Anyone Actually Use Bluetooth With your Phone?

[Guest ExcitedJime]

So my son decided to give me his over used iPhone. Took me a week or two to figure out how exactly it all works, but its pretty great. I gave up my old samsung flip phone for it, but the headset i use while on the road does not work. In my search for a new headset my son mentioned bluetooth....so im here asking. Ive seen a few of you out there with these things in your ears...are they worth it? Do they work good? easy to use? I noticed they have speaker phones as well, i have been eyeing this [url="http://www.wirelessground.com/jabra-cruiser2-bluetooth.html"]Jabra Cruiser speakerphone[/url], just wanted some advice before i bought something i know nearly nothing about!

[Guest sL1k]

I have never used a bluetooth speaker phone but i have used the jawbone headsets i no longer use bluetooth with my cell phone but i do use bluetooth on my work phone (i cannot stand using a wired headset so i bought a jabra bluetooth transmitter that you can hook up to any land line phone) so i still use my jawbone headset with it.
plantronics, jabra, and jawbone make good stuff. plantronics and jawbone both have some of the best outside noise cancelling technology (you can talk while the windows down and the radio is up and the person on the other end will not hear it).

[R_Bert]

I use the [url="http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-CommandOne-Bluetooth-Headset-Packaging/dp/B004M5IUHY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1352242127&sr=8-1&keywords=motorola+command+one"]Motorola Command One[/url], and like it well enough that I bought a second one after losing the first.

[TrickyNicky]

Not yet but I'm going to start since I hate being on the phone while driving but sometimes unavoidable when you have a family member dependent on being able to reach you.

Make sure you turn on the Bluetooth setting in the settings menu and turn it back off when you leave the car as it will drain the battery faster.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

I quit because of the battery drain.

[dunndw]

I use one pretty much all day. I spend ALOT of time driving, and I hate to hold the phone to my ear

[R_Bert]

[quote name='6.8 AR' timestamp='1352243674' post='840398']
I quit because of the battery drain.
[/quote]

Don't know about iPhone, but on my aged AT&T tilt, and my SamSung Galaxy Proclaim, I get a good 12 hour day with BT & WiFi activated. Now, the GPS kills them very fast.

[viscero]

bought a new car radio a year ago that has bluetooth built in so that my phone syncs to it, can make calls from it, etc. best hands free I've ever used.

[Romad7]

[quote name='viscero' timestamp='1352245412' post='840424']
bought a new car radio a year ago that has bluetooth built in so that my phone syncs to it, can make calls from it, etc. best hands free I've ever used.
[/quote]

Me too, I like this the best.

[strickj]

Yes! It's worth every penny being able to answer calls from your steering wheel!

[gjohnsoniv]

I only use the Bluetooth in my car. I can't stand walking around with one of those darned ear pieces, and on top of that I don't want to be the guy who looks like he is talking to himself. I also hate talking on the phone. That is all.

[Raoul]

I've tried, but just don't like a headset of any kind.

[TripleDigitRide]

Being a truck driver, I use a Bluetooth all day. I've tried many, and none have come close to the quality of my Jawbone ERA. It is one of the most expensive, but it's been worth every penny. The sound quality and noise canceling is second to none, based on my years of experience.

[Photoguy67]

I use the blue parrot b250 xt. I have stood in front of a running tractor trailer and the person I was talking to heard nothing but my voice.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Our truck uses Bluetooth. My wife's phone is sync'd and every time she gets in the truck it automatically connects.

Dolomite

[Guest Aces&8s]

I use it when driving. I have a plantronics Marque paired to my nexus. It has a 5 hour talk time, but when not in use, it has a standby time of over a week.

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[Hershmeister]

All the time. I have a jambox too - love it!

[Peace]

Plantronics Voyager HD: Grrreat with my wife's Evo, ... Awful with my iPhone 4S.

[jcj]

[quote name='Peace' timestamp='1352265721' post='840806']Plantronics Voyager HD: Grrreat with my wife's Evo, ... Awful with my iPhone 4S. [/quote]

I have this same model. Outstanding sound quality. I use it for a good 3 hours of talk time daily.

