Plantronics M1500 Bluetooth Headset With Adapter For Non-Bluetooth 2.5mm Phones

Comment: I was excited when I received this product in the mail. Kudos to Plantronics for cutting edge Industrial Design and small form factor. It looks a lot bigger in pictures, but was pleased to see that it is actually nice and small and fits well on my ear. I am bluetooth novice, but was able to set up the unit quite well. It worked well with my wife's Sony Ericsson T68i but didn't work with the Nokia 3650. The 3650 seems to have a lot of compatibility issues with bluetooth and now the only one that works (as of Aug-03) is the Jabra unit, which has been revised to work with the 3650. The Nokia is able to "discover" the headset, but cannot connect to it. The only way to use it is to get the M1500-N1 model and plug the sleek adapter into the phone. This defeats the purpose of going wireless. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is because it is hard to tell when the unit is on or off. A few tries of on/off/on/off will tell you. The reason is that the unit lights up for 3 seconds when it first goes on, but then the light goes off. When you switch off the unit it beeps, but again, if you miss the light or the beep, you will keep guessing. Great step in the right direction, good job Plantronics!

Comment: The product works fine but the earpiece is way too uncomfortable...
Definitely can't be used as is...
I'll have to either find a workaround or return it......

Comment: The product works fine but the earpiece is way too uncomfortable...
Definitely can't be used as is...
I'll have to either find a workaround or return it......

Comment: I find this is much better than choking myself at 65mph on a wired headsets cord when turning my head to see who is next to me before changing lanes. With this unit I have total freedom of movement while talking on my cell phone. Tried a friends unit for 3 days, loved it, cant wait to get my own.
As for the other reviewer named "Daniel" I think you had your adapter part to close to the antenna of your cell phone. and if your using this on a home phone, you may get interference if its a 2.4ghz phone, as the bluetooth technology also uses the 2.4ghz radio frequencies. Again, if the adapter part is close to the antenna of your 2.4 ghz home cordless phone, expect the interference. This headset seems mainly for use on mobile, not cordless phones.

Comment: The device has two major drawbacks, the first is that the earpiece hangs off a thin bit of plastic that quickly breaks off. They clearly realise this is an issue as they give you a spare, but that is no good when they only last about a week each.

The other big problem is that they both have multi-function on/off buttons instead of a switch. This means that getting the thing turned on is about 30-45 seconds since you have to push and-hold-the-stupid-thing-down for a very-very long time. The sender is worst of all, that has three modes, off, standby and in use. In practice the standby mode is completely pointless, you might as well turn the thing off completely since it will take ten seconds at least for the thing to make a connection to the earpiece - often much longer.

There have to be better designs out there that this turkey. Once the gadget feature is worn off you will be back to using the phone alone.