The Best Bluetooth device for the Touch......
 

I tried 10+ different models with my Verizon 6900 and have finally found one that works.

THE BLUEANT Z9 has the best in and outgoing audio and is LOUD!!!:headbang:

YES I TRIED THE JAWBONE AND THE Z9 KICK IT'S ***!!!!

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I'm using the Plantronics Discovery 655. Good sound and reliable performance, what more do ya want.

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I too have a Z9 and a Touch and am very pleased with it. I did not try the Jawbone so cannot compare the two.

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One more vote for the Z9.
I have tried the Jawbone, Jabra, Plantronics, and a couple of different Motorola ones and they all have a LONG way to go before being able to be in the same class as the Z9. Simple design, superb sound on both ends, and great battery life. You can even upgrade the firmware on this headset! I'll never use another one!

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I have a samsung wep200 and it works great with my Touch

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I'm still using an old Moto H700, the first model with noise cancellation. I love it, but I know it's just a matter of time till I need a new one. Thanks for the review. I was actually thinking about a jawbone.

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I use the plantronics 855 for stereo and walking around, but the motorola bt505 is the greatest accessory i have purchased. the fm transmitter sends all audio through my factory stereo and it is awesome. make sure to search multiple frequencies to get a clean signal and you are set. when using slide2play the music pauses and restarts when a call is received and ended.

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I got a jawbone, then a z9 and now a Moto h710.

1) Jawbone. Wasn't loud enough - too bulky, ear loops kept breaking in my pocket. It finally died just out of warranty.

2) Z9. Barely loud enough. Didn't like the earloop fit. Didn't like the "interface" - button presses for functions were hard to remember. Lost it about a week ago.

3) Moto h710. Love this one. loud - no in-ear earpiece so it's comfortable for long periods. Easiest to turn on and know it's on - just flip open the mic. No button to press to turn it on. Best part is, you can keep it off in your pocket. If someone calls, flip open the mic and it connects in 2 seconds to your phone.

I never really asked how I sounded on the other end on any of these headsets. I know the Jawbone was supposed to have the best noise cancelling but it was too bulky and difficult to control for me.

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I got the jawbone 2 for cheap...its pretty dope and has volume adjusting..
-that motorola h700 was kool at first but kept disconnecting on me..on both the mogul and my touch..so i booted that peice of **** 2 the curve

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Have to chime in on the Z9, best bluetooth I've owned hands down! I use it with my touch and my phone at work with a bluetooth base station.....flawless!

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Its not an in-ear but has anyone tried the Blueant Supertooth? as a car kit so to speak? I'm doubting between that and the Parrot 3200LS

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I'm using a BlueAnt Supertooth speakerphone setup. It works pretty well, loud enough when driving around town but freeway speed and road noise can make it a little tough for me to hear. I like the slide out mic for turning it on and off. The only downside is that there's a clip that goes on your visor and then a magnet on the supertooth holds it to that clip and when you push the microphone back into the device to turn it off, the magnet wants to give way so it's almost a two handed operation to truly turn it off. Not good if driving but I rarely need to completely turn it off while driving anyways.

I loved my Plantronics 640 in ear setup (light and good sound) but no noise cancellation and the ear gels get nasty after a while of being in my ear and then laying in the cup holder and back and forth. Replacement ear gels certainly solve that but that's the one problem with in ear units.

I've got a Z9 right now but it doesn't fit in my ear very well and I hate the ear loop. I've seen some other folks complain about it's fit but it seems to be about 80% who love it and 20% who can't get it to fit. Guess I'll have to wait until Plantronics comes out with a better noise cancelling headset....

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I bought this and I love it. For phone calls, the internal speakerphone of the T505 is great. If you want to route calls and music through your stereo, it is easy and sounds good as well. Battery life is great.

For a regular headset I have a Moto H700 and have never really had any problems with it, but I don't use it as much now that I have that T505.

I also have the Moto S9 for when I jog and workout.

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I lost my z9 loved it - it kicked butt over everything I had tried (plantronics 655, 645, jawbone, several others) - it's so small:( since then I've replaced it w/ the jawbone 2..

I also upgraded my phone to the sprint leaked 6.1 rom in the meantime (vs. a hacked 61 rom before..); so jury is still out - but my jawbone's outgoing sound volume feels really low!

The z9's replacement, z9i, is supposed to be in-stock starting monday - and one of the big claims is that it does better wind noise cancelling - I think I might have to give it a try...

-mark

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i use the jawbone it works well for me ,i see they make a small one now,just my luck lol

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I must be crazy or just too picky. I bought the Z9 when I first got my Mogul, and it had this buzzing sound that would go in and out if you turned the volume up within a click or two of the top. It was enough to annoy me. I ended up trading from the Mogul to the Touch, and the Touch had the same problem. So then I tried exchanging the Z9, and it had the same problem. So, it seemed to me like this was some problem with the Z9 and the HTC bluetooth, as it followed both a change from one device to another and a replacement of the headset itself.

