Motorola HS850

The Motorola HS850 is nice looking but its true, people can't hear you well and the volume is not loud enough, my mic has also stopped working after a year and a half or so. You can't connect it USB to anything, so that's not good.... you need to carry the AC charger everywhere. Would probably not reacommend it since it's not that comfortable either.

The Motorola HS850 is easy to operate but they can't hear me. Sounds muffled. I can hear them part of the time.

Boom is short. When I pull away from my face, they still cant hear well. I re-tested it by send voice mail to myself, and I see what they mean. is it too late to return?

Keep looking. I can't hear the call without holding the piece closer to my ear and even then it's difficult. Adjusting the volume doesn't solve the problem.

It's handy, however, I can't hear the other person and they can't hear me. Is there a way to turn up the volume? If you can't hear what good is it?

Within 3 months the microphone stopped working (you switch it on by unfolding the mic), so the cable must have snapped inside. Not good quality for such an expensive device. I'm disappointed.

The HS850 was my first bluetooth and I wanted to buy the "best"; however, the 850 anit it! It's pretty comfortable to wear, good battery life; but, the MOST important think is to be able to hear, well you can't. The volume only goes up so high and if you drive too fast you can't hear well either.

There is a lot of rubbish on the market today, this headset is definitely worth a few quid more.

This Motorola HS850 is the second bluetooth device that I ever owned. The first was Samsung wep150, hated it. The sound was horrible and the thing kept falling off my ear. The HS850 is far better than what I had. The pairing was easy to my Samsung d407. The sound just blew me away.

Finally, the style of the device is very nice. I know there are those that have had bad experiences with this device, but I have to say I am very pleased because I have had a dud before. So, I know when one is good and when one is not. This one is highly recommended by me.

As with the Motorola H500 bluetooth headset that I have, the Motorola HS850 has a very bad outgoing voice transmission, and this is paired with a V3. Customers are always asking me what I said. I'm taking it back to the store, and I am going to try a different brand, and not the Jabra's. They are like ordering a burger through a clown's head and they have a really bad setup for charging. I had one go bad on the second charge. I haven't had a good bluetooth set yet that worked well with picking up my voice. They pick up other sounds, but not my voice. I find myself shouting. These are the worst devices ever invented for what they are charging for them, and they need a real, true sound engineer to come up with one that works well... like maybe a fold up mic that gets pretty close to your mouth would be nice. I've dealt in mics for a long time, and having one at your ear isn't going to pick up anything but other sounds in front of you. The human voice throws forward, not backward toward your ear. That may be the reason the sound transmits in a muffled quality. A good test for these devices is to call your answering machine and record what you sound like. You'll be appalled, especially if you make business calls on these things. I hate talking to people I can't hear well.

I have 7 different bluetooth headsets. I have found Motorola's to work the best with range and dependability factors. However, the volume on my Motorola 800, 820 and now the HS850 have all been very very weak. I spent 25 dollars on eBay for a cheap bluetooth headset, and it goes twice the volume of the Motorola. The problem with that one then becomes the range. Very frustrating to spend as much as I have and never find a headset that works as I think it was intended to. Perhaps I can find a bluetooth hearing aid to assist in using the headset. Come on Motorola! I have been a faithful customer for over 20 years, but this is starting to send me elsewhere.