armwood

The HP Bluetooth Headset arrived yesterday. I had a good bit of difficulty installing the drivers onto the iPaq 6315. It took four attempts for the bluetooth headset profile to appear in the bluetooth manager. On the fourth install of the driver the profile appeared and then I was able to use the unit.

The sound quality of the headset is decent. The sound is inferior to my reference Grado Reference and Grado S 80 headsets. It is also inferior to my Sennheiser 250 noise cancellation headset. It sounds better than the various ear buds and similar styled headsets I have received with my various Creative Labs Mp3 players.

The headsets worked well with music. There was an occasional breakup of the sound but it was not a major issue. Unfortuneately you may only use Windows Media Player for music. This is a limitation which needs to be removed in the future.

I listened to part of an Audible. Com audio books with these headsets using Microsoft Reader. The book reading did no go well. The sound broke up constantly and continuously. This was very disappointing. HP really needs to address this issue since many road warriors will want to use these headsets with audio books. I will make a further report as time goes on. A good start by HP but the bugs and usage limitations need to be ironed out before these units will have wide appeal.

armwood

Originally Posted by armwood

The HP Bluetooth Headset arrived yesterday. I had a good bit of difficulty installing the drivers onto the iPaq 6315. It took four attempts for the bluetooth headset profile to appear in the bluetooth manager. On the fourth install of the driver the profile appeared and then I was able to use the unit. The sound quality of the headset is decent. The sound is inferior to my reference Grado Reference and Grado S 80 headsets. It is also inferior to my Sennheiser 250 noise cancellation headset. It sounds better than the various ear buds and similar styled headsets I have received with my various Creative Labs Mp3 players. The headsets worked well with music. There was an occasional breakup of the sound but it was not a major issue. Unfortuneately you may only use Windows Media Player for music. This is a limitation which needs to be removed in the future. I listened to part of an Audible. Com audio books with these headsets using Microsoft Reader. The book reading did no go well. The sound broke up constantly and continuously. This was very disappointing. HP really needs to address this issue since many road warriors will want to use these headsets with audio books. I will make a further report as time goes on. A good start by HP but the bugs and usage limitations need to be ironed out before these units will have wide appeal.

The HP Bluetooth Headset works fine if you listen to your audio book with the Audible pocket pc program, not Microsoft Reader - John

armwood

Originally Posted by armwood

The HP Bluetooth Headset works fine if you listen to your audio book with the Audible pocket pc program, not Microsoft Reader - John

I am having great difficulty using these headphones for music. There is a constant popping sound in the background. I have called HP support but know one there has even heard of the product. HP no longer lists the h6315 as a compatible product for these headsets. There is no support. HP should be ashamed at this poor level of service. There is absolutely no support information at the website listed on the products brochure. The website search engine returns unknown product. This is disgraceful. Beware!!

whitelyt

The headset is marketed to work with the h6300. I would imagine that it would work less favorably with the h6300 then any other model due to the nature of the h6300. It is my opinion that most of your problems with the headset is due to severe interference. I wonder what would happen if you disable Wifi and GSM/GPRS and only had BT active. Would the response work better then? Also the environment that you could have been using it in has alot of interference. I have had occasions where in one are the audio went poor. Then moving to another location everything was perfect. Remember that the headphones depends on a good and clear BT connection. If the connection is flaky then the sound will not be that good.

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HP rx3715
Dell Axim X50v
HP 2215
Dell Axim X30

vbox

I wouldn't recommend this headset!
I got the headset to go along with my hx4700. I must agree with Dave on the sound, it was great! (Key word = was) I couldn't have been more careful. The band cracked/failed, and now I have a $100.00 useless set of mini speakers. HP offers NO recourse. HP-Invent? Ha! Toshiba is offering something that looks quite familiar without the HP logo.
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5716.html

There are a couple of other options:
I'll try the Bluetake. (something I should have done in the first place) Even the images of this headset imply a higher quality.
http://www.bluetake.com/Products/BT4...420EX_subC.htm
Another option:
http://www.sonorix.com/%7Etven/eng/p...roduct_bap.php

Save yourself some frustration and avoid this product!

whitelyt

Sorry to hear about that vbox,

I have been using mine now for a couple of months and I have no problems whatsoever.

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Ted Whitely
whitelyt at ipaqhq DOT com

HP rx3715
Dell Axim X50v
HP 2215
Dell Axim X30

jeroen94704

I bought a Logitech Headset yesterday, and am very pleased with the result. After a frustrating experience with the sound quality of another (unknown brand) BT headset a few months ago, the quality of the Logitech is a real relief. There is also no interference from the GSM/GPRS or WiFi modules that I can detect, although I haven't used WiFi extensively yet.

harleyxlc

jeroen94704, welcome to the site and thanks for the post!

I believe the poster is talking about the hp headPHONES, the stereo headphones for music, etc. Not a headset like in your link.

Although it is good to know that the Logitech headset works with the 6315, it can be touchy with headsets I like the Logitech Bluetooth headset myself, the one that kind of clips on your ear sideways. That also worked with my 6315.

jeroen94704

Originally Posted by harleyxlc

I believe the poster is talking about the hp headPHONES, the stereo headphones for music, etc. Not a headset like in your link.

Ah, of course. Duh ...

In that case, I'm curious about the compression used by the headset. I assume it's a non-standard compression algorithm, otherwise you wouldn't need a dedicated driver (AFAIK, BT defines standard audio compression). Still, encoding is more expensive than decoding, in terms of CPU cycles, which you want to minimize on a mobile device. So I bet sound quality was sacrificed in order to preserve processing needs while still staying inside the BT bandwidth constraints.

What you really want is a BT mp3 player/headset. Then, instead of using the BT headset as an audio device, you can stream the raw mp3 to it, and decode it on the spot (All this is assuming you're playing mp3's of course). I don't know if something like that exists or not though. Just a thought.

And it's ok to just call me Jeroen, without the zip .