Customer Reviews

OEM Motorola HT820 Bluetooth Wireless Stereo Headphones

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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.

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.

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

I can't rate the HT820 yet because I have not purchased it yet. I was concerned about the A2DP issue and whether or not my v710 was in fact A2DP ready. After searching the net for hours I found that my v710 is A2DP ready.

Here is a Product Compatibility list:

Product Overview

Motorola HT820 Stereo Bluetooth Headset

REQUIRES BLUETOOTH A2DP ENABLED AUDIO DEVICE FOR MP3 PLAYBACK

Product Specification

Motorola music-focused Bluetooth products eliminates the clutter of cables and provides Bluetooth connections for up to 10m (30 feet) - delivering flexible, high-quality, hands-free communication and entertainment. Music automatically pauses when a call comes in and when the call ends, the music resumes play. The intuitive headset features controls for both the music source and mobile phone - making it easy to play, pause or stop a favorite song, as well as receive, answer or end calls wirelessly.

Product Compatibility

Audiovox

Audiovox PPC-6700

BenQ

BenQ P50 (unlocked)

Blackberry

Blackberry 8700g for T-mobile

Cingular

Cingular 2125 Cingular 8125 Smartphone

Eten

Eten G500 Windows Mobile GPS Smartphone

Eten M600 Pocket PC (unlocked)

HP (Hewlett-Packard)

HP iPAQ hw6900 Pocket PC Mobile Messenger (unlocked)

i-mate

i-mate SP5 Smartphone (unlocked)

i-mate SP5m Music Smartphone (unlocked)

LG

LG CG300 LG VX9800

Motorola

Motorola A1000 (unlocked)

Motorola A1200 Black (unlocked)

Motorola A1200 Red (unlocked)

Motorola A1200 White (unlocked)

Motorola A630 (unlocked)

Motorola A925 (unlocked)

Motorola E1000 (unlocked)

Motorola E398 (Unlocked)

Motorola E398 White (unlocked)

Motorola L2 Silver (unlocked)

Motorola L6 (unlocked)

Motorola L6 Black (unlocked)

Motorola L6 Pink (unlocked)

Motorola MPX220 (unlocked)

Motorola MPx220 Black (unlocked)

Motorola PEBL U6 Black (unlocked)

Motorola PEBL U6 Blue (unlocked)

Motorola PEBL U6 Fire Red (unlocked)

Motorola PEBL U6 Green (unlocked)

Motorola PEBL U6 Orange (unlocked)

Motorola PEBL U6 Pink (unlocked)

Motorola Q Smartphone (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3 (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3 Black Special Edition (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3 Blue (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3 Cosmic Blue (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3 Limited Edition (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3 Pink (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3 Satin Pink (unlocked)

Motorola RAZR V3c

Motorola Razr V3c Pink

Motorola Razr V3i (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3x Black (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3x Blue (unlocked)

Motorola Razr V3x Pink (unlocked)

Motorola ROKR e1 (unlocked)

Motorola ROKR E1 Black (unlocked)

Motorola ROKR E1 Cingular Locked

Motorola ROKR E2 Black (unlocked)

Motorola SLVR L7 (unlocked)

Motorola SLVR L7 Pink

Motorola SLVR V8 (unlocked)

Motorola V330

Motorola V330 (unlocked)

Motorola V3i Dark Blue (unlocked)

Motorola V3i Maroon (unlocked)

Motorola V3i Violet (unlocked)

Motorola V525 (unlocked)

Motorola V547 (unlocked)

Motorola V551 (unlocked)

Motorola V557

Motorola v600 (unlocked)

Motorola v620 (unlocked)

Motorola V635 (unlocked)

Motorola v710

Motorola V80 (unlocked)

Nokia

Nokia 3230 (unlocked)

Nokia 3250 (unlocked)

Nokia 6111 (unlocked)

Nokia 6111 Pink (unlocked)

Nokia 6111 White/Silver (unlocked)

Nokia 6131 Black (unlocked)

Nokia 6270 Brown (unlocked)

Nokia 6270 Dark Blue (unlocked)

Nokia 6270 White (unlocked)

Nokia 6630 (unlocked)

Nokia 7370 (unlocked)

Nokia 9300i (unlocked)

