So I have 6 different Bluetooth headsets of various types between 40-160EUR attempts and all 6 for various reasons (you can see everything here in the corresponding reviews read) sent back.
The sound was not so much the problem as the handling. ALWAYS has to - in spite of Bluetooth - dangle a more or less thin and more or less long cord around the neck. The lands sometime between sweaty neck and bodice and when you move your head, it pulls the listener. That annoys me mightily.
Only then I found it here. The design is particularly because you do not have cable, but this fairly rigid and short tape "which bears fixed at the head, rather than dangling.
Bluetooth:
The Bluetooth pairing goes smoothly. I was used from the first test dropouts from all 6 headsets, these ones that have but one track come to me even better before. Was it at the other no problem, so there is even less of a (mobile phone is the way in a hip bag over the rear).
Note: none of the tested headsets could adjust the volume on your Android phone. The description sounds as apparently general I do that with Android, the iPhone already, I have not tested.
It makes the phone so at maximum volume (goes with me automatically thanks Llama, so soon it is coupled with the headset), and then provides the listener just quieter. Not perfect, but not the fault of Plantronics and the bottom line is not a problem.
One more thing: a firmware update, moreover directly via Bluetooth - that's Premiere! The update (version of B to D) went smoothly, which has brought it I could not tell, do not care, after all.
Call:
works. Point. Not better or worse than the other. This is even more remarkable than that these things are indeed real maximum far from the mouth. I want while running but eh rather have my peace, so for me it is more of a marginal phenomenon.
Fit:
due to the design I can not imagine that these things fit anyone NOT me. Explanation see next paragraph.
Design / sound / comfort:
here I have to go back a little further:
Shure SE325 earplugs sit my thanks-like foam bombproof in the ear and seal this totally off. One can thus run along the main road while listening to soft classical music.
The 6 tested BT handset is also expressed in his ear, but not with Ohropaxschaumstoff but normal plastic. This has the advantage that they seal halfway, just no comparison to the Shure, but a bit. However, the disadvantage is that they can easily move to any movement in the ear, what one perceives as a change of sound character and feels when they fell right out of the ear. If they do not usually anyway, although it is annoying, it is tempting to cram ever after. If you then sweats something, then it is even worse. This was not a solution to run for me.
The Plantronics now move on completely different end of the spectrum: they keep not even begin to tightly! This is currently already a great familiarization. Classical hear along the main street, you can forget, no matter how loud. But I have not spoken this word to me nice if my enthusiasm and now can the abgewinnen 2 great advantages:
1) the sound is tuned! And they sound really fabulous !! If you hold down ear has natural 5x as much bass, only then does that sound terrible. No, they are definitely intended for the open operation and develop in such a though no Tiefbaßorgien, but that's what comes super accurate and blends perfectly into the rest of the frequency spectrum. In other words, it is just as much bass as the better of the other BT phones, but ALWAYS, not only when they seal just good.
2) the fact that they are never even close, you never feel that you are slipping, ergo you do not want to readjust the time. And that's if you please, the biggest advantage of those things ever !! Peace of art while running!
Operation:
OK, where a lot of light, there is also a bit of shadow. On the one hand you can live with it, but if it were not really gone much stupid to another:
With the same key with the turning louder, turning even quieter, namely by staying longer on it. First, somewhere long draufzubleiben in sports anyway annoying, secondly works only moderately, because one does not perceive the measure of Light becoming equal. So you will usually be quiet and then turn louder again in connection with the same key. This is so stupid that I would pull it 3-4 points alone, but after I'm so glad to have found a workable solution, I remain happy at points maximum.
Furthermore, we not only have the keys with long-click occupied, but also with Double Click. Long-click on a button will back skip track, double-click on the same button will skip track before after.
And the greatest irony: these things have 4 buttons, that's more than any other - what it all easily and intuitively with just 3 buttons (!).
That it. When reaching the max Volume Volume maximum speaks is also dispensable, other cheep as simple discreet.
Battery:
Absolute requirement for me is charging via micro-USB. This is true here. Charging is confirmed by LED and takes to instructions 2.5 hours. Furthermore, the socket is evidently very well sealed. Super!
The battery life I have not tested to the maximum, 6 hours to reach the all the other, this creating any case well, that's all I need.
Processing, accessories:
the neoprene bag which can be used simultaneously as an arm-pocket for your mobile phone is nice and perfectly processed. Better a case would have been to me, where the unnecessary for me bracelets are not there. If I wanted to use the bag, I would annoy me since it is minimally too small for my LG G2. The processing of the handset itself is perfect and the appearance of the things I find unbeaten awesome. The LED is lit around the keys scary smart.
In addition:
since I have Bluetooth handset in the house the first time I use the BT function of my notebooks and tablets and even considering to buy me for the desktop computer a motherboard with Bluetooth - it's just so incredibly convenient !!!
So bottom line remains unrestricted buy recommendation to all those who hate the clutter during sport!
