I’ve always used very good quality Jabra wired earphones, and later, wireless bluetooth devices but am considering switching to a wired headseat with separate mouthpiece before my next road trip for the reasons mentioned above. I, too, talk on the phone a lot when I drive (and have recently learned to send voice-texts in my old age, lol).
If you get a quality bluetooth device with dual microphones for noise canceling then I’ve found it’s not a problem. I use the plantronics M165 but there may be better ones out as I’ve had mine for a while. I also like that it will pair to 2 devices at the same time.
Well, I can’t say these products were my fault. We weren’t doing headsets. You can blame CSR for your headset problems..Or, since last week, you can blame Qualcomm, since they own them now.
The latest carkits in the new cars are pretty good (also mostly CSR). I like them because of A2DP and audio streaming from a smartphone, so I don’t need to use a USB thumbdrive all the time.. In a convertible, I just still use a wired headset, with one earbud in. Works for me.
Despite having to do a lot of interop work with headsets. I never owned a bluetooth headset myself. I prefer a normal wired headset. I never liked the idea of putting something wireless right next to my brain, even though the power is so low on them.
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