I've got a Sony Bluetooth headset on loan

While in the U.S. mainland recently, my dad picked up a Sony DR-BT1 Bluetooth headset to use with his Treo 650. I gave him my rave review of my Motorola HS850 Bluetooth headset I'm using with my Motorola V710 prior to his trip, let him make a couple of calls using it, and he was hooked. The problem is that locally, like so much consumer technology, the prices for PAN devices exceed $150.

So he got his own, but hasn't been too pleased. he asked me to swap for the weekend, and seeing as how he conceived, raised, educated and reared me, I figured it was the leastI could do. He complained of incessant echoing, caused maybe by the Sony's elongated, rubber mic. I'm not crazy about the fact that his headset sits rather awkwardly on my ear, being flimsy. I tend to get really peripatetic when I'm taking on it, constantly walking around and making hand gestures as if I were giving some big technical speech. My Motorola by comparison is much smaller and sits snugly, but not uncomfortably.

I've got no such sound concerns with I use Dad's device with my phone, but there is a deeper sound, such that I've got to max out the volume when I talk. I guess my Father's Day/Christmas shopping's already done.


Dad's Bluetooth headset (left) and mine.