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Here are some customer reviews of Jabra FreeSpeak BT250 Bluetooth Headset : About the only place this thing works well for me is in the car, thankfully. In my house, there's lots of static. The range isn't all that great either. I'm using it with the Motorola V600. Wish I'd bought a Motorola headset. I tried two other Bluetooth headsets before this one. Both of the prior ones didn't fit right, were hard to hear, and provided poor voice quality (despite being made by a major vendor). I was about to give up after multiple trips to BestBuy, and decided to give Amazon a try (since the local BestBuys were out of Jabra products -- and now I see why). The Jabra arrived, and saved the day! It charged right up in its cool cradle, matched with the phone (Treo 650) immediately, and fit beautifully. It's lightweight, you can hear the people you're calling, and you sound great to them. I'm very impressed by the design (fit, form factor, buttons, charger) and utility. What a find! I've actually got the BT200 but thought i'd leave my thoughts here anyway. I've been using this for about 18months now and have generally had no problems. I think bluetooth handsfree kits in general are worth the money over the wired ones as they give you true hands free that works (doesn't fall out of your ear when you turn your head while driving). The Jabra in particular is far better design than any others on the market at the moment because by design its more likely to fit different ear and head shapes. Also the in-ear design means you have the best chance of hearing the other party clearly. And I have never not been able to hear the other person. Setup is easy and takes about 2min. Day to day operation is simple, you just turn it on and it works. There are 2 reasons why I have only give this a 4 star rating. 1) Some time it doesn't connect with my T68i after having been out of range (but to be fair I think this is more the crappy T68i than the Jabra) 2) When outdoors it isn't very good at cutting out background noise so the person on the other end can't hear me verywell (NOTE: this is ONLY when i'm outdoors. Indoors or in a car while moving is perfect) One of my mates has one too so I know what its like being on the receiving end of a conversation and its fine. I picked up this headset the other day and I'm relatively pleased with it. Despite a few bad reviews, the sound quality is acceptable for making telephone calls and dicatation, though the sampling rate is obviously too low to listen to music with it. I easily paired it with a Sony-Ericsson t68i and my 15" Powerbook running Mac OS X 10.3.8. My quick testing with iChat AV was positive and it seems quite usable for use with an iSight for the voice portion of a call. I also was able to set the sound output to the headset and am currently listening to some music with it, but the low sample rate and the fact that it isn't in stereo makes this only a novelty. Nevertheless, it is still useful when a real pair of headphones are not available. The range, as mentioned in other reviews, isn't amazing, but was sufficient to move about an average-sized room and worked intermittently through a cinder block wall. It fit fairly comfortably on my ear and seems to easily hide, though is a bit cumbersome to put on at first. The multiple earpieces are also a plus. The dual charger/belt clip is an interesting idea, but seems to be poorly executed. It seems somewhat unstable, so I'm not sure I'd actually keep it on my belt. However, it might not be bad for riding around clipped to something inside of my backpack. All in all, it's not a bad device, though there is certainly some room for improvement. I'd probably buy it again, having used it for a little while. Had this for a year. I get static every time I'm farther than 5 feet from the phone. Tried to charge it but still no change.Will not buy this again.

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