Review of Bluetooth-headset Nokia BH-902

Package Contents:

• Headset
• User
• Mount for Belt
• Charger

If you have not listened to a podcast about the headset, you can not listen to him and, in this sense is now no. The fact that the number "9" in the designation of the headset means that it belongs to the image-technology segment, the first such was the BH-900, many of you reading this article it is well known. Good thing, right? And the longest leg of the microphone, through which achieved excellent voice quality and the DSP, and polusportivnoe mount, and expensive plastic - was an excellent product that seems to have already withdrawn from the market and gradually sold off from the warehouses. Still in the review 900th I talked about that, de, it would be good to see something in this series with the display and the same quality of voice. It has been nearly a year, and that's you, please, - Nokia BH-902, a dream come true. But more on that later, more of a "ninth" series will be discussed in the review of BH-903.

Design and construction

The headset is made in a recognizable style, which began, if memory serves me, even with an adapter that came with the BH-500, also here there are also features of the Nokia N93i and other accessories.

I like the design: the front and bottom panels of shiny plastic used (that it is transparent, invisible) in the middle - the silver "filling", the paint I have a concern, it should be neat. The headset does not look great in your hand, but when you wear it, you understand the purpose of this very "sandwich", rounded corners and so minimalistic form - she's just trying to look thinner and smaller. In fact, on the ear with a little girl she would look ridiculous, it's ours, traditionally male product.

The assembly, in principle, a good, light scratches are present, but the gaps, gaps not. Podium speaker is small, the headset is pressed to his ear, no bulges more than necessary.Mic hole is made in the form of slots, you can see the crack, so she hit me in the arm, not my fault. It is, incidentally, is noticeable only visually, but, in general, there potentially dangerous site, pay attention to it when buying.

Convenience, a way of wearing

In the best tradition of wearing headsets from Nokia BH-902 in two ways: with and without bow bow. The latter is made of metal and filled with "velvety plastic, ear, she shakes, fatigue and discomfort, not causes. Basically, my ears more like a universal wear it just like that, without the bow - and sticking fast, and just somehow easier. I really like the complete belt clip, it is the same as in the kit BH-803 is made of metal. Groove for the strap is provided to change the situation, you simply turn the shackle, if not, then simply paste into a symmetrical ear canal (pardon the expression). In general, wear comfortable, everything's great.

Management

There are only four buttons, all located at the ends of the headset. This is a power button, on the other end there is a long button, which integrates the "+" and "-" volume control, multifunction key. Although, if the deal, then all the buttons here perform at least two functions. Management is implemented well, everything is intuitive, the buttons are soft, but clear progress. The habit comes quickly, well, by virtue of features of the product you're easily controlled with BH-902 in various conditions. It is also gratifying that the company did not have flickers, the buttons are large, even when wearing gloves they are easy to grope.

Menus and extras

Strictly speaking, in the head office I would like to tell about the main thing, because if the BH-902 to remove the screen, it will be quite large conventional headset with an interesting design. But it is not, because on the front panel is a three-line OLED-display. I'll start the story at first. When you turn on lights inscription Nokia, the font is the same as in the memorable HS-12W, bluish shaped as letters, the photos they have turned white. Headset immediately goes into pairing mode, you see scrolling by default Russian language (at least in my sample): "Pairing: use code: 0000". Let us assume that we're moved our unit in pairing mode, and found BH-902, entered the code, and it all happened.On-screen sets will be the name of your phone or laptop, before it is drawn checked. Actually, now's the fun starts. Suppose you are sitting quietly at work, a headset in your hands, at which time you can only see a small Bluetooth icon in the corner of the screen, it appears at intervals of several seconds, there is little noticeable to others. In fact, just when you wear the headset on your ear, then observers see only a black glossy cover, but that's when receives a call, or call you ... Well, first things first.

