A few days ago, I almost smashed into a garbage truck when I tried reaching for my ringing phone and swerved the steering wheel. Thus, I resolved to buy another bluetooth headset. My old one, Sony Ericsson HBH-602, has provided me quite a service since 2005 and now the battery’s life cycle has been fully exhausted.

After searching for other bluetooth headsets, I came across Jabra BT2010. I immediately liked the in-ear design. In a few minutes, I paid for it and rushed out of the store with the package in hand. I gotta get it charged! hehe!

Jabra BT2010 Features:

• Talk time: Up to 7 hours
• Standby time: Up to 200 hours
• Charging time: Approximately 2 hours
• Weight: 11 grams (0.39 oz)
• Dimensions: L50mm X W22mm X D24mm
• Battery type: Rechargeable lithium polymer
• Bluetooth compliance: Bluetooth version 2.0 specifications with EDR & eSCO
• Supported Bluetooth profiles: Bluetooth headset and hands-free profiles
• Operating range: 10 meters

This is different from my Sony Ericsson HBH-602 bluetooth headset. This headset has an in-ear design with optional ear hook. This means the headset plugs directly into your ear and the optional ear hook provides you the security if you need it.

Bluetooth with EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) provides higher speed data transfer and lower power consumption.

Bluetooth with eSCO (Extended Synchronous Connections) provides higher audio quality by allowing retransmissions of corrupted packets.

This headset has both features so expect good quality and longer battery life.

By the way, I haven’t tried it yet but the manual mentioned that you can also use a USB cable to charge the headset. Well, the USB cable is not included but you can use the USB cables commonly found with digital cameras.

In-Ear (without ear hook)

With Ear Hook

A few months ago, I used to bring several phones for testing purposes. After testing, I gave them back. It was difficult for me to be using several phones and getting confused which one was ringing.

However, I just bought a second phone for personal use. The Sony Ericsson Z520i. This is my backup phone to my Sony Ericsson P910i.

I merely wanted a simple phone and nothing fancy. But I got a great bargain so I got it.

The contents of the box are as follows: Z520i handset, standard li-on battery, wall charger, and a user manual.

Features:

• StyleUpCover - Lets you create a personalized style-up cover for your Sony Ericsson phone
• Bluetooth Connectivity - Allows for handsfree communication and wireless file transfers
• Media Player - Enjoy videos and music
• VideoDJ - Edit videos in your mobile phone
• 0.3 Megapixel Camera with 4x digital zoom - Allows for simple photos and videos
• Light Effects - There are 8 different light effects/pattern which you can assign as default or to specific callers

So far I’m quite impressed with the phone. Although some people were not really happy with the phone, they might have expected a lot. For me, I was just looking for a simple backup phone and this phone just fulfills my need.

My company gave me my service phone, a Sony Ericsson P910i. They promised me a Sony Ericsson P990i but it wasn’t gonna be released until the 2nd Quarter of 2006. Since we still have one last brand new stock of the P910i, then they “convinced” me to accept the P910i for a while. Hey, it’s still a wonderful phone. And who am I to complain for a free phone. Hehehe!

The contents of the box are as follows: P910 handset, standard battery, travel charger, 32MB Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick adapter, SyncStation with USB, stereo portable handsfree, carry case, wrist strap, cleaning cloth, 1 extra stylus, flip replacement, flip replacement tool kit, PC Suite CD, applications and content CD, user manuals.

I’ll update this post as soon as I get to play with it more.

As a gift to my nephew for doing good in school, I brought him to Hong Kong last week. While we were there, I was able to buy a neat product… Sony Ericsson’s HBH-602 Bluetooth Headset.

At first I wanted to buy a bluetooth headset from an unknown manufacturer. But I changed my mind and opted to buy from a manufacturer that I know has several service centers back home. What is to service in a bluetooth headset? Well, I just wanted peace of mind and compatibility with most phones. :)

Here are the features:

• Talk time: up to 4 hours
• Standby time: up to 125 hours
• Range: up to 10 meters

Included in the box:

• Bluetooth Headset HBH-602 with blue style-up cover
• Travel/Wall Charger CST-13
• 2 extra style-up covers: black and white
• Neck loop
• User`s manual

Compatibility:

• BlackBerry: 7100t, 7100v, 7100x, 7290
• Motorola: A1000, A830, A835, A925, E1000, E398, E550, MPx, MPx220, RAZR V3, T280i, V500, V525, V545, V547, V550, V600, V620, V635, V80
• NEC: e616
• Nokia: 3230, 3650, 6230, 6230i, 6260, 6310i, 6600, 6630, 6650, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6810, 6820, 6822, 7280, 7600, 7610, 7700, 7710, 8910, 8910i, 9300, 9500, N-Gage, N-Gage QD
• O2: XDA II, XDA IIi, XDA IIs, XDA Mini
• Orange: M1000, SPV C500, SPV E200
• Panasonic: X70, X700
• Sagem: myX-8
• Samsung: D500
• Sendo: X
• Sharp: 802, 902, GX15, GX25, GX30, GX30i
• Siemens: S55, S65, SK65, SX1
• Sony Ericsson: K700i, P800, P900, P910, S700i, T39, T610, T630, T68, T68i, V800, Z600

For this year’s personal xmas gift… I bought myself a Sony Ericsson K700i. It’s a long story but to make it short, I decided on the K700i because of the richness of its features while the price is acceptable compared to a Sony Ericsson P910 (which is my ultimate dream phone).

Quick Features:

• GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz
• Supports Bluetooth connectivity
• 41MB internal memory (Asia Version)
• Built-in digital VGA camera with flash and video
• Java platform Support

I’ve been playing with it for the past few days and I am really glad I bought it. Actually, I was hesitant to buy it at first but my sister “forced” me to buy it. She said I would keep on nagging her about it if I didn’t buy it. Hehehe!

Anyway, one of the things I liked about the K700i was the mp3 capability. I also liked the video capability especially that it can read 3gp and mp4 formats. Right now I have 8 mp3s and 3 music videos.

Another feature I’ve always wanted to do was to sync my phone to any computer. Thanks to Float’s Mobile Agent and a bluetooth dongle, I am able to sync my K700i’s phonebook, folder files, profiles, and especially the message folders (inbox, outbox, drafts, and archives) to my office PC and laptop.

With the features, price, and size of the phone it really is worth buying this phone.