World's Most Overrated Gadgets and Technologies 5

Tom,
It seems like you found a sensitive tooth but then that is your job isn’t it. You can show how timely a subject you picked by the number of comments we make and how mad we sound when we say them. It sounds a lot like talk radio but wait you don’t like satellite radio either. Must be because you compete with them.

CB – I don’t understand the comment “… people on these they are on personal calls… ”. What difference does it make if they are using Bluetooth or have the cell phone crammed up their … ear to make a personal or business call? We started defining self-importance differently when our companies started thinking we should be more accessible and gave us a phone with a million minutes on it. It also became a convenience to keep in touch with our kids by calling them to find out why the hell they weren’t home. Oh by the way, I just left a restaurant where a woman looked equally as stupid talking on her cell phone. I couldn’t see her hand with a phone in it until I was on her other side. Until then she was talking to the air, looking like a psycho.

Jim Pax – at what point do you let your own experience guide you instead of someone else’s. Perhaps you should consider one of the tied earpieces. Personally, I gave up my Motorola for a Jawbone. AT&T said Moto tied Jawbone but from where I call Jawbone is the ticket.

SAHM – is it really to hard to type all the letters at least once in your response. I do hate having to bother looking up something because someone is a lazy typer. I know. I know. It comes from texting. It is sometimes inconvenient to type all the letters so everyone can understand. What is the point of entering a response if people can’t understand if you are calling them a bad name or just making a point. Just like kids have been brought up to use calculators to do simple things like add, we are now bringing up our children to not know how to spell. I wish you well with your brilliant 4 year-old. Don’t dumb her down.

This is about the dumbest, most inept techno review I have ever read. Obviously the reviewer is a technological moron. No one, I mean NO ONE who uses a cell phone and drives, should be without a blue tooth earpiece. They are wonderful. And for those who are complaining about their particular earpieces, you just got a bad one, or a bad brand. I won't suggest brands, but most of the better ones are excellent.

I have to use my bluetooth. I'm wheelchair bound and it's simply impossible to hold a phone to my ear and push my chair at the same time.

Another bad thing about Bluetooth...VERY easy for bad guys to pick up your phone number and start using it to charge up your bill!! Turn off Bluetooth and those charges disappear.Watch out, it happened to me!

Bluetooth works for me.

Yes it sometimes seems to "unpair" itself for no reason but then plugs used to fall off cables so whats the difference.

I usually use a proper car kit (both bluetooth and cable) in the car. And always mocked the earpiece wearers.

When stuck with a loan car for a while I bought an earpiece for the duration and decided I actually quite like it as a temporary measure but prefer the installed kit.

As for problems of sound quality and vox, I haven't had any. The incar kits (ck7 and ck20 Nokias) both give exceptional results in both directions. The earpiece is also good with no perceived problems but not as convenient.

Lastly, Bluetooth printing. When I was gifted a Bluetooth printer I thought"WHY?" I've got more printers than You can shake a stick at. What am I gonna do with another one.

Then I took it to work during a quiet spell and we invented Printer Friday!

Anywho, what does it matter if Bluetooth is good or bad? If you don't like it don't buy into it but you can't really criticise it coz it is undeniably brilliant compared to the previous options.


One last thing, the person that was glad to be away from the cancer causing phone? Phones operate on 900 to 2100 mhz (depending on your country) in the U/SHF range of the radio spectrum. It was the thought of people beaming this "microwave" energy through the side of there heads which caused the initial and still unsubtantiated scares surrounding mobile phones. Nobody seems to have cottened on to the fact that bluetooth earpieces operate on 2400 mhz (ie even more dangerously microwave) and are actually inside part of your head! Funny that!

So, my audio is good, my photos are even better and my right ear is cooked to perfection. You gotta love a technology that can give you all that AND sound like a famous pirate.