Motorola HT820 Bluetooth Headset
Motorola - 98689HRelease Date: Feb 2005
Ready to move with your music? Just combine your Bluetooth Stereo Headphones with your computer, home stereo or MP3 player and either a Bluetooth Home Stereo adapter or Bluetooth PC adapter. The headphones come complete with easy-to-use controls for hours of hands-free listening. And with a Bluetoot... Read More-enabled phone added to the mix, you can answer calls right from your headphones. Minimize
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Summary of User Reviews
Number of Reviews: 40Positive Reviews: 73%
Negative Reviews: 27%
Negative Review
Reviewed by: somedirection17 on 10-Jul-06
Strengths: great sound quality (when plugged in)
Weaknesses: bluetooth audio sounds like an AM radio signal
Summary: I bought this pair of headphones originally as a wireless option for listening to music on my MacBook Pro, perhaps I was way off but I saw lots of good reviews on here about sound quality. Do not buy these for listening to music via bluetooth!!!! It sounded quite bad, plugged in they sound like great headphones, strong bass and all. But I bought this based on it's bluetooth capabilities and I've been utterly disappointed. I've seen a lot of bluetooth based headphones coming out for the ipod and I'm wondering just how good their sound quality could be as well. If anyone can suggest a better alternative for listening to music wirelessly with a MacBook Pro, I'd love to hear any suggestions.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: old_cotton on 16-Jul-06
Strengths: Sound quality. Battery life.
Weaknesses: A little bit expensive.
Summary: Just received this headphone several days ago and I'm so Happy with it. In fact this is one of the best headphone I have used in terms of sound quality and built quality. To use it to listen music, your cell phone has to support A2DP protocol. You can adjust the volume directly by using volume-adjust botton on the headphone. Also, if your cell phone support AVCRP (Audio Video Control Remote Protocol), you can skip forward/back the songs. I also tested it with my bluetooth-enabled computer, works flawlessly! I even used it make several Skype calls, just perfect. The sound quality are much better than my Sony RF wireless headphone. I've already used it make several calls via cell phone, everyone in the other end said they can hear me clearly. The 17-hour talking time and 500-hour standby time is a huge plus. Highly recommend to everyone who want a high quality bluetooth stereo headphone!
Positive Review
Reviewed by: Andy Drew on 18-Jul-06
Strengths: Range, Performance, QOS, Style
Weaknesses: PC Connectivity Performance
Summary: I am very pleased with this product. It works perfectly with my Motorola RAZR phone. Connecting to my PC is possible, but not as seemless as connecting to wireless phone device, and takes some technical know-how.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: scrybe on 22-Jul-06
Strengths: Integrated, dual connection of Cellphone and Pocket PC, sound quality, easily paired, excellent range, great design and feel, built in mic has great reception.
Weaknesses: A little bulky...
Summary: These headphones are great! A little advertised feature is that you can connect both a pocket pc (or other audio device) and your cell simultaneously. For those of us not wooed by the prospect of an all-in-one device, this is perfect. I have mine connected to a Ipaq 4700(which just released A2DP patch allowing for remote control of WM05)and a RAZR. Perfect match. When I receive a call, an unobtrusive tone plays with the music, you can answer or choose ignore. I did have to turn the headphones off, after answering a call, to reset the connection with my Pocket PC. The mic on the headphones is awesome! Great reception. I'd never go back to wired headphones...incidentally there's an included wire connection for those dinosaur devices (walkmans, cd players) without bluetooth. I also owned a pair of HP Ipaq bluetooth headphones (same thing as a Logitech for Ipod)and I gotta tell you, there's no comparison to the sound quality and the quality of the phones themselves. I bought these to replace the Hp's cracked headband. If you're reading this trying to decide between the cheaper HPs/Logitechs...hands down...these are worth the extra ducketts.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: sendittorobert on 24-Jul-06
Strengths: All around quality headset
Weaknesses: A little on the big side
Summary: Over all its a great headset. Has the stereo feature along with the handsfree wireless headset feature. Easy to use, easy to pair and set up. Comfortable and light to wear.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: stdenker on 24-Jul-06
Strengths: -Comfortable, great sound-Great features-Cool blue light
Weaknesses: -Reception was weak away from BT dongle
Summary: I was looking for a pair of great stereo bluetooth headphones primarily for using on my computer to listen to music and talk via Skype. I haven't upgraded my cell to bluetooth yet so can't verify performance on this feature. What I can say is the feature of integrating the cell phone with music into a high quality headset at an affordable price is a terrific deal. The headphones sound great and are comfortable after several hours of listening. Did have problems getting the set to talk to the BT dongle but eventually got it to work.
Negative Review
Reviewed by: Phoenix_Legacy on 01-Aug-06
Strengths: Clearly hear calls (bluetooth), Aesthetically pleasing, Charges quickly (approximately 2 hrs if completely dead).
Weaknesses: confusing controls, uncomfortable to wear for long duration, Maximum volume for music playback with my PPC 6700 is barely audible (bluetooth)
Summary: Although this headset is compatible with my PPC 6700, it is heavy and one size does not fit all. If worn more than about 40 consecutive minutes, it chafes your ears. Using the bluetooth audio playback function with my Smartphone, the maximum volume is barely audible. On the other hand calls come through quite clearly.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: donalbane on 09-Aug-06
Strengths: Smart looking design, strong wireless signal with long battery, sounds good, fair amount of buttons give you lots of control options. It works wired too, (with included cable) which was an unexpected bonus. Now I use it for all my headphone needs... blu
Weaknesses: Syncing to the device is required every time it is used with my mp3 phone. Also they are a little large. Volume could be a little louder.