So, when you press the buttons adjust the volume or the multifunction key, the device wakes up, appears on screen battery indicator, which consists of four divisions, the icon of Bluetooth, a digital clock. To get to the menu, you must press the Power. The first paragraph - "Call list" to go into it, you press the multifunction key. To scroll through the volume control buttons are used, in general, and the baby will understand. To exit from any section to press Power, press again, you get to the "desktop". Well, now specifically for each of the sections:

Call lists

During the initial pairing with your phone, go to this section, you will see a message stating that synchronization occurs last call lists, and the operation takes about twenty seconds. After this at your disposal the three points - incoming, outgoing and received calls, all of them have the last ten numbers, you can immediately dial a number by pressing the multifunction key.

Connection

Here is the item "Coupling", if you select it, then the device goes into pairing mode. The second paragraph - "Device List", it is about eight connected devices, you can reconnect to any of them, if it is within reach and actively.

Settings

The first paragraph - "Setting caller ID, you can choose whether to display during the call display information about the subscriber or not (number or name if you are in contact). If you select "Hide", the screen will be only the icon of calls, it is gratifying, if you want you can take all the necessary information by simultaneously pressing both volume buttons. I understand why it's done - like when you're in the office wearing a headset on your ear, not very nice to show others who is calling you, the approach is absolutely correct. The second item is a time setting, you can choose 12 - or 24-hour display. The third item - the language setting, the fourth - the brightness, to be honest, work adjustment is hardly noticeable with about half of the scale, and so very bright. The fifth point - reset or reset to the default settings, from memory erased all of the devices.If suddenly BH-902 "hung" (Sometimes it happens), then you need to connect it to the charger and press the multifunction button simultaneously and Power, will be made "soft" erasure.

In addition to the above, the display shows icons for incoming or received call, mute, active second-line, unread SMS (only for phones Nokia), the last character displayed in "sleep" mode, together with an icon Bluetooth.

In short, what we have in the end? As a result, we have the full beauty when it is possible to move the headset on the list of calls, dial numbers, see who is calling (correctly "podtseplyayutsya and Russian, and typed in Roman letters contacts). Additionally, you can check the time, battery level - sort mikrotelefon obtained. There is not enough unless a small address book, like Jabra BT 8010. Praise the product from Nokia could for an hour, but alas, there are some, so to speak, of strangeness.

Food

Claimed battery talk time is 8 hours of standby time - 110 hours, charging time is about two hours. A standard, thin, built-in Nokia, this is good, a "charging" it is easy to buy in case anything happens. Real time will greatly depend on how often you will refer to the screen to work with him, I have a headset has lived somewhere for five days to turn off when not needed, talk was about an hour. If the day you're talking about three hours, and during this time will be used headset, then you can talk about work for two days off for the night. The result for such a device is quite good and even very good. Battery indicator greatly helps in the timely charge, look socket is where have the last division (about an hour in standby mode).When you connect the charger, the indicator displays the charging process.

Communication with the phone

The first thing I will say about the quality of sound, the device was tested with the following devices: Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition, Nokia N91 8Gb, Nokia N95 8Gb, Sony Ericsson K850i. Almost all of them (below you will understand why it happened) headset has shown itself at the height of the home and office, and on the street and in the car. Voice quality at an altitude, there is a DSP-processor, his work is well seen in noisy environments. How would you say ... The sound is very natural, there are some products that you want to hold his hand, to correct what a tweak there, according to BH-902 you just want to talk, this is the best response (all in the best traditions of the BH-900). During the call, you can adjust the volume, display filled the scale. One of the interesting functions - mute, would be useful to all users, this is another function that gradually gotten all modern products are expensive price category. Last number redial, voice-call work with no problems, everything is clear, Push email works correctly for phones Nokia. When a message arrives, the display will be notified about this, it vanishes, it remains an icon, it does not disappear, until you read this message (and it works only for phones Nokia). About the pairing, last number redial from the headset to talk, I will not, all described above, it all works. Multipoint is not supported, although there were rumors that he is.

