabra in your ear with no wire to get caught up in as you try to change gear or steer. The unit also supports voice dialing so you can push the call button on the headset and just say who you want to call and it dials. ... Read review
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Advantages: Don't Get Nicked For Holding The Phone Disadvantages: Yes It Is Another Gadget
...your dash board and the Jabra in your ear with no wire to get caught up in as you try to change gear or steer. The unit also supports voice dialing so you can push the call button on the headset and just say who you want to call and it dials. This will of course depend on your phone supporting it, mine works fine with my Siemens S55. Also if you have an incoming call you will hear a beep in your ear to notify you of it and you can then decide if ... ...this if you have text message come through, presumably they don’t want you to read a text message while driving.
THE COMFORT FACTOR
The unit as standard comes with two gel ear pieces that clip on the end of the speaker arm. They are specially moulded to fit the ear and are really comfortable. Initially I felt that they were blocking my ear up a bit but I’ve soon got used to it. Now I always drive with it in just in case I get ... more
SOUND AND VOLUME The sound level is great. I’ve used wired handsfree kits before but find I can never get the volume loud enough to hear when driving down the motorway and such like. However with this unit I can adjust the volume level at the push of a button up or down and you really can hear it well. It is a little bit hard to find the volume button as it’s built so smoothly into the unit but the answer button is easy to find.
FEATURES The headset is Bluetooth, which for those of you who don’t know allows you to connect two Bluetooth devices up without a wire over a short distance. This means you can have your phone in a holder on your dash board and the Jabra in your ear with no wire to get caught up in as you try to change gear or steer. The unit also supports voice dialing so you can push the call button on the headset and just say who you want to call and it dials. This will of course depend on your phone supporting it, mine works fine with my Siemens S55. Also if you have an incoming call you will hear a beep in your ear to notify you of it and you can then decide if you want to answer. It does not however do this if you have text message come through, presumably they don’t want you to read a text message while driving.
THE COMFORT FACTOR The unit as standard comes with two gel ear pieces that clip on the end of the speaker arm. They are specially moulded to fit the ear and are really comfortable. Initially I felt that they were blocking my ear up a bit but I’ve soon got used to it. Now I always drive with it in just in case I get that important call (after all you don’t want to get nicked!!!). It is also a bit hard to clip it over the ear to start with and you find yourself struggling with both hands with one arm round your head so to speak, but now I can just clip it on with one hand. Just takes getting used to.
DURABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS I’ve not had any problems with mine. However I could see that because of the flexible nature of the unit it could quite easily be snapped if you caught wrong with a little bit of force. But overall for it’s standard use I would say it is perfectly adequate.
VALUE FOR MONEY I got mine when the new law came in and they had just gone down to £49.99 from £79.99. I’m not sure of what the fines are now, but I’d say it’s a lot better than a fine and also the guilt of if you did have an accident and hurt someone and hadn’t attempted to take adequate pre-cautions. Much better than any wired headset as you have no wires.
EASE OF USE AND CONNECTIVITY When you first get the unit out of the box you need to plug it into the included mains charger (nope, there is no 12v car charger available for the unit to my knowledge) for about half hour (the book says more but this gives enough to set it up). Then all you do is put it into the Bluetooth search mode, then on your phone go to the Bluetooth setup and search for devices. It should find the headset, then all you do is pair it up as per the instructions and hey presto it’s done. From then on if you want to use it just turn it on and it’s connected. The instruction manual is very clear about what to do and how to do it.
BATTERY LIFE I use mine generally when driving to work, which is usually 45 minutes each way (so 90 minutes a day) and I will use it for talk time for about 10-15 minutes at least on that journey and I find that from a full charge I’m getting around about 5 or so days on that which is absolutely excellent. This means I can leave the unit in the car until it needs charging so I don’t even have to carry it round outside the car too much. When the battery starts to get low it starts to beep at you every so often to warn you and it does that in plenty of time to get it back in the charger.
MY OPINION Wonderful, it is the best handsfree kit I’ve used. It is the only Bluetooth one I’ve used however so I can’t really compare it to any of the others but I would recommend this unit to anyone over a wired kit or those silly holders with a speaker on them that don’t work very well in my experience.
Advantages: shape, comfortable fit, sound quality, ease of use Disadvantages: talk-time, range
I bought this little beauty because of the ban of mobile use in cars. What a great compromise to splashing out a fortune on a properly installed car kit or buying an inadequate cheap generic car-kit-thingy.
On the positive side: Out of the box it's very easy to use, programmed to the phone in a matter of minutes, can be fitted in seconds, build-quality is very good (have dropped it, shoved it in pockets and it's still going strong after about a ... ...(this channels the sound into your ear and cuts out background noise altogether), there's only one button you really need to use on it (my SonyEricsson has voice dialing) making it very simple to use. All this from as little as £40 these days (a fine will cost you more if caught using your phone without it whilst driving).
On the down-side though (there had to be...): the battery life isn't great, but bearable. Just means you have to remember to ...
feckineedjut 26.07.2004
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Advantages: Clear sound, light weight, ease of use Disadvantages: Talk Time Battery Life
...have just bought a Bluetooth Jabra BT200 handsfree/wirefree unit for my Sony Ericsson T610. Never even considered a wirefree unit until now, but I have to say that I was very suprised with this purchase. Its very light weight, easy to use, and comes with THREE yes Three different size ear gels. I have had the wire headsets before (usually the ones that come free with the phone), the cables are never long enough or get caught on your clothes when ... ...buy. Thought I had better post my experiance so you all can get this great deal too !. I do hope that this review will halp anyone considering a Bluetooth Jabra headset. E-mail me if you want any specific questions answered or leave me a comment. All the best. Ben ...
romeo42822 17.06.2004
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Advantages: Gel piece to fit your ears Disadvantages: Connection not perfect but not as bad as the cheap ones, that come free
The jabra all in all is better quality then the freebies which cost around 50p and are imports that you get free with purchasing such and such in store. However, they do retail around £19.99, but if your lucky depending on the model your after you should be able to hunt aorund the independent retailers who sell them for abit less then the chain stores.
The gell earpiece is a very good idea, and yet when i move the bottom fixture into a 3210 sometimes ... ...you.
From experience i prefer spending that little bit extra and investing in a plantronics, if you like handsfree but if you are mainly using the headset in a car, buy a handsfree speaker and phone holder which cost around £30 and if you use it in conjunction with the Wildfire facility (available for a one off payment of £11.75 on all both OVP and normal orange contracts!!- is free with the one 2 one OVP plans on ornage to call your answer machine) ...
butler_sophie 14.12.2000
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