Summary: I got these to use with my phone, which has a built in mp3 player. They are a little frustrating to connect to my phone each time because the phone thinks that the headphones are just a regular phone headset until you manually tell it otherwise. Once connected though, the experience is just what I was looking for. The fact that it has a cable to allow wired headphone listening is really great... I use it with my non bluetooth mp3 player now. These are great sounding, cool looking midrange headphones with a lot of control options and solid performance. Honestly, I think the connection issue has more to do with my phone (LGV-8300) than anything else. A pretty good buy overall, just wish my phone would connect the headset a bit easier.
Negative Review
Reviewed by: Swordfreak on 20-Aug-06
Strengths: Good Range (20 Feet through 4 walls)Very comfortable even with glasseswireless freedom
Weaknesses: Battery Drains after 1 day of non-use32kbps audio qualityconfusing buttons
Summary: I bought this headset because it has the same charging connector as my razr, and because i like Motorola quality, however, this product didn't really hit all the marks.I wear glasses full time, and most wrap around headsets dig into the back of my ears, but these were very comfortable, and i was able to wear these for more than a few hours with no discomfort.one thing i noticed right away was that the audio sounds like a old internet radio stream (think mid-late 90's real audio) even when using a 320kbps mp3. now i own a logitech mono headset, bought 2 years ago, and the audio quality is easily 5 times better, i can't hear any loss in quality in that headset.another issue was that it looses it's charge after you don't use it for a day, at first i thought it was just me leaving it on, but after 3 times charging it and then unplugging it and walking away, next day, dead. works fine when you just unplug it and use right away, but i am never really comfortable leaving things plugged in. and 4 hours to charge just agrivates the issue. (not to compare products again, but my other headset does not share this issue) I am willing to accept the fact that it may be a bad battery, but it not being replaceable keeps me from verifying that fact.all in all, a comfortable headset, but not worth the issues that come along.
Negative Review
Reviewed by: iwalton222 on 03-Oct-06
Strengths: price, build quality
Weaknesses: bulky profile. loses connection @ times but this may be my phone.
Summary: overall a great piece of bluetooth technology. i would like to see a less bulky headset but it works good and has very good battery life. headset very functional as well as a phone headseti would probably buy it again.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: d2xesktm on 11-Oct-06
Strengths: nice soundmade for motorolla
Weaknesses: a bit bulky
Summary: The item is great, i can use it with my cellphone and with my laptop. I can use it too while exercising, reading, and any other stuff i could think of. Very useful, and the battery life is long.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: michaelkbarnett on 16-Oct-06
Strengths: GREAT sound, people not getting good sound are using a dongle that does not support BlueTooth High Quality Audio
Weaknesses: None so far
Summary: Searching for a good bluetooth dongle took time, buying, returning, installing, uninstalling. Not the fault of the headset...but it was a pain. I wish a list of recommended dongles had come with the product. I installed first the IOGear dongle...it failed miserably, would not support even low fidelity stereo audio. MSI's BToes dongle worked for low fidelity but would not separate the stereo headset function from the phone headset funtion so I could not use my phone with the headset at the same time as the computer stereo function. Finally Belkin's class 1 hi speed dongle (same price as the others) worked for everything. v2.0 +EDR and USB 2.0. Don't give up on this headset til you try the belkin dongle.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: tiensh on 16-Oct-06
Strengths: Strong performance, good design, amazing, amazing battery life, does what it's supposed to do
Weaknesses: Blinking blue lights that may attract attention; may need to adjust when in noisy placesUncomfortable for people wearing glasses after several hours of continuous use
Summary: This headset does a fine job of switching seamlessly from audio to conversation (make sure you connect to it using the audio/phone device to ensure that there are no problems, as I did) and picks up what you're saying pretty well. The open microphone has some difficulty picking up voices in noisy environments so you might have to cup your right earpiece (a-la cyclops of x-men)to get your voice heard, especially if you don't want to raise your voice. Otherwise, a great product that does exactly what you want it to do: play music with good quality, rest comfortably on your ears (unless you wear glasses in which case it may be irritating after 4 hours of continuous use), seamlessly switch from music to phone and back, and basically make it so you never need to see your phone again. I just wish it didn't have those cool "look at me" lights on either ear.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: deathra on 22-Nov-06
Strengths: Really Loud, good range, good battery life
Weaknesses: None that I have seen.
Summary: My only complaint isn't with this device, but if you want to use this with a Palm, you will need to purchase additional software (I wouldn't recommend Palm device to satin himself, particularly since it seems he designed it personally). This device is awesome though.
Positive Review
Reviewed by: jpoulin on 22-Nov-06
Strengths: Lightweight, nice fit, clear sound, good quality.
Weaknesses: price too high.
Summary: The headset produces good sound. With the bluetooth dongle I am using, I can walk anywhere in my house and still hear clearly. The product was easy to set up and use.
