Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970,Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 Bluetooth Headset
Sony Ericsson Stereo Bluetooth Headset HBH-DS970
Light and unnoticeable, Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 is always with you due to the around-the-neck wearing style. It looks rather strange and denies the idea of “wirelessness”
Design
To be honest, there exist some inconvenience about the HBH-DS970: there is no clothes clip, so it can annoy you in case you feel like dancing. In other words, this headset is not for fitness. Maybe it will help you a little if you make the strip shorter – the special design allows adjustment of the distance to the headphones.
The HBH-DS970 is 27 grams in the whole – very lightweight, so it won't bother you. It has tiny earpieces in the form of buds, easy to wear under a cap, in case it is too cold outdoors. The form provides noise reduction, that's why they are loud at max volume. Making a call, you hear your friend better than ever, and so does he. You won't hear sounds around you (so you can hide from noisy neighbors), but for some people it may cause inconvenience, they are afraid to miss something. If so, the earpieces are very convenient for one-eared listening, in a public place you can leave just one (especially if you need to be present in two places at once). The truth is, not all people like buds, experiencing strange feelings. As for me, sometimes I feel like plunging deep into the see with inner pressure increasing. On the contrary, some of my friends cannot imagine themselves with a different type of earpieces. They admire the absence of discomfort after the long-time wearing. Moreover, for your convenience the sales package includes three sets of ear plugs – S, M and L. You can select the right size for you.
Advantages
Another good point, very important one, is that the headset doesn't create unnecessary merry illumination. In contrast to many others headphones, it has no red/green/blue light flashing, so you don't feel like at an aliens party. And, walking down the dark street, you don't attract attention by the light show on your head.
Disadvantages
Unfortunately, you can't remove earphones and use other ones due to absence of 3.5 mm audio jack, but there is every likelihood that you won't need to do it. The quality of the stereo sound is really good, especially taking into account the size of the device. The sound is profound, maybe sometimes too loud, but, again, you can adjust it as you wish. The volume is also easy to adjust with a shortcut button. We can confirm that the HBH-DS970 stereo is the best for such kind of headphones.
Calls
Now let's return to calls. The HBH-DS970 has a multipoint function – it can be paired with several wireless devices simultaneously – PDA, laptop, mobile phone, desktop PC, but they can't be in use all at once. That's why when while listening to music a call is received, the headset switches to the call, and music pauses. When the conversation is over, playback starts again, and the volume level stays the same. Sony Ericcson HBH-DS970 manual explains: “In singlepoint mode, the headset is connected only to your phone. In multipoint mode, you can use the headset together with your phone and one of your other Bluetooth devices, where music is saved. Before you can listen to music from another device, the headset has to be added once to the device. The headset can be added to up to 10 devices. When you press the music button, the headset connects to the most recently used device.”
To tell you the truth, it has to be so, but sometimes users have different problems with such function, generally in WMP. In some cases after the call is ended, WMP starts playback, but with decreased volume, or no sound is heard at all (one needs to go to Settings to check "Set as Wireless Stereo", but in some cases the soft-reset is required). It's possible, that the fault is not of Sony, but of the player software. Yes, is is a tricky thing, especially while driving. Though, in most cases the switching from multipoint mode to single mode helps to resolve this hassle, as well as problems with pairing.
Package
There is a standard charger included in sales package, and a charger socket is on the body of device. Wait just two hours – and your headset is ready for you. By the way, when being charged, it can operate as well (but in this case you are still wired :)). 6 hours of music playback are promised, but, unfortunately, some users complain they get only 4,5 – 5 hours, and our tests have shown only 3,5 hours of playing. Standby time is up to 300 hours. The range of HBH-DS970 is 4 - 10 meters, though in some cases it drops out three meters from connected device. The range depends on whether you are connected to a small mobile phone or to a powerful desktop computer, we had 8 m in our tests.
LCD
Battery icon is not very exact, not to say pretty bad – you can't tell visually how soon the music will stop. Most of the time you see that the charge is full, and then it starts to decrease dramatically, only after the beep you know exactly you have 10 minutes before it shuts down.
In some devices no track info or other information is visible, but still, the caller ID is announced by Microsoft Voice Command after the music stops, and you hear the ring-tone, designated for this one caller. All the personal tunes designated on your phone for caller or group of callers are transferred to the headset, so you have no problem with caller recognition.
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