Drain your battery in style: Motorola Bluetooth Stereo Headphones HT820
May 18, 2007 Posted by Liz in : Reviews , trackback,
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In my experience, you can’t exercise with earbuds. In fact, I blame earbuds for at least 20 pounds of body weight I could easily be rid of if only they made earbuds for girls. This is why I’ve been searching for wireless headphones since I first began to… legally download music.
Finally, I found the Motorola Bluetooth Wireless Stereo Headphones, which are great. They claim only 30 feet of range but I have transmitted easily across my office of probably around 1000 feet or more, with interference from other Bluetooth devices. It’s nice to put my phone in my pocket and forget it’s even there(until it heats up to the point that you can see the glow from my pocket.)
Bluetooth, however, is notorious for draining batteries.
The story of Bluetooth is this: Bluetooth was a general, or a pirate, or some guy with a ship who sailed the high seas while they were untamed and factionalized. Until a great enemy, or the need to trade, or something equally uniting caused him to bring most, or all, or a few of the factions together to become a powerful force. Geeks were so inspired, or misinformed, or just half-remembered something about this guy, that they united all the myriad wireless transfer protocols (other than wifi Internet) together under one banner: Bluetooth.
Great huh? Mostly. It unifies most devices in their ability to connect wirelessly and securely, but all those protocols are all being simultaneously invoked. It’s like loading every printer driver in the world to talk to one printer. Or at least some of them. Or a few. Still, more than you need, and that drains batteries. Drains ‘em bad, at least on small devices like the Helio Drift and small battery-powered headphones. From my phone, I can get about 6 good hours of music before it dies at just the right time before my car breaks down, or probably about 8 hours of talk time - but who talks for 8 hours a day on their phone? I mean, damn, meet up with some people in real life!
Anyway, they’re generally comfortable but built for someone slightly larger than me, so they are a little heavy, but they are the lightest of the varieties I could find at Best Buy. They’re generally comfortable until about the 5th hour of blogging in a row, then they start making my ears sore. Being that they won’t last much longer than that (unless my phone is plugged in , then they last a good 10 hours on their own), it’s not a big deal.
They stay on my ears fairly well while running on a treadmill, and even better when I’m actually moving, and are great while running around doing housework. They stay on while headbanging, which is hard, but because they are wrap style they tend to really stick with ya.
Because they stick with me I’ve never dropped them, so I don’t know much about durability, but I do remember that the last Bluetooth headphones I had started falling apart around 2 weeks; these still are as solid as when I bought them. Possibly because of the velvet pouch they include in the package as a carrying case. It’s nice. I was going to use a Crown Royal bag.
At 99 bucks (64 for me, thanks employee discount!), they’re worth it. Or at least the 64. If you buy them at Best Buy, use your Reward Zone points.
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HT820 bluetooth earphones are a piece of crap. Mine cut out at about 20 feet and they keep disconnecting from the other bluetooth device about every two minutes. Have you ever tried to listen to a song and right in the middle it goes silent for 4 or 5 seconds, then resumes in a different part of the song?
These suck big time. What a waste of money.
It sounds like you bought yours from an ebay chinese supplier.
Mine works great.. I bought if from AMAZON.COM
update the firmware,it works wonders……