Nokia BH501 bluetooth stereo headphones review part 2

or what a difference a change of operating system makes

The first two weeks with the Nokia BH501 was a little frus­trat­ing. I had not spent the time to get bluetooth ste­reo work­ing on my Mac­Book Pro and while the sound qual­ity was ok and only sub­ject to the rare break up of the sig­nal. It was only mono and on occa­sions a pain to con­nect. On the Dopod 838pro the sound qual­ity was poor, the bot­tom end was real muddy and the sig­nal would reg­u­larly break up.

Well on Tues­day I upgraded the Dopod to Win­dows Mobile 6 and what a dif­fer­ence that made to the sound qual­ity from the head­set. Not the same qual­ity as my depar­ted Koss KSC-75 but close. The whole range is now crys­tal clear, even at full volume to drown out the noisy girl on the phone sit­ting behind me on the bus.

At first I though the sig­nal breakup prob­lem had been resolved, see­ing it passed the test of the walk from the bus stop to home under the power­lines without a hitch. How­ever, this morn­ing the breakup returned, it was only the sec­tion of road with power­lines that caused the prob­lem many times before.

I have gone from some­body who was about to con­sign the BH501 to a cup­board unlikely to be used again. To using them reg­u­larly to listen to music from the Dopod. Though I need to get the bluetooth ste­reo work­ing on my Mac­Book Pro or wait for Leo­pard which I believe has a2dp support.

My advice to any­one think­ing of buy­ing a bluetooth ste­reo head­set, as long as you are aware of the sig­nal breakup prob­lems, inten­ded to use them only inside or in a vehicle and have a very recent device to play music, then look at the Nokia BH501. If not stick to wired headphones.

tagged Nokia BH501 bluetooth ste­reo head­phones bluetooth

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