Maybe I'm just deaf (which is possible) and nobody else ever needs to turn it up above the lowest volume levels. But in many environments I couldn't hear unless I turned it up to the point where the buzzing started. It drove me crazy. I was really disappointed, as I loved everything about the headset aside from that.

For now, I've got the Plantronics Voyager 855. I like it, but not as much as I would have liked the Z9 if it didn't have the buzzing.

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did you upgrade to the 3.4 firmware on the Z9? the Z9 has been the loudest headset i've used. i'm also using the jawbone 2 and it's pretty loud/clear with the Touch.

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Does anyone use the jawbone 2 and the 6800 mogul? I have been trying to pair it, but it keeps saying cannot pair, code is wrong, etc. It SEES the jawbone, but won't pair with it.

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tried many including moto...so far my Z9 is da best ;)

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I don't recall if 3.4 was out back when I had to return it (30 days were about up). This was back in January. The problem wasn't that it wasn't loud enough. The problem was that if I turned it up loud enough for me to hear it in some environments, I would hear this buzzing in the background. It wasn't bad enough to drown things out, but it was enough to bother me. But I bother easily on such things. Given that I tried two different phone models (coincidentally -- not because of this) and two copies of the Z9, I concluded that there's some incompatibility.

Actually, as I think back more, I think part of the problem was that the HTC devices have such low BT volume. While the Z9 did very well on volume for an HTC device, it was still quieter than when I paired the Z9 with my Dad's Treo at Xmas. With the Treo, I could get the volume I need without having to crank it. With the Mogul and Touch, I had to crank it closer to the top to get the volume I need. When I did that, I got the intermittent buzzing. Still, it's very strange that nobody else has had this issue.

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Another vote for the Z9. Picked this thing up last week and love it. Really works well.

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I have had a few headsets. I currently have the jabra jx10 seies 2 and all I get are complaints from people saying that they cant understand me or say that it sounds muffled. I have a deep voice so that might not help. I need a new one as holding the phone to my ear is very annoying. I am between the z9i or the jawbone 2.. any recomendations as iIdont want to blow another $100+ on a useless earpiece. I have a touch with the latest "oem version of 6.1"
thanks

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I have been using the JB2 for about a month now, and I wasn't able to use it/them at all times. The first one had a bad earpiec speaker, which made the sound very crackly (something that often occurs with a poor bluetooth connection or implimentation so it was hard to dicern) and even ALIPH said, just return it to ATT (the only place one could get them at the time) and swap it out - known issue.

The second one, I couldn't get the volume high enough.

Fit CAN be an issue, because the device MUST HAVE the activity sensor touching your cheek. It JUST doesn't work at all unless that is the case. It isn't a question of it not working WELL if it doesn't, barely NO sound comes through if it isn't touching your face. On the one hand, this is great because ONLY what it can relate to the sound coming through the two micro microphones is transmitted as actual caller sound, but on the other hand one's VOICE gets filtered if the unit cannot properly compare it to the sound vibrations.

When it works and it fits, it works pretty darn well. I think the previous generation had better sound in the earpiece, I am still not happy with the sound in my ear. But, callers say that the sound is excellent. Very rich, strong signal and volume and not a lot of background noise.

Except for wind. I cannot even open the window in my car, and not have the wind COMPLETLY destroy the entire call. It isn't even a question of it being garbled, there is just NO discernable voice call coming through. I have tried calling MY HOME and leaving a voice mail on the AW, and even I cannot understand what I am saying when there is wind.

So, windows must be up. but, walking down a busy street, standing in a starbucks, being outside when the plane is turning up the engines, even the obligatory LAWN MOWER test my callers could BARELY tell that anything else was going on.

The earpiece on my mogul, treo, KRZR and iphone ALL sound better to ME in the ear than the JBII headset, but that really isn't the whole purpose of the unit. What with the new CA law going into effect TODAY for requiring headsets, I'll stick with it.

All in all, probably one of the best, if not THE best headphones.

Just a note on pricing. The original one I bought was full boat, 129$ OUCH! but, with about two weeks ATT had them for 95$, (83$ with my disc). I think we'll see them by July in the 85-95$ range, or LESS.

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im using the moto H700. on the actual unit it says h700c. I like how i can flip the mic to turn it off when i dont want it on to save batt.

sounds good. loud enough for me to hear. Sounds good on the other end too according to those on the other line. its light and small.

