Smartphone Experts Hybrid Headphones

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HP Veer Smartphone Experts Hybrid Headphones

Product Description

The Smartphone Experts Hybrid Headphones for Treo is a headset that also doubles as a set of headphones. The headset comes with a microphone and a one-touch button, and has been designed to plug directly into your Treo.

This single headset allows you to do a variety of things such as listen to music, be alerted of an incoming call, and answer and hang up calls with a one-touch button.

Headset Features

Headset that also doubles as a set of headphones
It comes with microphone, and one touch button
High performance speakers for best sound quality
Light weight, comfortable in-the-ear design for discrete listening.
Plugs directly into your Treo headset jack
2.5 mm plated L-shaped Stereo plug

In MP3 Mode:

Listen to music with crisp, clear sound
The incoming call ring tone will be played in both ear buds

In Hands-Free Mode:

Answer and end phone calls with the one touch button
Listen to phone conversation in both ear buds

Note: Some functions may not work with all devices

TreoCentral Expert Review

TC Review: Smartphone Experts Hybrid Headphones

Reviewed by Andre Kibbe

The product photo of this headset is all I had to go on when I ordered my review unit, and I was honestly unimpressed. One guy's "cool industrial" design is another guy's "utilitarian and boring" design.

Then it came in the mail. As soon as I pulled it out of the envelope, I realized my original hasty assessment was . . . right on the money.

Well, almost. The anodized aluminum coating is a nice detail that doesn't come across well in photos. The aluminum housing for the microphone controller and earphones give the product more heft than typical headsets molded from plastic. It's a small detail, but it does affect how you feel about them in your ears. Most plastic earbuds feel like they're always about to fall out of my ears, but that's largely because they lack weight, not traction. These earbuds feel like they're going to stay put, because the additional weight increases my ongoing awareness of them in my ears.

I haven't used the headset long enough to get a reasonable sense of how durable it is over a few months. In cheap headsets, problems related to mediocre build quality usually surface around the third or fourth month. The wires' insulation is a little on the thin side, and the connection is somewhat loose inside the aluminum housing that terminates the wire below the earbud. It seems like it wouldn't take much wear to break the connection, but as mentioned, that's not based on actual long-term experience.

When the jack is properly seated, the sound quality is surprisingly good for a $15 headset. I only notice some minor distortion in the upper midrange when electric guitars were playing. The biggest problem is keeping the jack properly seated. Even though the jack tends to look and feel securely inserted, silence or sibilance (a hissing on high frequencies) usually indicates that the jack needs some adjustment. Once I would push the jack deeper into the Centro than seemed warranted, the sound problems would vanish. Typically it was the rotation of the jack that would bring the problem on. If I had the Centro laid on the desk, there were no issues, but if I started walking around with the phone in my pocket, the movement would induce jack rotation, and the sound would cut out or distort from time to time.

The call quality, inbound and outbound, was pretty much in line with what I expect from wired headsets: muted highs, but clear enough in the bass and midrange to be practical. Virtually all wired headsets have this characteristic, so it's pretty easy to identify callers using them.

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A thin line!

User: Sean Burris, Dec 19, 2006

Pros: Sounds great for talking and music
Cons: Not very durable

I had a set of these and the sound was great for listening to music and clear for talking, but the quality of the wire used isn't all that great. The sheithing is thin and the internal wires are even more thin. I ended up with broken wires to the point that I had to wiggle and twist the wire just to be able to hear. Not real great for even normal every day use. Mine lasted about 2 1/2 months.

good for two weeks at most and then you get..................

User: Ken Johnson, May 12, 2007

Pros: possibility of an ideal head set and cheap
Cons: only a possibility of ideal heat set and cheap

This was a great item as I first thought. Two weeks later I found out why they were so cheap. It's because they are. I called treo central and the reps were awesome. Quickly they replaced my item, but I received the second only to fall subject to the same problems. The connection for the cord between the phone and the adapter part connects just fine. It's the wire just behind the adapter that acts up on you. The sound is incomplete. What is incomplete you ask? Buy it and you'll have a whole new understanding of what the sound is incomplete means. The ear piece begun to muffle and distort quality and sound itself. In addition, there is this siren of a sound that you get every once in a while, mostly every while. Then there are those time you get the opera effect. It's like you hear everything in echo format at a distance - clear yet slightly muted. Don't get me wrong. It's great if you want people to hear you, but don't count on hearing them let alone any music. The best thing I can say about this headset is I had the chance to bring caution to you before hand.

Bad quality

User: Jonathan Leger, May 10, 2007

These earphones works only for the first few days then will start to malfunction. It is so thin that it easily breaks and gives you a choppy voice transmission. It comes very cheap but still not worth buying. I would rather have something that would cost more and last longer.

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Flimsy. Broken.

User: John Kelly, Mar 31, 2007

Pros: Sound was not bad.
Cons: Fragile. Now dead.

These lasted about six months before the actual housing came apart on BOTH sets I had purchased. I suppose you get what you pay for.

peice of junk

User: j vadake, Mar 30, 2007

Pros: sound fair
Cons: poor quality

poorly made; head peice broke off in few wks and then stoppped working

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