And now the bad. Nokia BH-902 - one of the first headset in my hands, which had to be overloaded by about twenty times. Identify issues that subtle brain device does not hold, in principle, possible, here they are:

• Reconnect to another phone, may hang after you are disconnected from one device and performs interfacing with other
• Stuck in the moment of transfer of the password from your phone or laptop
• Turning off the microphone, call transfer from phone to headset paired with your phone is not the parent company

Now on with each of the phones. With the Nokia 8800 SE work almost perfectly, without any questions (not the first time managed to carry out conjugation). The same with Nokia N95 8GB, only now without any problems. With the Nokia N91 8Gb begun issues, in particular, have been transferred to the headset only the numbers from call lists, the names do not appear in any language. For these devices is all well and the transfer to the headset installed ringtones, vibrating alert is not here. Most also have a big problem with SE K850i. In the process of pairing the headset hangs at the second time it happened, well taken and the number and names of the call. But here's the sound of the headset is not in any way, though you tresni, when trying to transmit voice from a speaker phone in the remote device appears on the screen that it's impossible. At first I was following the great adage "if it did not go skiing, then I have the usual" sinned in his hands and head, after pressing certain keys you can directly from the headset to transfer the call to the phone and back again. However, when I translated the sound to the headset, the parties have heard a great silence. In short, can not be used, like this. Experiment with all available-aids I have neither the strength nor the desire, and everything is clear.Look at the list of profiles on the screen of K850i, displayed only a headset, but should still be at a minimum, and the audio device. With that, and there, and there is Bluetooth 2.0, it is strange. You can draw this conclusion: there is a return to the old days when Nokia was working only c Nokia. Moreover, there is still trenchant - Nokia, which only works c Nokia, and even then not all the Nokia. Of course, if you own a Samsung or Motorola, you too can buy the BH-902, but do not forget to buy to try everything that is possible.

And real happiness will find the owners of the past (again, with other possible normal function, but we must try) phones and smartphones for the parent company of them all clearly. And, in principle, be called a niche product does not turn the language for devices that fully support all the chips in the 902nd, a dime a dozen in the market.

According to the product range of a medium, the effective distance from the tested phones was four or five meters, the A2DP is not supported.

Conclusions

If the market now such devices have been few, and at least one of them would work perfectly with all the apparatus, the test results would be different. However, what really the soul of the curve is the first headset (Jabra BT800 does not count, there are all somewhat different), where you can work effectively with lists of calls, see the names of subscribers. That there is a possibility? It's really comfortable, do not get the phone at all, voice dialing is used because not many, and far yet to the ideal of this function. Situations can come up with a lot, I think you yourself can do it better than me.

Now the price is around four sets of thousands of rubles, it is justified, only one competitor - Jabra BT8010. Incidentally, it is quite possible that she was the prototype of the 902nd, but until I see incorrect work with lists of calls, the inability to download the application for editing your notebook, and the ideology of the product is different (the voice quality is worse than that of the 902nd ). Generally, a strange situation: to recommend these products to purchase is possible and necessary, but with a mass of reservations - if you talk about the BH-902, the owners of Nokia phones range in 2007 is certainly worth a look at it, if some of them are owners of the BH-900, then this is the only correct replacement. Everyone else should we go to a salon and get a good device to torture, then to not have been excruciatingly painful.

And I can not do without another dream. Well, why would not actually move the telephone rules and some accessories? Say, six months is quite possible to make BH-802i, which would be added full support for devices of different brands (I believe that it is there, but strangely all the same), a notebook for at least ten rooms with the possibility of changes in PCs, improved materials of the body, you can just make it black. Still begs a thought: what if we add the A2DP profile and 2.5 mm jack for connecting headphones or earphones? Well, it would have increased slightly in size, so what? Or is it BH-903 you get?

Specifications:

• Weight: 19 grams
• Wearing: with or without bail
• Hours Talk Time: 8:00
• Standby: 110 hours
• Features: OLED-display, the ability to view lists of calls