Nokia E60 Silver Smartphone (unlocked)

Nokia E61 Smartphone (unlocked)

Nokia N70 (unlocked)

Nokia N71 (unlocked)

Nokia N72 Gloss Black (unlocked)

Nokia N73 (unlocked)

Nokia N80 (unlocked)

Nokia N90 (unlocked)

Nokia N91 (unlocked)

Nokia N92 (unlocked)

PalmOne

PalmOne Treo 700P Smartphone

Tungsten T3 64MB PDA

Samsung

Samsung D800 (unlocked)

Samsung D820 (unlocked)

Samsung i320 (unlocked)

Samsung MM-A920

Samsung SCH-A950

Samsung SCH-a970

Samsung SGH-D307

Samsung SGH-D357

Samsung SGH-D520 (unlocked)

Samsung SGH-D600 Edge Red (unlocked)

Samsung SGH-E770 (unlocked)

Samsung SGH-i310 (unlocked)

Samsung SGH-P300 (unlocked)

Samsung SGH-T509 (unlocked)

Samsung SGH-T719 Blackberry Clamshell (unlocked)

Samsung SGH-Z510 Silver (unlocked)

Samsung T609

Siemens

Siemens SL75 Onyx Black (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson K510i (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson K600 (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson K750i (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson K750i Blasted Silver (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson K790i Cybershot Black (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson K800i Cybershot (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson K800i Cybershot (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson M600 Mobile Communicator (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson P990 (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson W850 Walkman Slider (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson W900 White (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson W950i (unlocked)

Sony Ericsson Z525 New Blue (unlocked)

T-Mobile

T-Mobile SDA� Smartphone

Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless XV6700

According to the specifications this headset supports Bluetooth 1.2, as well as the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and the Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP). I could not get any sound to come out when connected with my Sony Ericsson w600i in phone or Walkman mode, and people could not hear me when I called them. I tried every setting possible, read the instructional booklets for each device and the thing still wouldn't to anything when connected. I am guessing that this headset works fantastically with any Motorola device, but as far as I'm concerned this product is guilty of false advertising. After this experience I do not plan on buying any Motorola Bluetooth devices.

This headset comes with a nice travel charger, a patch cord to connect to an alternative audio source and a nice velvet storage bag with sewn in pockets for the above accessories. The sound quality is quite nice and it works perfectly as advertized. I originally set it up with my Krzr K1m with Verizon as my service provider. I soon discovered that the Krzr K1m is not Bluetooth stereo (a2dp) enabled. Even though the phone function worked fine on the headset, I could not get music to play through the headphones at all via Bluetooth. I tried an LGVX8600 and it performed flawlessly with that phone.

Reviewer K. Ramaswamy states in his review that a2dp is a Bluetooth profile and that I can add it to my phone by flashing the ROM. Right. Anybody know what that means or if it is even possible? Personally, I think it is a quality product but I feel deceived because I thought all Bluetooth products were supposed to be compatible. I think the marketing should be as up front with the product's limitations as with it's features.

It has great sound but a little too heavy for my ears. If you wear glasses, it is not a good idea to have the frame sitting on your ears either.

This is a solid product that works well and is easy to setup. The sound quality is good and the design of the unit is well thought out which makes it easy to operate. One thing that I did notice is that when wearing them for long periods it became alittle uncomfortable on my ear. Over all I like this product and I use it alot. I would and have recommend this item to my friends.

These are great Bluetooth Stereo Headphones, but if your buying them to use with the Motorola DC800, then rethink that decision, because you can use other Bluetooth stereo headphones with the DC800. I purchased a Nokia knock-off headset on Ebay, that works perfectly. The knock-off's are made in the Nokia BH503 design, which I imagine the OEM Nokia BH503 would work just as well. Keep this in mind before buying these headphones. Yeah these are great headphones, but Motorola stopped making them. So now all you can find is very costly left overs. And since you can use other stereo Bluetooth head phones with the DC800, then you don't need to spend an insane amount of money on these few left over HT820.

This is a really cool gear, wireless, two in one, "blue tooth and head sets". you can pause your music, forward it, add and reduce the volume and the beats are just right. once charged can go for two days or more. some people might consider this too big for a blue tooth but without having to take out your phone at all times to adjust settings, its totally worth it.