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Which would be the best "in ear" BT headset that goes well with the Touch? The usual BT headsets keep popping out of my ear all the time and since they're quite loose audio qulaity isnt the greatest. So I was wondering if someone could point me to a headset that lets you plug into the ear canal, then clarity as well as fit would be perfect :)

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I had a plantronic voyager and it was great, it fit in the ear and sounded great. got rid of it for the crappy jabra jx10 and regret it. The plantronics also has an ear hoop that helps on top of the in the ear gels. I am looking to get either a blueant z9i or the jawbone 2. I am currently leaning towards the blueant and it has two sizes so it might fit.

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I've been through quite a few headsets and I love the Plantronics 855.
It fits into the ear canal, is very comfortable, and has an extensible boom. People usually complain that they can't hear me on headsets, but this one has been great.

I've also used:

Jawbone: people could hear me if music blared in the background but not when it was silent. I hated the earpiece. I like canal-headphones like those made by Shure and wish more headsets would adopt the same style of earpiece with replaceable foamies.

Plantronics Voyager 510: Great sound quality but had some problems with static every now and then.

Motoroloa ???: just didn't work well with the ppc6700. No motorola device seemed to. (I'm on the Touch now)

Plantronics 665: had a nice in-car charger but no one could hear me on it.

Plantronics 640: I still have and use this one. Not quite as nice as the 855, but still very good. I wish it had the same earpiece as the 855.

Gowry

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I've been attracted to this too. I absolutely love my in-ear phones from Etymotic Research. I use the ER-6i model (here). They're similar to the Shure, but I liked them even better than the Shure models in a similar price range. Anyway, I was very excited to see they've got a bluetooth headset now that uses the same type of ear canal plug. It's called EtyBLU, and you can read about it here. However, iLounge reviewed it and gave it a lukewarm rating (see it here). But Amazon user ratings have been pretty good (just 5 reviews so far though), and CNet liked it here. I might try it out at some point. I've had a lot of problems with headsets not fitting securely in my ear, and this one has anything going for it, it's certainly going to have a tight fit.

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Thank you osmany21, Gowry and bkrodgers. A nice array really, now... to make up MY mind, that's gonna be the difficult part! lol
Kind of shifting towards the Plantronics 855, but I'm keeping an eye on the blueant z9i for its multiphone connectivity... decisions.. decisions...

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with the plantronics 855, how well would you guys say it works in windy conditions? i.e. car with the windows down, or slightly down.

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So, based on this thread, I got the BlueAnt z9i for my Touch...now that it's against the law to talk on your phone and drive in WA....anyway, I cannot get my Touch to recognize it....any suggestions?

Thanks!!

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I've had issues with BT headsets constantly disconnecting. My favorite headset was the Jabra BT8010. It disconnected a lot as well, but would instantly reconnect, you would basically see the CallerID display flash on and off periodically.

Otherwise, it was great, got plenty loud. Too bad I lost it. :(

-Ed

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Alright I want to buy the blueant headset, but what is the difference between the Z9 and the Z9i? (i feel like a fool for asking, and I will feel even more so i the i stands for iPhone). Thank you in advance!

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Plantronics Voyager 510 here. It just works.

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For those of you with the voyager 855, or any other plantronics, when you connect do you experience the following:

1> Headset beeps with a low tone to confirm conection
2> Then the headset disconnects with a high tone beep
3> headset beeps again with a low tone and stays connected.

For those of you without this headset, do you get the same with the Z9?

Also, if you just turn the headset on, it will automatically connect with the above process but not connect wireless stereo until you actually press the button on the headset. Once wireless stereo is connected, you can't disconnect it without cycling power on the headset or cycle bluetooth on the phone.

Lastly, does everyone notice that having wireless stereo connected, the battery on both the phone and headset drains very quickly even it the phone is in idle.

With all this said, I think the headset is great. The ear loop can be flimsy and I have already broken one. I called the company and ordered extras. The only thing that bugs me is the connection process. I will get in my car, turn on bluetooth, it connects, I start a call, it drops bluetooth which leaves my caller hanging until the headset reconnects and I transfer the call back to the headset.

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I've been using Jabra BT8010 for a while now. Pretty good. The reception is excellent. It's definitely longer than 10m, even after 3-4 drywalls in the building.

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Finally got the Z9i to pair with my Touch, but got complaints on my voice breaking up. Returned in for Plantronic 855 stereo headphones and REALLY like it. It does hurt a little after a while, but great fit and sound!

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would you be able to let me know how well it works in windy conditions?

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I find it works OK at best. I am very cautious when in wind. I find it works best when walking straight into the wind. Cross winds tend to cause the mics to pick up the noise made when the wind hits the headset. Sounds made from the A/C of the car bother me more than my callers. Hope this helps. The sound isolation earbuds greatly improve the sounds quality (for us) compared to others when in wind.