Nokia7650 + Bluetooth Headsets

[[GPO]Solitaire]

Think this should be in the rant forum but i don't have all the facts yet to make it a good rant :)

I just got a leter from my Mobile provider "Fones4u" saying 'cause if the new laws next months i'd need a hands free kit for my care, Fair enough i thought. I'm needing a good one for work.

I was reading throught the list of deviced they can sell me for my mobile and i came across the "Jabra Bluetooth BT200" which they say is for "Bluetooth only mobiles" and they are selling it for the Nokia 7650.

One little problem with this!! The Nokia 7650 Does have bluetooth but it's only for Data not Audio. there is a slightly cheeper version of the BT200 for NON Bluetooth mobiles but when i phoned them up they said that i'd be beter off with the Bluetooth version, When i pointed out that the 7650 Does not have audio bluetooth all they said that all bluetooth mobiles support the bluetooth headsets.

Luckly my contract is up in a few weeks and I think i'll swap Direct to Vodafone for my new contract (although they are technically the same company) I'll get a better service direct from Vodafone (I hope!)

Has anyone got a Jarba BT200 headset and tried it with a 7650?
or got one a can try just to make sute that Fones4u are totaly wrong in this matter??

[Fat Jez]

Solitaire,
Nokia, in their infinite wisdom, decided to not bother including support for Bluetooth voice in the 7650, so no headset you try will work. The 6310i, the 3650 and the 6600 (wouldn't touch this with a barge pole - I tried a pre-release one at work and it kept blue-screening on me) should work.

I have a Sony Ericsson P900 which I use with a Sony Ericsson HBH-60 headset, and the 2 seem to work well. The Jabra seems pretty good - I know a couple of people at work who bought them.

Basically, Nokia's support of Bluetooth is pretty poor - they claim there is no demand for it so they won't put it on all their phones! I found I couldn't wait to get shot of my 7650 - it was buggy and clunky and I grew to hate it. Something like the 7250i or the 6100 would have been ideal, if it supported Bluetooth at all, but neither of them do.

The best support for Bluetooth tends to be on the Sony Ericsson phones - hardly surpising given the involvement Ericsson had in developing the technology. I think some of the Panasonic phones also support it, but I've only seen people at work using it with either Nokia 6310i's or Sony Ericsson handsets.

Hope these ramblings help :D

Cheers,
Stephen

BTW, these comments are purely my subjective opinion, not those of my employer.

[[GPO]Solitaire]

i alway's known that 7650's bluetooth was data only! but single point don't seen to know this :) lol!!!

hopefully nokia have wizened up and the newer mobiles have BT audio support :) I can't wait till the 7700 come out next year :)

[Fat Jez]

Sorry, I was kinda trying to confirm what you were saying :p

I believe the current Nokia phones do support BT voice, but the current range of Bluetooth supported handsets seems to consist of the 6310i, the 3650, the 6600, and the 8910, with maybe a couple of others coming out at some point.

Pretty poor given quite a few other manufacturers are including BT as standard now.

Cheers,
Stephen

[[GPO]Solitaire]

that was the only thing about the 7650 that totaly annoyed me is that when it first came out it didn't say it was data only bluetooth :( but apart from that it's a good phone :)

[Cybertronic]

Hi there,

Since you have a Nokia 7650, I would like to have a opinion off you :o would you buy a 7650 or a 3650?.. decision decisions for me :( I can't decide between the two of these phones, the 3650 is slightly better because it has memory expandibility while the 7650 doesn't.. but I really like the looks of the 7650, and I dislike the keypad on the 3650... which one would you go for and why? :D

Thanks! ;)

[PJ Matthews]

Nokia, in their infinite wisdom, decided to not bother including support for Bluetooth voice

Yeah, anyone who read the manual would of known this clearly, read manuals - its why they are there.

[Fireblade]

But surely the manual is inside the box... which you don't get/can't open until after you buy the phone :confused:

[PJ Matthews]

It actually says in the items specs that it can't.

[The Pimp]

The Jabra BT200 kit for Non-Bluetooth NOKIA phones is actually pretty good to be honest. All it consists of is a BT200 BT Heatset (3 hours talk time, 100 hours stand-by) and a 'disc' (which is also the charger unit) which plugs into the standard headset socket on the phone (the headset connects to the disc rather than to the phone itself). I had one of these kits for my original XDA unit and still use the headset now for my actual Bluetooth phones & devices.