The only truism about bluetooth headsets is that the user is the only person on the whole planet that thinks they are important enough to wear one. Everyone else knows that the user looks like a complete idiot.
Who cares what other people think? I spend copious hours on conference calls where holding a telephone to my head is uncomfortable, plus makes typing or other actions difficult. A headset makes perfect sense in almost all situations when placing/receiving a telephone call - what it looks like to other people is completely immaterial.
riiiiiiight....I cant believe people are still saying this....Bluetooth has been out for a while now....I understood back in'05 and '06 when it was still kinda new but sheeeeeeeeeesh its been out for a while now.....its convenient and no one thinks they are the only one important enough to have one....hell you can get a BT headset for like $12 brand new now....like the other guy said it makes it SO much easier to do things like email/text while on the phone...something that plenty of business people NEED to do when on the phone with a client for example
Since when has fashion trumped convenience for the kind of people who read Engadget? Was there something I missed or has this turned into something other than a tech blog? I think that if a person finds a bluetooth headset useful enough to use then all the power to them, and screw the people who make ignorant generalized comments like 'that the user is the only person on the whole planet that thinks they are important enough to wear one'!
I agree headsets are great when you need to type or write something down etc. They've been out long enough that really people don't care what they look like anymore. However....what is obnoxious are those guys/girls at the club that wear them. Seriously you have a club full of people and music playing you're not gonna be able to hear them well enough nor will they you. Usually the same idiots that think they're cool cause they wear sunglasses in a dark club. lol
@Kelmon - so it's almost as if... you have a USE for it. This whole "when did fashion become more important than application" argument is flawed - people wearing a bluetooth headset hardly on the phone are telling the world they want to be looked as 'techy' and 'intelligent'. They in fact cross over the 'application' side and wear it as a fashion accessory - and it looks stupid.
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The only truism about bluetooth headsets is that the user is the only person on the whole planet that thinks they are important enough to wear one. Everyone else knows that the user looks like a complete idiot.
Who cares what other people think? I spend copious hours on conference calls where holding a telephone to my head is uncomfortable, plus makes typing or other actions difficult. A headset makes perfect sense in almost all situations when placing/receiving a telephone call - what it looks like to other people is completely immaterial.
riiiiiiight....I cant believe people are still saying this....Bluetooth has been out for a while now....I understood back in'05 and '06 when it was still kinda new but sheeeeeeeeeesh its been out for a while now.....its convenient and no one thinks they are the only one important enough to have one....hell you can get a BT headset for like $12 brand new now....like the other guy said it makes it SO much easier to do things like email/text while on the phone...something that plenty of business people NEED to do when on the phone with a client for example
Since when has fashion trumped convenience for the kind of people who read Engadget? Was there something I missed or has this turned into something other than a tech blog?
I think that if a person finds a bluetooth headset useful enough to use then all the power to them, and screw the people who make ignorant generalized comments like 'that the user is the only person on the whole planet that thinks they are important enough to wear one'!
I agree headsets are great when you need to type or write something down etc. They've been out long enough that really people don't care what they look like anymore. However....what is obnoxious are those guys/girls at the club that wear them. Seriously you have a club full of people and music playing you're not gonna be able to hear them well enough nor will they you. Usually the same idiots that think they're cool cause they wear sunglasses in a dark club. lol
@Kelmon - so it's almost as if... you have a USE for it. This whole "when did fashion become more important than application" argument is flawed - people wearing a bluetooth headset hardly on the phone are telling the world they want to be looked as 'techy' and 'intelligent'. They in fact cross over the 'application' side and wear it as a fashion accessory - and it looks stupid.