[jawsscripts] Fw: [blindvista] Dell BH200 bluetooth headset
- From: "inthaneelf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Sci-Tech" <sci-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:36:57 -0800
a very nice sounding unit for multiple uses and a rather interesting assembly
of equipment possibility, just one trouble to fix and it will be great, read
on...
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange
To: blindvista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:27 PM
Subject: [blindvista] Dell BH200 bluetooth headsetHi all,
I've been experimenting with some bluetooth headphones/headset that I
bought at the same time as my recent Dell laptop (with Vista, that's why
I'm talking about this here).
Over-all I've had a very positive experience with these, and they have a
lot of capabilities I've not even used. They will for instance, connect
to both a bluetooth-enabled cell phone and a pc, so that when a call
comes in they will mute the music source and automatically switch to the
phone. They have an invisible microphone to allow you to have phone
conversations without a boom mike hanging in front of you constantly.
Use of the microphone however forces you into a mono headset mode.
They weigh only 70 grams (very light!), the earpieces connect behind
your head at the base of your skull, instead of over your head, and I
find that unusually comfortible. They fold flat like a pair of
sunglasses, and easily fit into a shirt pocket.
I have the owners manual if anyone else owns these; I've converted it
from pdf starting with a page done by Google, and then doing a lot of
clean-up work on it.
They have a listed range of 30 feet, and I find that to be accurate, and
really great sound quality.
The vista interface is quite accessible, and there's no additional
software or drivers to be installed.
They're rechargible, and you get about 150 hours of "stand-by" time, and
12 hours of talk time from a 3 hour charge from the usb port. That's my
only grump; I don't like things that have to be charged via a usb cable.
Especially ones like these where you cannot just pop in a spare battery
and keep going.
They allow for remote control of audio playback so you can go forward or
back tracks, fast forward or rewind, initiate phone calls or answer
them, all with controls nicely integrated into the headset. This is in
addition to the volume of course.
Vista seems to be a little better with these than xp on at least one
point: you need to specify them as your default audio source so that
they will automatically take over the audio when switched on. When
switched off vista remembers the previous default audio source and
returns to the speakers, while xp evidently can end up selecting
something else, which could leave a speech user in a bad place. I ended
up in this bad place by choosing something else as my default before
engaging the headphones. I had to get sighted assistance to restore my
speaker audio, as I was trouble shooting the headphones at that point,
and they weren't working either. There seems to be no keystroke for
returning the audio to the vista default of speakers, and I would dearly
love to know of one if it's out there. Perhaps someone can write a
small utility to do just that; I'm going to put it at the top of my list
of learning tasks.
If anyone would like the manual just let me know. It's pretty minimal,
and not very useful if you're just trying to check out the product and
it's capabilities.
If anyone has these and would like to offer additional views I'd like to
hear them.
hth,
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
Chip.Orange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(850) 413-6314
alright, talk to you folks later on,
inthane
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