I’ve been using the Blue Ant headset for a few weeks now, and wanted to put down a few notes:

  1. It looks really great and has nifty light sequences in blue and red.
  2. It’s lightweight.
  3. It’s reasonably priced (I paid about $40 in NYC at J&R).
  4. It’s got a super-clever recharging setup via USB cable that also plugs into a wall-plug adapter.
  5. The sound quality is not so great. It often sounds like I’m on a wireless home phone with a poor connection to the base.
  6. The battery charge doesn’t seem to last long before there’s a degradation in voice (a day on standby? an hour of talking? hard to say).
  7. In any kind of wind or noisy area, it’s almost useless.

I can only really compare it to my old Jabra BT200 which definitely sounded better but had its own problems. So overall, it’s useful but I’m not satisfied.

X3 Micro

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