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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Outstanding bluetooth headset
I have been trying unsuccessfully to find a bluetooth head set that worked well for 3 years. My problem during this time is that most of my phone calls are long i.e. 10-20 minutes and some longer. I have found a few headsets including three Plantronics units that work great but either drop the call or the connection with the phone after being on a call for over 5-10...
Published 22 months ago by S. Crawford
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Lot's of static, VERY poor range
This is the third ER product I have owned, and while I am am usually very pleased, with this one I am completely disappointed. The headset has a very poor range, even from a few feet away from my phone there is a lot of static coming through the earpiece (ie phone in my shirt pocket, headset in my ear). I can barely hear the person I am talking to. The person says they...
Published 19 months ago by Trevor Jorgensen
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Outstanding bluetooth headset, May 10, 2008
I have been trying unsuccessfully to find a bluetooth head set that worked well for 3 years. My problem during this time is that most of my phone calls are long i.e. 10-20 minutes and some longer. I have found a few headsets including three Plantronics units that work great but either drop the call or the connection with the phone after being on a call for over 5-10 minutes. To date, I have tried 7 headsets from three manufacturers with no success. None of them will last longer than 20 continuous minutes and most don't sound very good.
I saw the etyBLU unit was coming out and was eager to try it since I love my ER4p's that I have owned for 5 years now. They were finally available and I purchased one hoping that someone got it right. Boy, did Etymotic get this right. This headset is GREAT! My second call using them lasted 40 minutes and the headset worked just fine. Also, I used the extended boom with the noise canceling and the other conference call participants thought I sounded much better than when I used my other headsets. I was also driving at the time which I usually wasn't when I used the other headsets. My hats off to the engineers at Etymotic for this headset.
I have tried the unit with and without the boom and found that it works best with the boom. I also had to swap out the blue ear flange for the larger grey since it fit my ear better. I haven't needed to use ear hook so I obviously have no experience to relate. Battery life is good to great. I have been able to be on several calls lasting over 2 hours without the battery giving out. This is not something I could say about the Motorola or the Plantronics devices. All of the units state that they have many hours of talk time but usually it translates to 2-3 hours at best. The Plantronics was the weakest at under 2 hours. I haven't run the Etymotic until its battery is dead so I can't provide total talk time but it is at least 3 hours.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Finally a Bluetooth earpiece for convertible owners!, July 11, 2008
I love driving ragtops - the wind in your hair, the sun on your face - but if you use a cell phone and need a headset - you are pretty much out of luck. I got a great response out of the Shure Quietspot earpiece - but it was wired and had no control button on the earpiece itself - all calls had to be generated through the phone. It was a decent compromise. I tried a variety of Bluetooth earpieces but they either were too quiet on my end to hear through the wind noise, or the person on the other end of the call couldn't hear me. The Etyblu fixed that! The boom mic is clear as a bell and people don't realize I'm calling from a convertible. The sound quality on my end is great. I did have some problems getting it to fit right. Frankly I had to use the soft rubber insert with the earclip to get it to stay in right - the flanged in-ear adapters just didn't cut it for me. However, it is easy enough to put on and it is worth the extra second to use it. There is occasionally a slight bit of static noise, but not much. Battery life seems really good so far. I am really pleased with this device! If it wasn't for the fit issues I'd give it a solid "5" but it's really better than a Four in my book!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Lot's of static, VERY poor range, August 11, 2008
This is the third ER product I have owned, and while I am am usually very pleased, with this one I am completely disappointed. The headset has a very poor range, even from a few feet away from my phone there is a lot of static coming through the earpiece (ie phone in my shirt pocket, headset in my ear). I can barely hear the person I am talking to. The person says they can hear me ok until I get approximately 10 feet from the phone, then the static in the earpiece is so bad I cannot hear anything and the person on the other end says they can make out every other word at best. Within tens of seconds at this distance, the headset eventually disconnects from the phone. I don't know if I got a faulty model, but I am very disappointed with this >$100 useless piece of electronics. I will be in contact with ER to see if they have a solution to offer... maybe (I hope) I just got a faulty unit.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Very Close..., June 6, 2008
OK, here's the deal. I need a blue tooth because I'm either writing or on the run and wires just get in my way. I've had my Etyblu for two days now and it has mostly met my high expectations. I initially went through all of the various ear pieces, after watching the video "how to" insert your ear piece on Ety's website. So I knew how to install. And right up front I'll tell you that the only shortcoming that I have found is the insertion of the ear piece. I did after many different config's find an acceptable match. The smallest ear insert partially inserted using the over the ear hook. I'd give it about a 7 out of 10 for comfort but you do lose a little audio quality compared to the deep insertion ear piece.
I simply couldn't stand having the thing jammed in my ear. It was uncomfortable and you definitely lose half of your hearing. That said, if I need it in high noise environments, I can stand it for around 30 minutes. I could hear clearly standing in a 40 mph wind with higher gusts.
