Reviews for Bose Bluetooth Headset Series II - Right Ear

Quite simply the best out there, tried many others but never happy, only downfall is the relatively short battery life, but more than makes up for it with excellent sound quality! Very comfortable to use, hardly notice it is there, even hours later! Makes using a headset a pleasure!

I have had this Bose Bluetooth for about a year, and it works great. I recently ran it over with my vehicle when accidentally dropped it getting into my car. I did have a few issues with it syncing with my iPhone 5 & my Ford Sync., but no problems with iPhone 4S. THe bluetooth version on iPhone 4S, is a earlier version than the iPhone 5. I went to Apple and learned a good lesson about bluetooth, that I will share here. Let me first just say the Bose bluetooth works great, and this is just my personal experience. The problem is Bluetooth v2.0 , 2.1, 3.0 etc.. is much different than 4.0. The higher the version the more bandwidth the bluetooth uses. Having two devices synced with the iPhone caused problems. The vehicles bluetooth system use a much larger bandwidth,(I think it's like 5.0), covering more frequencies than a headset. When I would have the iPhone bluetooth synced with the Ford Sync and the Headset, they compete for bandwidth. Even when only one is connected, turned on or even in range, the phone is still looking for the other one. This continuous searching by the iPhone for the other bluetooth causes problems. I deleted (forgot the devise), and it works without any problems. I use the bluetooth in my car instead of the Ford Sync, and I haven't had any problem with it loosing connectivity as I did before. The iPhone definitely has some problems with bluetooth connectivity. I was also told to sync the vehicles bluetooth first, and then add the headset. The vehicle will take a larger frequency range of bandwidth, and the headset will find a open bandwidth easier than a vehicle will. It's not fool proof, but it helps. I know it's a pain, but if you can sync you iPhone with only 1 device, it seems to work much much better. Hope this helps with earlier Q's about iPhone issues and Bose headset. Again personally I really like my headset. I work outside sometimes, and in a noisy shop, and it works well for me just like I was in my living room. Not to mention Bose customer service is great.

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I sometimes like to use my headset to listen to music in a social setting. I decided to leave feedback after listening to dubstep, yes dubstep, and it sounded awesome. I've never heard a bluetooth earpiece that actually had bass. Simply incredible. I've used jawbones, blue ants, plantronics, and more,and they are all good, but none come even close to the sound quality of this awesome product!

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I'm a big Bose fan, with a variety of lifestyle and portable products in my home and within the family. I was very dissatisfied with the first gen of the Bose BT headset due to the inability to use it outdoors (ex. walking across a parking lot) due to sensitivity to even the slightest amount of wind. I bought a generation 2 with the hopes that the advertising was accurate about it being largely immune to outdoor interference. While it is better than the original, it's still strongly affected by even a very slight breeze (far-end connection complains about loud wind noise). So, I've invested $300 into Bose BT headsets, but cannot use any of them anywhere other than when I'm sitting at home/office or in my car (which already has hands free).

I would not recommend this product until Bose improves wind noise rejection. I'm not asking that it work in a hurricane. But, it should not inject loud wind noise into the far end in a 5-10mph breeze.

18 of 26 people found this useful

Great piece of kit i have had mine for twelve months is there any software updates?

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I use a bluetooth headset a lot - both for calling and listening to podcasts. I saw this one but thought it was expensive so ended up buying several others and being disappointed before then buying this (so costing me more time and money in the process). It's not that the others are 'bad' but they were just not as comfortable for extended use and the sound quality just not as good.

The others I bought were typically more 'premium' models like the Plantronics Voyager Pro HD (comfortable, bit bulky and sound not as good), Jabra Surpreme (the one I would rate as number 2 to the Bose - Jabra Bluetooth Wave (ok found sound but just did not fit all that well) and a Motorola HX550 (good sound but did not fit as well). Think I also looked at a Jawbone but it only supported voice not sound for music / podcasts etc.

Overall the Bose won - it's small, best sound (both for calls and podcasts / music) and most comfortable. Yes it's the most expensive (about twice the price of most of those listed) but if you use it a lot it's worth it.

48 of 48 people found this useful

Purchased these mainly due to my love of Bose products. However they have exceeded my expectations.

Clear sound, comfortable to wear.

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I bought this headset based on the Bose name, I had it a total of one day then returned it, I make a lot of business calls during the day while driving from client to client. Most of my clients told me that it sounded like I was calling from a tin can, and I also noticed it was hard for me to hear the calls when I had the window down. I purchased the Jawbone Era headset, and was amazed that the quality of the sound and the callers said that they could not tell that I was on a headset. It announces battery level, and announces the callers name when a call comes in. I do not have to hunt around for the call button to take a call, I merely tap once anywhere on the unit to take a call and tape again to end the call.

56 of 67 people found this useful

I've owned Bose BT series 2 for 2 weeks, it works great.
I can easily connect / disconnect it between my Iphone and my Nokia cellphone.
clear voice of the headset and the microphone.
battery life last a day ( talk about 4 hrs ).
very durable in my ear ( I almost wear it 6-7 hrs ).
I can talk while my iphone is 18 ft away without call interruption!
light weight and looks nice on my ear.

I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

34 of 35 people found this useful

I own Bose products for my tv, desktop computer, iPad 2 (wireless speaker) and now this Bluetooth.i must admit this is my first Bluetooth ever, which I use for iPhone 4S so I can't compare to other Bluetooth brands. Yet I don't bother with other vendors when Bose has consistently delivered the highest quality sound products with the products I've purchased. No company or product is perfect but Bose is pretty close.

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