Headphones for Sony Xperia S

Cholek3 · Mar 3, 2012

Hi all,

Some of you know, that new Sony Xperia (2012) line phones use CTIA 3.5mm standard (basically same as Apple's iPhone). I have seen some phone reviews and noticed, that standard headset is in one piece, you cannot disconnect headphones. I am looking for headset, where you can unplug headphones and connect better ones, and of course it has to work with new Xperia S.

Something like we had with Xperia X10:

Link removed ~~bitpushr

Difference between CTIA (Xperia S) and OMTP standard:

RiotRick · Mar 3, 2012

You could try something like this:

http://www.ebay.nl/itm/Griffin-GC17...uting_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item20c2f12f74

Cholek3 · Mar 3, 2012

Thanks for an advice.

I checked it somewhere else and it has got rather avarage reviews, apparently cable and clip keep breaking. Do you have one, so you could confirm?

awf · Mar 4, 2012

Cholek3 said:
Thanks for an advice. I checked it somewhere else and it has got rather avarage reviews, apparently cable and clip keep breaking. Do you have one, so you could confirm?

Well it's not exactly the same but I receive this one with the pre-order and will let you know the results if interested?

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/accessories/smart-wireless-headset-pro/

Cholek3 · Mar 4, 2012

awf said:
Well it's not exactly the same but I receive this one with the pre-order and will let you know the results if interested?

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/accessories/smart-wireless-headset-pro/

Yeah, why not. Not only for me, you could post something for others as well.

I have MW600, but I am not a big fan of listening music over bluetooth.

awf · Mar 4, 2012

Cholek3 said:
Yeah, why not. Not only for me, you could post something for others as well. I have MW600, but I am not a big fan of listening music over bluetooth.

In the car it's convenient (not only music) and I always have a quarrel with the wire lol
I never can resist an offer when it's free lol

shmoejoe · Mar 5, 2012

awf said:
In the car it's convenient (not only music) and I always have a quarrel with the wire lol
I never can resist an offer when it's free lol

I also have the MW600, and I preordered my Xperia S with that free bluetooth headset as well...

I'm curious if it's any better, if not I may just resell the freebie one

I have had my MW600 for awhile, and I have yet to find better

RiotRick · Mar 5, 2012

You realize the mw600 won't work right on the xperia s if you just plug it in?

Sony changed the headset standard, to be compatible with the more widely used ctia standard (same as iphone). The pins are connected differently:

You can offcourse buy an adapter cable so that it will work.

shmoejoe · Mar 5, 2012

RiotRick said:
You realize the mw600 won't work right on the xperia s if you just plug it in?

Sony changed the headset standard, to be compatible with the more widely used ctia standard (same as iphone). The pins are connected differently:

You can offcourse buy an adapter cable so that it will work.

you cant plug the MW600 into anything, its a stand alone bluetooth device that you can plug your headphones into. Unless you mean the headphones that might come with the Xperia, which I never use anyways.

http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/Sony-Ericsson-MW600-Review_id2644

So I i really don't care about the jack

and the other bluetooth device mentioned above works in the same manner.

RiotRick · Mar 5, 2012

shmoejoe said:
you cant plug the MW600 into anything, its a stand alone bluetooth device that you can plug your headphones into.

Gotcha, thought it plugged in the phone, but is bt

shmoejoe · Mar 5, 2012

RiotRick said:
Gotcha, thought it plugged in the phone, but is bt

Yea, it's a really nice little gadget

I highly recommend it if you don't like all the wires. I always have my phone in my pocket or in a case on my side, because I am horrible with dropping phones.

I was on the Sony site looking at the new BT device, and apparently it has a seperate SD card for music and such, which could be big downside to owning that device if you are like me, and keeps a rather large music collection on your phone. With the small LED it would also make it a bit hard to dig through your music collection :/

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/accessories/smart-wireless-headset-pro/specifications/

Or it can go the other way....

Putting all the music to the BT devices SD storage would free up the space on the Xperia S :/ though with that space it's not really necessary to hold back...

meh, I dunno, I will see where this goes...It's over a week til I get even the phone anyways (I need to send in for the BT device apparently)

we'll see from there how it goes.

RiotRick · Mar 5, 2012

I think the new headset can play music from the phone as well. And besides that it can act as a stand-alone mp3 player with the music on the headset itself.
So you could actually stick some extra music on the headset, it can take up to 32gb sd cards (a 2gb card is in the box).

Rashkae · Mar 9, 2012

shmoejoe said:
I have had my MW600 for awhile, and I have yet to find better

I agree! Though the new Sony one is looking nice, but the sound quality from my MW600 impresses me every time.

season007 · Mar 10, 2012

I was trying to put on a pair of bose headset(with microphone) on the phone which i used to use on my iphone 4 but no go...it simply doesn't recognize the headset, anyone know what's going on?

bustervic · Mar 11, 2012

season007 said:
I was trying to put on a pair of bose headset(with microphone) on the phone which i used to use on my iphone 4 but no go...it simply doesn't recognize the headset, anyone know what's going on?

I have the same issue with some Seinhauser ones. What the hell Sony...

ontwerp · Mar 12, 2012

iphone comp. headsets

Would be dealbreaker for me too...
At least my htc can use the mic en headphone part...
With headsets app I use the play button for play/pause/volume up etc etc...
I'm selling HTC sensation XE [2 months now] for one x by htc or this
sony xperia s......

bustervic · Mar 12, 2012

I emailed Sony, hopefully they have a reasonable explanation. Cause if they don't know why I am going to be pissed.

"oh yes it is the standard 3.5mm jack" then they whisper "only works with some headsets", FAIL.

Alien987 · Mar 12, 2012

Have any of you compared the included headphones plug with one of the non working ones to see if they look similar or not?

I'm starting to get worried and thinking of canceling my preorder that is supposed to ship tomorrow...

Edit: Although after rethinking my question, that won't make a difference, both standards look similar... Hmm, I don't like the idea of having headaches when using different headsets...

bustervic · Mar 12, 2012

They look the same. I had a buddy with a SGSII and his Samsung headphones work in the S AND he can use the sennheisers. Lame.

gunzy · Mar 13, 2012

Headsets

HK being the crazy place that it is has a whole bunch of the headphones shops in the computer center, so I went around trying out a whole bunch of the headsets to see which ones work (HMV also does this too).

My testing included playing music and making phone calls and seeing if the button on the headset works.

Not an exhaustive list:
Sennheisers/Adidas are out (sucks cuz I want a pair of running ones)
Sony's are out (friggin' annoying)
Most that are iphone compatible are out

Jays One+ work (These are specific for Android) I got this pair
Marshall Minor FX work - I should have got this pair

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