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Edited November 7, 2012 by jcj

[Guest Lester Weevils]

If I had a phone without a keyboard might likely use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse with it on occasion. I like to maintain to-do and calendar items direct on the phone rather than first entering them on a desktop puter and then exporting the data to the phone. Am horrible with on-screen tiny keyboards. I make at least two typing mistakes for every correctly entered character. So if I had a phone without a hardware keyboard would HAVE to use a bluetooth keyboard to update the to-do and calendar and contacts databases, or get so frustrated I'd stomp the phone to smithereens.

Never tried a bluetooth headset with a phone. If the phone rings when I'm in the car I just don't answer. Maybe a bluetooth headset would be good with a phone in certain situations. Been thinking about getting some "high fidelity" stereo bluetooth headphones or earbuds, but that would be more for convenient music listening than telephone type of operations.

A couple of years ago experimented with a Motorola bluetooth headset along with a little usb bluetooth dongle connected to the windows 7 puter, for the daily company internet office meetings. It didn't work that great. Windows kept forgetting the correct settings and screwing up the connections. Had to fiddle with the settings too much day-to-day to keep it working. So went back to doing the internet meetings with a nice old studio-quality phantom-powered condenser mic on a boom stand, connected to a Focusrite 24 bit audio interface. Speaking thru the bluetooth headset I sounded like a tinny redneck hillbilly, but thru the studio-quality signal chain and $500 microphone I sound like God with a Deep Southern Drawl. My ignorance sounds much more authoritative thru a good signal chain.

Bluetooth is a pretty good thang for keyboard and mouse and trackpad peripherals. When got the Mac Pro a few years ago, ordered bluetooth apple keyboard and mouse. The gadgets were cute and fashionable and worked great with the mac, except the chicklet keyboard wasn't very ergonomic, the mouse was too tiny, they were way too expansive (typical apple pricing) and both gadgets broke after about a year of daily use. But they looked very fashionable and avante-garde. Anyway the bluetooth connection worked great. It wasn't the fault of the bluetooth spec that apple is more fashion-conscious than practical.

Recently I got a Logitech bluetooth keyboard and mouse to use with an android motorola pad that works fabulous. It is hard to figure because the logitech tiny bluetooth keyboard is a chicklet keyboard about the same size of the flimsy apple bluetooth keyboard, but the logitech is easier to type on than the old apple gadget. And the logitech bluetooth mouse is simply fabulous.

I've had lots of logitech keyboards and mice over the years, but lately am really digging on them. Good product for the money. Recently got another "non bluetooth" logitech wireless keyboard to use with the mac that is a K400. Small light keyboard, chicklet keys but still real easy to use, no numeric keypad but with a laptop-style trackpad where the numeric keys would be. Paired with a "non bluetooth" M325 wireless mouse. Its great. The keys work fabulous. The trackpad works fabulous and for some purposes its lots more convenient to have a trackpad on the keyboard rather than a separate mouse. And in the cases where a separate mouse is better, the M325 mouse works fabulous. You can move and click with the trackpad then use your hand to move and click with the mouse, back and forth, and the cursor responds to each input device perfectly and at the same time. So anyway that doesn't have anything to do with bluetooth headsets but am real pleased with it.

[Chadastrophic]

[quote name='Photoguy67' timestamp='1352258710' post='840634']I use the blue parrot b250 xt. I have stood in front of a running tractor trailer and the person I was talking to heard nothing but my voice.[/quote]

It's the ugliest headset out there, BUT it's the only one that doesn't piss me off. My problem is the speaker is never loud enough, but this one I actually have to turn the volume all the way down. The noise cancellation is phenomenonal.

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[Sam1]

My work truck has that ford sync system in it and thanks to it, haven't used a BT headset in about two years now.

May still have a couple of them, if I can locate them, you're more than welcome to one so you don't have to spend any $.

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[Defender]

I've never had a Bluetooth in the ear type that I liked. Now I have a Motorola headset that is over the head type and looks more like a music headset. It works pretty good for music listening and when a call comes in it switches to phone use automatically. Overall, pretty good since I don't like the in your ear types.