Motorola HS850 Bluetooth headset review

If you work in the sales field or the business world, then chances are you use your cell phone quite a bit. And if you have to travel for your business, then you use your cell phone as your lifeline back to the rest of the world and your employer. Many times you are driving and you need to be on an important phone call. So what do you do? Do you pull over on the side of the road and take the call? Or are you like most and talk on your cell phone while driving? Driving and using your cell phone is hazardous, that is why so many states are passing laws to prohibit using a cell phone without a Bluetooth headset that frees up your hands. The Motorola HS850 Bluetooth Headset may be exactly what you need.

Battery life is always something you should consider when purchasing a Bluetooth headset. Unfortunately, many on the market only have a talk time of four hours. The Motorola HS850 Bluetooth Headset has addressed this issue with an increased talk time of eight hours. And if you are not using it, then you have almost double the amount of battery life on standby. That is a vast improvement and one that has many users extremely happy.

Another aspect that users find quite nice about the HS850 is the fact that it reduces background noise. So you can be driving with the window down and still be able to communicate back and forth with your caller. Motorola has also taken care of the on/off ability by creating a headset that turns on when you flip the microphone boom down and turns off when you flip it up. This helps conserve that battery life mentioned previously.

There is one technical detail that you definitely need to pay attention to though and that is the technology that it supports. The HS850 only supports Bluetooth 1.1 and 1.2 compliant devices. With so many new phones coming out on the market that are Bluetooth 2.0 capable, you might find yourself with a phone and a headset that are not compliant with each other. Before you buy the headset, make sure your phone can support it.

Price is another issue you may find with the Motorola HS850 Bluetooth Headset. On the website www.amazon.com, it is listed for $35.50 but another online retail store, www.antonline.com, has it listed for $89.49, so you will definitely want to shop around for the best price. All in all, most users are very happy with this Bluetooth headset and there are few complaints.