OEM Motorola HT820 Bluetooth Wireless Stereo Headphones

by Motorola

Product Details

• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• ASIN: B00154GNJC
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #97,255 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

For music enthusiasts, the Bluetooth Stereo Headphones HT820 is one of the only solutions that allows you to enjoy your favourite tunes wirelessly and never miss a call.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great buy!!, December 30, 2005

By 

ChicagoMike "Mike" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

I have the HT820 by Motorola and love the product. It has great sound quality. I found that it was easy to hook up to pair with my phone. Unlike the review above I can answer calls and listen to MP3's on my Motorola E815 from Verizon. I also am able to listen to music that is on my laptop while I am studying so I don't disturb my roomate. There is another component that will hook up to your stereo called the DC800 which I want to get but I have not yet. Once I get it I will write a review for that. If you like to listen to music and need headphones that can connect wirelessly to anything bluetooh then this is a perfect buy. Hope this review helps it's my first one.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall great product, March 14, 2006

By 

M. Slutz "Mr Blokhed" (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews
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Do your research. If you're like the previous reviewer who bought the headphones without checking what came with it, well that's your own fault. Be an educated consumer. Still, he is right, they are expensive. Very expensive. I ordered these along with the PC850 direct from Motorola and paid about $210. I didn't get the DC800 because that just hooks up to a TV or home stereo and I listen to music mainly through iTunes anyway. The PC850 and these headphones work perfect with my Dell Inspiron 600m. Sound quality is great and best of all I can do my cooking in the kitchen or dance around the apartment like an idiot while my computer plays the music from my bedroom. They're serious about the 30 feet limit though, take one step past it and the headphones will cut right out. The sound is great all the way up to that point though. Still, I would have liked greater range. At 30 feet you might as well just have regular headphones and considering how expensive these things are, you really have to be into bluetooth or have a need for wireless headphones for these to be worth your while.

As far as pairing it with your phone, I have the Audiovox/UTStarcom XV6700 from Verizon Wireless and I was able to pair the headphones to it so I can walk around listening to my music. The XV6700 doesn't have the A2DP profile so the sound quality isn't nearly as good as with the computer but it works fine and you can use it for making phone calls too. In both cases, if the phone rings it'll give you the option to answer it and pause the music. Expect to freak some people out when they see you talking to yourself though. I'm finding I carry my iPod around with me less now that I can pair these straight to my phone. Great benefit.

Overall, it's a great product though it has its ups and downs (like any piece of technology you buy).

Pros:

-No wires to get caught up in

-Sound quality

-Don't miss phone calls

Cons:

-Range

-Price

Also, there's little things that stopped it from getting 5 stars. Things not big enough to return the product or really complain, but they're just annoying. For example, you can change tracks with the buttons on the right ear, but only if iTunes is the application you have selected. So if you're in another program you can't change tracks or pause the music and you actually have to pull up iTunes or turn the headphones completely off. Really annoying if someone comes to the door and you're not around your computer. Volume controls still work fine regardless. Weird. Also, if you want to turn off the headphones and play the music through your speakers, you actually have to disconnect the headphones, exit iTunes completely and pull it back up or else the sound won't come out of your speakers. Doubly weird. Again these aren't horrible flaws, but they're just annoying and seem like such basic things that you wonder who was designing and testing the product.

Also be sure to disconnect the headphones from your computer if you're listening to music on your phone or you'll hear some serious static for about 5 seconds once you reach 100 meters and it goes completely out of range of the PC850. Trust me, you won't do it twice.

And that is all.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Make sure your player supports A2DP!!, April 30, 2006

By 

Daniel S. Winger (Verona, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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I just bought the Motorola Bluetooth Headset HT820s for listening to audio books played as .mp3 files on my HP iPAQ hx4705 PDA. And, after some messing around I have them working. And for listening to books, the sound quality via bluetooth is acceptable.

BUT, for music, because my PDA doesn't support the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP), a bluetooth sub-protocol, they sound terribly tinny!

Interestingly, if I turn off bluetooth and instead connect the headphones to my PDA with the supplied signal cable, my opinion is that music sounds very good via the HT820s!

So, I recommend these headphones quite highly IF your audio source supports A2DP. If not, skip bluetooth headphones as you'll be disappointed in the pathetic sound quality. Hopefully HP or Microsoft will provide A2DP support for my Pocket Windows 2003-based PDA. But, I'm not holding my breath!

Three things I should add:

1. If you have a bluetooth cellphone, these headphones have a built-in microphone (in the right ear cup) and they'll automatically turn down the tunes and you'll hear your cellphone ring via the headphones, and you can choose to answer it or (if I understand the instructions correctly) send it to voicemail at which point the music will fade back in again.

2. You can buy an accessory (the Motorola DC800 Bluetooth Stereo Transceiver) for these phones that turns almost any audio source, TV, stereo, etc., into an A2DP bluetooth source.

3. Finally, these phones squeeze my ears a little too tightly which makes them uncomfortable.

I hope this is helpful.

Scott Winger