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Sony Ericsson HPM-70
by iamasadlittleboy
With my slightly better hpm 75's biting the dust recently I went to the same guy and he said these we're pretty much the same things, just a different colour, box and "version". I thought why not the problem with the last ones was the ear piece anyway. Now a quick look on Amazon says the hpm70 is the FULL thing (the HPM75 was ... odd just the slim cable from the phone to the head phone jack...
) whether Amazon are wrong is debatable but lets go by their word.
The device cost £5 and is effectively a headphone set for your Sony and a wired hands-free kit, allowing you to do 2 main things with it. The one that they we're obviously sold primarily with the idea of doing is being the device to allow people to talk on the phone with out holding it. Despite the fact I'm usually on the phone in bed it's always useful to be able to have your hands free (especially as part of a long distance relationship if you know what I mean), for those on the streets walking from a to b hands free kits are probably a way of life. Though with this device it this may not be the easiest of ways to go about it as you need the head phone into the phone jack into the actual phone, quite a lot of effort for it's worth when there's so many hands free wireless sets now available.
As a music headphone however is where the device gets most it's use from me, as an anti-social and quite cynical sort of creature I like to live in my own world with my sense of hearing plastered over by the vocal musings of Jeff and Tim Buckley, and screamed at with a style falsetto by Matt Bellamy or Raine Maida. In fact I'm all to happy to hide in my little world away from the foolishness of society and as a result these have become a bit of a necessity allowing a loud level of sound out and pulsating into my ears, just the solution to a world that can't help but allow wagging tongues to make worded waffles. Sadly however the short ear phone seems to be dead on my set with in a fortnight, not very acceptable, and no where near as good as the 75's.
Despite the fact the headphones do get a good test out by my self, I don't really abuse them or damage them, yes they are cheap and yes they are phone headphones but they should last in complete working condition for longer than a few weeks. Considering I seem to all but fund the industry maybe this is a time to be quite, but personally the shoddy work that goes into creating headphones that despite sounding brilliant seem to have a live span that only a may fly would be jealous of. Yes they are a nice piece of kit whilst they work, but when the hpm75's (which come with headphones, despite the official line being it's the phone jack) are the same price and last longer in both ears, it's an obvious choice which ones to get next.
However with the fact I've now spent £20 in 12 months on headphones for my Sony mobiles I'm starting to consider changing tact and instead buying an actual mp3 player and a decent pair of headphones. With audio equipment, lets be honest, it often is a case of you get what you pay for, and these are no exception. Cheap and cheerful with really decent volume, good quality sound but terrible build quality.
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Sony Ericsson Bluetooth HBH-DS200
by flyte213
I have an HTC Diamond and recently downloaded Voice Command software for it.
Until I bought this headset, I was using the normal wired headset to listen to my music, but I hate wires so when I saw this device it was perfect.
When I got the headset, the first thing I did was swap the earphones as these are rubbish if ... you want to listen to music in high quality. I instead used my Etymotic eR6i's.
The sound quality in conjuction with my earphones was amazing, I was very surprised at this considering my music was being listened to wirelessly. Sound quality was also amazing in calls and the person on the other end could hear me perfectly. If I was listening to music and a call came in, music would be paused and when I presed the answer button I was seamlessly transferred to the call.
For me however, the problem occured at the end of the call, whether it was me or the person on the other end who hung up, when the music began playing again, it would play from the phone speakers and the headset disconnected. This wasn't a problem when no music was playing when the call came in, but this was rarely. After doing research, I discovered this happened to a lot of windows mobile users and Im assuming the headset works perfectly on most other phones, especially SE's.
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Sony Ericsson Bluetooth HBH-PV700
by Stephoohla
I purchased this bluetooth headset a few months ago and it has been really useful.
I'm on my phone quite a lot, and it was a nightmare whilst I was driving and my phone went off. I decided I had to invest in a headset.
There was so much choice in the internet so it was difficult to know what one to go after, and ... after reading a few good reviews for the HBH-PV700 I brought it. I own a Sony Ericsson phone and I've heard if you connect the two you get better results, although it works perfectly fine on any other phone.
It was really simple to use. You only really had to turn it on, connect it to the phone with a simple bluetooth passcode (generally I think its always 0000) and then it was set up. It's easy to turn on and off, and if you turn it on with the phone in distance, then it automatically sets it up, so that if you get a phone call, you simply press the answer button on the headset.
The headset is a nice colour and looks sophisticated, and isn't too big to look silly, neither is it too small to lose easily.
The sound quality is really good. Normally I have problems talking to my boyfriend, our phones never seem to get on! Generally there's some kind of crackling in the background but once I used this, the problem went away, so if anything, it made the quality a lot better.
It comes with a charger which is really similar to phone chargers, and can be plugged into a normal socket (or you can buy a car charger which is handy).
The ear piece is really comfortable which I was surprised by. I wear glasses, so I thought having this thing over my ear as well as a glasses arm wouldn't work, but it does. The 'hook' is made of rubber so is really flexible and can be moved so that it's on either ear.
A great little accessory for any phone.
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