Review: A $130 phone headset helpfully talks back
August 26th, 2008 By PETER SVENSSON , AP Technology Writer
A Bluetooth earpiece by BlueAnt is photographed in New York, Monday Aug. 25, 2008. Tuesday marked the launch of the first headset that speaks our language, literally. The $130 V1 from BlueAnt Wireless recognizes spoken English commands, and responds, also in English. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
(AP) -- Bluetooth wireless headsets for mobile phones are puzzling: We're supposed to control them with couple of unmarked buttons and get feedback from a single indicator light.
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Now we just assume they are obnoxious pricks. I friggin hate these headsets. We have no cell phone etiquette as it is! Any device that makes it easier for the woman in front of me at the grocery store to yammer on about her dogs 'chase' and 'madison' should be destroyed, and the inventor subjected to clerking at Albertsons.
I can totally understand these for use where you are going to be on the phone for an extended period of time or need free hands for writing things down/typing (NOT DRIVING), but the conversations that generally go into that blue light... grrr...