Motorola H500 Bluetooth Headset

This bluetooth is OK, but not the best. I bought it so I could use it while driving mainly. I have since bought a Motorola H700, and it is far far better. It is clearer, and holds the connection to my phone at a greater distance. In my opinion, dont buy the H500 - go for the H700.

Just what I needed for long journeys in the car. Although normally I stop and look at phone to see who phoned me when safe to do so, it is not convenient to do this on the motorways.

Motorola's H500 is small and neat--this is the best and the worst of it:-)

The only bad thing is that, after a few weeks of wearing it on the move, I lost it. I must have forgotten to stick it in my coat pocket when I finished with it and it hasn't been found. Being small and neat may have made it harder to find, I guess.

I liked it enough to buy another one on Ebay...

Being small, it hangs on the cheek--despite this, my friends said that voice quality was pretty good and I was easy to understand, although in noiser fun cars I had to raise my voice a bit to be heard over the engine noise, obviously.

Battery life was excellent and it lasted for days (a few hours per day) between recharges and I never ran it flat, so it may last longer.

It worked with a Motorola and 2 Nokia phones with no problems.

It doesn't have a flip-out mic, so there are no moving parts to go wrong (something which can be a point of failure on these headsets if used a lot).

It's as easy to use as most--stick it on your ear, press and hold the button and it bleeps with 3 rising tones to let me knbow it's on. To turn off, Press for 5 seconds and it bleeps with 3 falling tones to say it's turning off. Quick press for voice dialling, longer press for redial.

To pair it with a phone, turn it off, then press and hold the button after it turns on until there's a series of flashes from the LED. Find it on the phone, enter the code 0000 and that's it.

Ruz

I used this to pair it with my PC as a skype user. Initially I was concerned as to whether the device would communicate with my computer due to mixed reviews. After following the setup intstructions from vista I was on my way. I tried it with skype and it worked fine. Then the next day I tried it again and thats when I hit trouble road. I stayed in trouble road all day and then finally got back on easy street. Basically the device can be a bit tempremental. You cannot run two devices that output sound eg. skype and itunes. You can use it to listen to music from your computer although the sound quality is poor. Occasionally the computer will still occasionally fail to send sound to it (or being pragmatic the device fails to pick it up. The biggest problem though is the range. I think it is standard for all devices but I only get about 3-4Metres before it starts going crackly. THis defeats the purpose of my device as I bought it to use in my bedroom with the computer sitting on the loungeroom table. Oh well. So all in all works well but slightly short of my expectations.