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Jabra BT320s vs Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 bluetooth battle!

How can you listen to music and answer the phone wirelessly from your cell phone at the same time without taking out the phone and miss a call? Your answer is, Jabra BT320s or Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970.
SE (Sony Ericsson) has nice features and specs (such as Bluetooth 2.0, Jabra only supports Bluetooth 1.2), but don't let the specs fool you. Here are the nicknacks about both hardwares. They both are small and featherweight (I was totally suprised that bulky Jabra has similar weight to the skinny SE). SE has 1 liner LCD that can display songs you are playing or incoming call phone number. SE also displays battery status but it doesn't show the battery status everytime. For some reason, when you can see your track title on the LCD, you can't see the battery status (vice versa). I think this is a bug because I have read the manual but I didn't find any information about this.
As for the Jabra, you can only find information on its colorful LED blinks (you have to decode those colors). A screen would be a nice addition to Jabra because I need to watch out for telemarketers. While playing music, Jabra will show you blinking purple color, which is pretty cool but you can turn it off if you don't like it.
Now, time for the main purpose of these products. How does it perform as a headphone? SE sounds really flat, like those old bass-reflect speakers. Amazingly, Jabra is totally different from SE. Jabra has a nice vibrant sound, sounds like you are listening from a cable. if you are still not happy, you can use any headphone that is currently available with standard headphone jack. You can connect jabra in your car if you have standard headphone input jack. You will hear some noises between tracks in Jabra, but it didn't bother me that much.
I was using SE K800i phone to test these two headsets. I had lots of dropped connections with SE while listening to music (without skipping tracks). the SE headset connection problem was intensified when I was skipping tracks so often (ended up, I restarted the headset). Jabra was so much better at the connection. Connecting at the first time was really hard (that's what I heard and I experienced that too), the first connection in Jabra failed and I had to restart the phone and the headset. Jabra also had skipping tracks problem (perhaps, it's just my phone, the SE K800i). One last note, that Jabra has way better bluetooth range and has better battery life than the SE.
I paid for my SE headset for total of $65 from e-bay and Jabra headset for $79.99+tax from fry's electronics.
Overall (Price, design,weight, functionality, etc, etc), I would rate SE headset as 6.5 out of 10 and Jabra 8 out of 10. The bluetooth technology has done a good job, but improvements are always good (yep, bluetooth is getting there).
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