BlueAnt V1 Review

I was very excited when my BlueAnt V1 arrived. The last headset I bought was almost 6 years ago, my Motorola HS850; which still works today, but is starting to feel a little old and oddly, bulky.

Obviously, looking around the internet the top bluetooth headsets are the Jawbone II, BlueAnt V1, and one by Jabra. The selling point for the BlueAnt for me was the voice functionality. I was a bit disappointed to find out that my Xperia X1 doesn’t come with any voice dialing functions, this is contrary to what I was used to with the limited voice dialer that was on my n95. It wasn’t the best, but I could tap my Motorola and say “Home”, and it would call home. With the Xperia, I click the headset and it sat there… Not very handy when I’m driving. The Jawbone would have probably done the same thing as my Motorola, so the BlueAnt seemed like a better choice to have some level of voice functionality with my Xperia.

I’m happy to report so far that I’m very pleased with this headset. It’s pretty small, but the buttons on it are accessible. I didn’t have to train it, and it understands my voice immediately upon turning it on.

First thing I had to do was charge it, since it’s not fully charged out of the box. The nice thing is that the charge cable is USB (on one end), the other end isn’t a mini-usb, buy a smaller proprietary connection. On the plus side, it came with a mini-usb conversion plug as well, so you don’t need to use their cable. or if you needed a longer charge cable.
Charge time is quite fast, i didn’t clock it but the charge light went off quicker than I expected.

Pairing it was easy, the Xperia picked it up immediately when I turned on the phone’s Bluetooth and told (yes you tell it) to pair. It nicely reports that that it’s connected to the phone. I found out that if my phone’s bluetooth is off, it’ll attempt to reconnect and it tells me that it’s attempting to connect.

I’ve used it quite heavily in the past few weeks on conference calls, and it works very well. It lasts as long as they advertise.

The noise cancellation seems to work well too, at least the others on my conference calls didn’t complain about noise.

Overall, i’m very happy with headset, and would definately recommend it.