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    Decent bluetooth headphones?

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by skeezix, Jul 29, 2010.

  1. skeezix

    skeezix Notebook Consultant

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    Any recommendations for good (but not necessarily best) bluetooth headphones?

    I've wrecked the headphone jack on my laptop, and get by using another hack; occurred to me recently I could start using BT headphones; I normally dislike BT due to unreliability (did a lot of BT coding years ago) but I'm assuming most of that is all sorted out these days :)

    I'm not looking for top of the line headphones, but a decent comfortable set for watchign movies on the laptop; if they're smallish and stylish, I could use them for the iphone perhaps, but I assume Apple has botched that up with their usual control-evil, so that only certain headsets work; thats fine, the laptop is prime here, and an iphone headset or headphone is only tertiary.

    Any good, but not crazy expensive, pairs?

    jeff
     
    skeezix, Jul 29, 2010
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  2. kent1146

    kent1146 Notebook Prophet

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    What is your price range? What is "crazy expensive" to you? $50? $100? $500?
     
    kent1146, Aug 1, 2010
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  3. Hello_Moto

    Hello_Moto Notebook Evangelist

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    motorola S9 HD headphones or itech BT headphones.
     
    Hello_Moto, Aug 1, 2010
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  4. Vogelbung

    Vogelbung I R Judgemental

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    You could look at the Nokia BH-214. It's a 'puck' style clip-on BT headset, with volume / transport controls onboard - and a headphone jack. This means you can plug in whatever you like, although an earphone ships with it.

    Sound quality through the jack (assuming a decent headphone) is about as good as it gets over Bluetooth - i.e. not that great.
     
    Vogelbung, Aug 1, 2010
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