The iPhone hands-free beats the tangled Sony Ericsson nastiness hands-down
Hands-free kits and me have never really got on very well. I kept buying Jabras but just couldn’t get on with them. All I can say is that I found them more trouble than they were worth.
And when something you paid £80 for gets tossed aside just a couple of months after you bought it, something’s not right.
And if bluetooths don’t work for you, all you’re left with is a wired hands-free. The one that came with my Sony Ericsson was rubbish from the start.
The earbuds are the wrong shape and too big. It’s like trying to push a plate in your ear. The whole hands-free tangles itself into a bird’s nest as soon as you put it into your pocket. But at least the quality’s good.
For some reason, I bought another Sony Ericsson hands-free the other day – this time the version with a jack plug half way down its length so it comes apart into two pieces – and it’s even longer! More wire to get impossibly tangled – which of course it did the moment I bought it and seconds before my phone rang.
I’d started to think that – like a toilet seat that an ordinary human being can change successfully – a usable hands-free was pretty much an impossibility.
Until I got an iPhone a few days ago complete with a a hands-free that doesn’t tangle, sounds great and just works.
Which one is it Sam? I need one. My old blue tooth which BTW worked fine with my blackberry doesn’t work so fine with my iPhone.
Try plugging it into your macbook pro for skype, it works as a full headset mic included. I don’t know why apple don’t advertise this more!
Jorge, I don’t know what it’s called – other than it’s the one that comes with the iPhone…?
Steve, that’s a neat-o little bonus (especially since I don’t pay for the iPhone, work does!)
Sam, this is Steve, (with a very sim-lee-ar surname), try the £60 Sennheiser version that is made to work with the eee-phone, has rubber ear buds, better drivers and doesn’t feel like the small plates being shoved in your ears that the apple set does… Jorge, worth the money over the apple ones, (tho’ apple just launched a new set of twin-driver models that work with both eee-phone AND the new eee-pod shuffle for about £55 that look good?) Love, Sam’s tech-y, (and younger), brother, Steve.
Folks, introducing my brother Steve – right about everything except his age.
@ Stephen Spence – You said “Try plugging it into your macbook pro for skype, it works as a full headset mic included. I don’t know why apple don’t advertise this more!”
How does this work? I tried but it just takes the macbook pro’s built-in internal mic because the hands free can only connected to one port – line-in or the line out. Is there a work around? Please tell me, I really need this. Thank you!
When you plug your headset mic into a MacBook even though it only goes into the headphones socket it does both jobs – headset AND mic! Bargain.
If you’re only plugging in conventional headphones (as opposed to headphones/mic combination hands-free) then the MacBook will default to the internal mic.