Now for the really great part. Your callers will be able to hear you perfectly. Standing in a 40 mph wind and with the foam wind hood installed on the boom mic my callers said that they could barely hear the wind noise and that it did not impede our conversation. And I didn't have to scream into the mic. Excellent and just what I want. I spend a lot of time in airports and with the Ety I can have private conversations for a change.
I tried and returned the Jawbone 2 after three days. It would not fit and the sound on both ends was poor. I will not be returning my Ety. It may not be perfect but it is the best out right now. PS-in regard to those who have said that the outgoing sound quality and volume is poor. You must have the noise cancellation hole facing your mouth and the mic hole facing away from you. Outgoing sound quality and volume is a 9.9 out 10. You'll love it, with the boom mic installed!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Proprietary USB Cable (yet again), January 27, 2009
This is a great BT headset with one BIG exception: it has a proprietary USB cable. Why do we have USB standards when many BT vendors make their own. This device would be perfect if it supported mini-USB on the headset side.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Best Bluetooth Headset. Period!, May 21, 2008
I recently bought the etyBlu headset after using a variety of different ones over the years. I am currently using the etyBlu paired with a Blackberry Pearl 8120. This is by far the best headset I've ever used. Better than a Jawbone (I had one for a year) and even better than the New Jawbone (I bought it earlier in the week and already returned it).
The etyBlu sounds fantastic. Incoming sound is crystal clear and loud. Out going sound is reported by my callers to be good. The etyBlu fits snugly in your ear and stays put without the need for the optionally included over ear clip.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Amazing Blue Tooth Headset!, May 18, 2008
The EtyBLU is amazing!
I make most of my phone calls on my commute to and from work, and being on the road for up to 2-3 hours a day (and living in a HANDS FREE only state) with out a BT (blue tooth) headset I can't make any calls. I have been using Etymotic products for the past 3 years (ER*4P, ER*6i & their ear plugs), and can't get enough of them. This BT headset continues the trend. Driving in my car with my windows down, music at a relatively loud volume, and traveling around 65, I was able to use the voice operated commands to place a call, and when my caller picked up, they commented on how clear the conversation was...they were convinced I was locked away in padded room! Not only were they able to hear me, but with the noise isolation earphone (my preference is the foam insert) I was able to hear them crystal clear while having all of the ambient noise around me at a relatively high dB level.
Without the boom mic...not as impressive. I did the same test, music up relatively loud and placed a call. It picked up my voice fine for the voice commands, however I could hear some feed back--heard my music and a slight echo of my voice. Also both my callers that had heard me on it with the mic b4, could hardly hear me over the music....said they could hear that I was speaking, but couldn't make out my voice with out straining.
During the same call I went ahead an attached the mic, annd continued to talk with the windows down and music up, and they could hear me crystal, and the feedback in my ear was gone as well.
If you're going to use this always where you can keep the mic attached, I would highly recommend it.
I used to have a Motorola over the ear BT set, and this totally blows it out of the water, both in comfort and quality. I'm no longer asking my callers to repeat what they're saying, or rolling up my windows and turning off the music just because I'm on a call.
Well worth the money!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Good, but not great., July 9, 2009
My primary goal in getting this headset was to find a convertible-friendly headset which I could hear clearly and talk on with reasonable clarity. The etyBLU, as an isolating, in-ear headset with a variety of flanged and foamed ear-pieces, worked beautifully for hearing, and using the boom mic with the wind-screen foam allowed callers to hear me, even when driving my rumbly-mufflered Miata with the roof down.
But it's not all perfect. The device is horribly expensive, the in-ear flange makes it a very large and odd shape (the ear-hook makes it even more huge and awkward), there is no noise cancellation without the boom mic, there is no wind negation without that rather bulky foam mic-guard, the Bluetooth range is a pathetic 4 feet, and the charging interface uses the same interface as the boom mic. It's very hard to transport it, unless you have a multitude of pockets or a purse/satchel of some kind, due to the shape, and the foam mic-guard constantly pops right off. Alas, due to the odd shape, I lost the device after only a month of use. I will not be purchasing another.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
static, August 24, 2008
This is the best noise canceling bluetooth I have tried, but the static when your phone is on your belt or if you get more than a few feet away is unacceptable. I have paired this with several phones with the same resulting static. I'm rma'ing it to etymotics for replacement. Crossing my fingers, I wan't this to work. Everyone I talk to when my phone is on the dash in front of me in a noisy truck say it sounds better than even my wired Shure quietspot, which was the best noise canceling unit so far.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Sounds good, clumsy fit, July 9, 2008
Etymotic makes some of the best headphones around, so when I saw they made a bluetooth headset I had to try it. As expected the sound quality was exceptional and it paired quickly and easily with my phone. It can be charged through a USB port which makes it great for travel. Unfortunately I found that it doesn't wear easily or comfortably. Putting it on was awkward and it was too heavy with the boom microphone to keep it on. I ended up buying a Plantronics Voyager 510 that is excellent.
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