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You will be convent when you have a call with Bluetooth headset

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When it comes to a Bluetooth headset, each person wants it all: fabulous call quality, a comfortable fit, an intuitive button arrangement, and a stylish look-not to mention a great price. Unfortunately, that's a tough order to fill. You may find that your chosen model has some drawbacks, depending on your fit preferences and usage habits.

Two big trends were evident in the Bluetooth headsets we tested. First, in an effort to provide a versatile and customizable fit, many manufacturers offer designs that include multiple, swappable earbuds and over-the-ear pieces. Second, a lot of headsets now have noise-cancellation technology that can mitigate or even nearly eliminate bothersome background noise.

Our Best Buy, the new Aleph Jawbone, delivered superb audio: Voices sounded crisp generally, and the headset did remarkably well at reducing background noise. Plus, the Jawbone package includes multiple earpiece components, which ups your chances of finding a good fit. For example, I have small ears, and I wear glasses regularly enough for earhooks to be problematic. But after mixing and matching the Jawbone's earbud and earhook options, I found an acceptable fit.

Our second-ranked pick, the Plantronics Discovery 925, felt really comfortable and snug on this fussy headset wearer. The Discovery uses no hook; I simply inserted the cheap bluetooth headset in my ear, with one hand. And the Discovery naturally didn't interfere with my eye glasses. Conversations sounded clear, but in noisy environments the Discovery did not mitigate background noise as well as the Jawbone did.

Some of our other choices in the Top 10 underscored our finding that you can't have it all in a single headset. Either way, the fit felt secure. But in my tests the call quality was unreliable, with superclear calls one minute but voice distortion and annoying echoes the next. Getting a feel for the BT530's function buttons took a couple of tries, too. Meanwhile, the hook-based, Motorola Motopure H15, despite some voice breakups during calls, impressed me with its elimination of background noise.

Now, cell phones and headsets that support the latest Bluetooth specification, version 2.1, are slowly beginning to appear. The new spec is designed to bring users simplified pairing, along with advances in security. As long as both your phone and headset support Bluetooth 2.1, you won't need to punch in a PIN during the pairing process, for starters. Among the headsets we tested in this batch, the BlueAnt V1, the Motorola Motopure H15, and the Motorola H780 support this new spec.

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