Anyone recommend the Motorola HS810 BT headset for XDAII ?

[ajb_111]

Hi, I am limited in the availability of bluetooth headsets. I wanted the sony erricson but cannot get this. The Motorola HS810 is available. Can anyone tell me if it works well and the talk time. Someone mentioned the bonding took 2-3 seconds which doesn't sound great at all.

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[tomerbn]

It works, perfect!
Tomer

[gyplj]

Have no idea, how Tomer could get this thing to work, my xperience is the same 2-3 (sometimes 8-10) sec's of bonding time, and then refuses to bond after 3rd or 4th call.

DO NOT BUY THAT THING!!!!

[RafilK]

I have had similar problems with the Motorola HS810 headset. It takes a few seconds to link with the XDAII when a call comes in and sometimes it does not link at all, usually when you make another call too soon after a previous one. The particularly frustrating thing is that you cannot answer a call by opening the mic boom on the headset, as it takes too long to bond with the XDAII, so you have to leave the boom open all the time (i.e. on standby).

I had hoped that this headset would enable me to redial and voice dial (with appropriate software) but I have not found any way yet of doing that. I've tried a few of the major voice recognition software programmes available on www.handango.com/o2 but no luck - they seem to require a hardware button to be pressed on the XDAII which kind of defeats the purpose of having a headset and keeping your XDAII in your bag or pocket.

I would very much like to know if:

1) Any bluetooth headsets exist that work better with the XDAII
2) Anyone has developed software which enables voice dialing from a bluetooth headset

Regards,

Rafil.

[stephen_oliver]

I found it was pretty good, but in the end exchanged it for HDH35 since I was told (incorrectly) that the SE headset interfaced better with the XDA2. This is wrong - they do the same.

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The Motorola definitely interfaces better with Nokia phones than the HDH35 - you can click twice (IIRC) to do a last number redial - the HDH35 just blithers if you do this.
The Motorola is cuter, smaller, cheaper (just), looks slightly less bizarre and less phallic (although the Jabra is the ultimate dickhead symbol)

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The HDH35 is much more comfortable for long periods of use - I can wear it on my left ear and forget it all day. Right ear, not so good!!

For your info they are about the same price on eXpansys.com, and half the price of retail in the UK. I paid £70 for the HDH35.