Customer Reviews

Nokia Hands-Free Earbud Headset Kit for Nokia Phones

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I've had the earbud for several months now. The sound quality is excellent - better than my handset. However, the foam cover for the earpiece fell off the first day, and the design doesn't have any mechanism to hold it in place in your ear. Because of this, it keeps falling out of my ear while I'm driving, which makes it even more distracting than holding the handset!

Yes, I am one of those "people" that love the headset, but also hate it. I have a Nokia phone and have this headset. Like many others, it does the job for short conversations. But, for longer conversations my ear starts to ache and I find myself taking it in and out of my ear.

Is there any better though? Until I find a better product with the good sound quality it has, I will keep using this product.

Recomend Product...but the earpiece is quite uncomfortable after a period of time. Makes chating on the go easier. Only need your keypad to dial number. Convenient button on wire that connects the earpiece to the phone allows you to answer calls without fumbeling to find a button on your keypad while driving. Would reccomend if you receive alot of calls while on the go.

While I really appreciate this accessory and the freedom of movement that it allows (no more crick in the neck while trying to precariously clench my phone between ear and shoulder), the ear bud itself is uncomfortable. I can't hold a coversation for longer than a few minutes without my ear beginning to ache. I thought at first that I must just have ears that are an anomoly of nature, but after sharing my peeve with friends, I've found that quite a few other folks have the same gripe about this product.

I was pretty cynical about the voice quality possible via a microphone that sits a fair distance away from my mouth. But I was proven wrong. This thing works great. Not only can I hear the person on the other end of the phone with great clarity, they can hear me. Even when I'm in my car with the window open, it completely shields out the background noise. I've had expensive installed car kits where this is not the case.

Also, I find the earpiece to be quite comfortable and secure.

My only gripe is that earbuds in general (no, I'm not ragging on Nokia) encourage people to look like dorks, walking around town talking into the air! Get a clue, people!

Within the past 5 months of having my cell phone, I have had to replace the hands-free earbud on the average of one every other week. The main reason: POOR ENGINEERING &/or DESIGN. Every time you would sit down with the phone on your belt clip, the point of contact is always at the base of the phone right where your headset is attached, thus causing the fine wires coming out of the attachment to break. Also, the two plastic tabs that attach the headset to the cell phone are always breaking off ruining the use of the headset. These are the two major set backs on the "Design." Just briefly a note on comfort of the earpiece. After a couple of uses, you will loose the padding on the earbud. After a hour or so with the earpiece placed properly into the ear it becomes very uncomfortable thus having to switch ears and causing the mic to be further from one's mouth making it very difficult for the other party to hear. My solution: Redesign the earpiece to the shape of one's inner ear. The attachment needs to be either a ninety degree angle (so wires come out to the side not bottom) or built to mount on the side of cell phone. After many e-mails to Nokia and calls they still will not accept the idea that it is ideed a poor design.

While this device's output sound quality benefits from the fact that it sits literally millimeters from your eardrum, don't believe the hype about the microphone, which dangles too far from the mouth to function adequately. For maximal mike sound quality, you'll have to hold the mike near your mouth. Not a great look in traffic.

Did I mention the flimsy construction? Expect to replace this device every 3-4 months. If the connector doesn't fall apart, the earbud disintegrates. That said, genuine Nokia quality is way better than that rendered by tinny knockoffs, and the audio quality is also far superior to that produced by the marginally more sophisticated devices that hook over your ear and place a shoddy mini-boom before your mouth.

I'm still waiting to hear if these gizmos really cut down the celphone radiation that causes eye and brain disorders. BTW, I'm about to buy my third one of these.

The way that the headset connects to the nokia phone is poorly designed. The connector is so flimsy, that it breaks easily. I have had to to purchase 3 new headsets in one year. The Motorola Startac has a much better design for headsets.

After a year and a half, I am only on my second earbud. This has proved an indispensable accessory for me. My only real complaint about it is that the ringer tone does not sound in my ear. If my phone is clipped to my belt in a noisy environment such as a hockey game, I cannot hear it ring. All I get is a faint click in the earpiece, which could also be caused by the low-battery notification. In the car, however, it is great. I use it with the Nokia car holster and I find the combination quite convenient. The plug on this is prone to damage easily, but my current one continues to work adequately despite a slight amount of damage. I could also wish to boost the sound level a little, but the people I am talking to have no trouble hearing me. It took me a little while to get used to the microphone working fine despite being well away from my mouth.

I had a time getting used to the earpiece but it did help me use the phone safely in the car. But the jack used to connect it to the phone is flimsy. The caveat mentioned in the description came true for me - the prongs on each side of the jack just snapped off one day. Now I can't plug it in the phone. I wish someone had warned me. I would have been more careful.