Review of Bluetooth-headset Plantronics Voyager 520
Package Contents:
Headset
Charger
Credle
User
Interestingly, in the line of headsets Plantronics model under the number 520 is not at all something special, although some other companies, bude they did the same thing, would have praised it as a flagship solution. Silence of the World, step by step, the company sets its own level of quality and, indeed, their own rules. We'll discuss this in the conclusions, and yet look at the 520-th intently.
Design and construction
Headsets from Plantronics have their own "face", something to me it resembles the design notebooks Acer, particularly any "ultra" model. Take, for example, last year's Acer 8200 - seemingly normal office laptop, but he screwed the lid from carbon, "lick," and here he is, meganout. In the 520th used the same principle - we take the usual headset Plantronics, add chrome parts, insert a piece of plastic, similar to carbon, and - op-la - megagarnitura ready. In general, jokes aside, but a design fault I will not, it's pretty good, someone even imbued with a love of things. I have it not work out, at least in terms of appearance, I like a minimalist design, there is a lot of all elements. Headset is well built, unlike some other company's products, there is no fin, no gaps, no creaks under compression - build a five-plus. The front panel is another microphone, a pleasant indoor mesh, apparently, he is responsible for receiving unwanted external sounds, which are then cut off the system, providing good audibility of voices in the bad sound conditions. The one on the bottom, is responsible for the capture of voice, right behind him is a proprietary socket for the charger, so unusual its location due to the fact that the bundle includes a charging stand. In principle, it is located at some distance from his cheeks and dirty will not.
Credle complete different, it is collapsible, the cable is laid on a special guide, then you close the lid and you're ready to charge the device. In principle, nothing prevents did not pull out the cable, stand miniature. As you can see the headset in the cradle attached to the plug, the more it does not hold.
Wearing
Device into a fully classical style, with fixed bow, to change the ear to rotate fastener. That part of the bow, which is located behind the ear, made of soft rubber, therefore, is there comfort and convenience. As you can see the attachment on the speaker here is unusual, it can not be removed, it is rigidly fixed. In this regard, I recommend to try on before buying the device if you're a girl, then it you can not quite come up (depending on the size of the ear canal). I wore the device is about four hours without taking off, during which time any unpleasant feelings arose.
The device has no grooves, hooks and other strap, one can only wear the headset in your pocket.
Management
Apparently, the designers of the device decided to go the way of getting rid of the extra holes on the case, since only one key, this three-way joystick, with which and by response to a call, end call, volume control, voice activation control, etc. By and large, managed and eat fish, and ride on a swing key, convenient, no mess and other things. Fixing clear with the military alert clicks to press when the headset on your ear, comfortable habit appears instantly.
The indicator light is made in the shape of a crescent, it's pretty big, I'm such not particularly like. It's not a bad thing, just that I always mention the excess light that emit a headset at work, it affects visibility. In general, this indicator is acceptable, disable it, by the way, you can not.
Food
Claimed battery headset to work is 8 hours of talk time and 180 hours standby time, in practice it is close to these figures, you will have enough sets for use within three days if not particularly strong on "Download". Given that the cradle is always psychologically helps in the timely charge (for some it is an original evening ritual - planting the device into the interior of the stand), it is unlikely that you will be discharged to the bottom of a headset. By the way, sorry that the product does not charge the car, some people in this great need. Full-charge time - about two hours, the battery is noticeably shaken "after the second and third charge, an increase of somewhere twenty percent. On this parameter in the device there's absolutely no problems.
Communication with the phone, sound quality
When you turn the unit immediately goes into discoverable mode, password standards, it's 0000. Connecting to a Sony Ericsson P1i took a few seconds, it is safe. To connect a second phone (it was a Samsung Symphony), I had to disable P1i, make pairing with Samsung, then connect to the headset P1i again. Process, despite the long description, it is extremely fast, going without any problems. You can only talk to one device, the second is activated by the end of conversation at first, this is not an ideal implementation, but I totally felt as far away progress when walking in the park with your child and, almost without taking hands from his pockets, talking on two phones . In any case, Multipoint - very handy thing.
Voice quality excellent, or close to it, the system will suppress the noise in this version works very well, it seemed to me that even the Jawbone was left behind (of course, design is much better). You can safely talk on the 520th, when a number of very loud music playing, this is something he says. Dialing, last number, activate voice dialing works well, no complaints.
Conclusions
To date, price / quality ratio is definitely one of the best products, see for yourself, somewhere beyond the $ 65 you get:
Quite an interesting design
Convenient single-button control
Multipoint
Quality system of noise suppression
A good package, there is a cradle
Cons have no headset, I can only say again that I do not particularly like the design, but it's hard on amateur, depending on your taste. Besides, I'm talking about design, but, meanwhile, understand that here it is secondary, I like to talk to her aid, like a cradle, like the fact that it is high quality and inexpensive thing you can heartily recommend the purchase. Moreover, among the competitors of this stuff may be just some things the same brand and several headsets Jabra, for example, Model BT5020, which I have here some weeks I can not get to test (a reason not to me). Hopefully, it is also good for voice quality, as well as 520-I.
