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Blue Tooth Hands free options

Noose ยท 2008-01-24 09:51

Bloody cell phones. First off in the paper they tell us Canadians we have the highest cell rates in the world then they sell crap cheap plastic toy phones with so many useless option. Then they eliminate any plug ins to use hands free mikes and speakers. They have this hands free bluetooth technology which works well if your in quite quarters or your mouth is a 1/4" for your ear. Generally you can hear fine but nobody can hear you, if your in an off road machine. Now they have this "Super tooth II" good idea a 4"x6" battery powered speaker with a flip mike. Not bad but if the speaker is too load the mike pics it up and agravates the reciever. Does anybody have any suggestions? Ideally I need aa long boom mike on an ear piece the doesn't (preferably) make me look like a star trek critter!

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  1. #1RamDodge2008-01-24 13:19

    Here in Norway a lot of the operators use earmuffs/hearing protection with built in FM radio and Bluetooth handsfree. Most popular brand seems to be Peltor. Works great, you can have a normal conversation when the operator are in a excavator running with door and front window open, no noise from the microphone. But it might fail on the looks department Otherwise brands like Nokia and Sony Ericson have really good handsfree kits with the microphone on a long flexarm. Usually high $$ though

  2. #2Cat4202008-01-24 13:24

    I found some with a longer microphone arm here . You may have to flip through a few pages (5 total). I've ordered plenty of things there and shipping is always fast and the prices are almost unbeatable. It's always my first place to check for any kind of electronics.

  3. #3bigjake05242008-01-27 02:09

    the Jabra Jawbone is a very good earpiece is about $125. Good luck!

  4. #4Noose2008-01-27 10:56

    So what's the deal with these damn trinkity things. Does the boom mike help or not. Some of these are no bigger than the ear. Are they picking up your voice through the ear?

  5. #5JCBgm2008-01-27 14:46

    Jawbone noise cancellation works very well. I walk around our shop and nobody notices. Personally, the Jawbone doesn't fit my ear very well and is heavy so I use a smaller Plantronics model most of the times.

  6. #6union4life2008-01-27 19:23

    I like the old days "two soup cans and a hose....