Bluetooth

[Texsox]

[bkmoney]

good for driving, makes you legal to talk on phone in some areas.

 

bad for possibly every other time.

[Texsox]

Can you hear me? There's too much background noices, where are you at? I'm about ready to chunck mine in the garbo.

[Chisoxfn]

I freaking hate those things. People look like idiots with them hanging in there ear but I admit they are good for those that have to talk on the phone a lot when they drive.

[zimne piwo]

Don't have one, have no desire to have one. I have a cell phone but I don't use it all that often, only when I really need it. Seriously there's NO ONE I want to talk to THAT BAD that would have me constantly yakking away on my cell phone (especially at airports or other public places).

[BobDylan]

Have one, but not for my phone. I use it for the PS3. Works great.

[rangercal]

Does anyone really feel safe having that thing against your head over a long period of time?

[IlliniKrush]

I have one, I only use it while driving or sitting around the house. I agree that the people using them in grocery stores or wherever else are dbags, especially if you have to interact with people. But I hate holding the phone to my ear, even if at home, and of course it makes driving a lot easier.

[mreye]

My buddy's Grandfather-in-law was over at his house and was wearing one. He was in the area from Arizona and he's 80+ years old. WTH do you need that for, old man? You're 80! No one's going to call you! (Except maybe the Grim Reaper.

[southsideirish71]

I love mine. However I only use it when I drive, or when I am on call for work and have to type on my laptop to fix something, while talking to someone that doesn't speak too good of English at 3am. Outside of that I don't use it. From a security standpoint the things scare the crap out of me at the corporate level. Not for phones mind you, but for laptops with bluetooth installed.

[G&T]

I love the headset but I don't use it while I'm walking around outside. That bothers me.

[RockRaines]

Don't have one, have no desire to have one. I have a cell phone but I don't use it all that often, only when I really need it. Seriously there's NO ONE I want to talk to THAT BAD that would have me constantly yakking away on my cell phone (especially at airports or other public places).

Its illegal in chicago to talk on your cell phone without one. Hence why lots of people have them. I travel for business and its neccessary, in my new car I have speaker phone with bluetooth which makes my life so much easier when im on the road.

[Kid Gleason]

I use a regular little headset when I drive or when I am writing. But if somebody ever sees me walking around with one of those things attached to my head while I am just "out and about", you have permission to beat the living crap out of me. The headset, by the way, only gets put on when a call comes in. I don't leave it on full time. I'm not an idiot.

Edited May 11, 2007 by Kid Gleason

[vandy125]

Uhhh, Cell Phone? Don't have one of those.

 

I do have a pretty sweet pager though.

[Balance]

I use mine when I'm driving, and I like it a lot better than when I had an earpiece with wires. It's the law in Chicago, too. Can't drive while using a cellphone unless you have a hands-free device.

 

There is absolutely no apparent enforcement of this, though. Every single day, I see several drivers talking, phone in hand, held to their ear.

[NorthSideSox72]

Using a "hands-free" set for your cell phone doesn't make you any safer a driver. That law in Chicago is pretty much worthless. Studies are indicating that talking on a headset is no less dangerous than on a hand-held cellphone. From those studies:

 

Many studies have shown that using hand-held cell phones while driving can constitute a hazardous distraction. However, the theory that hands-free sets are safer has been challenged by the findings of several studies. A study from researchers at the University of Utah, published in the summer 2006 issue of Human Factors, the quarterly journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, concludes that talking on a cell phone while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk, even if the phone is a hands-free model. An earlier study by researchers at the university found that motorists who talked on hands-free cell phones were 18 percent slower in braking and took 17 percent longer to regain the speed they lost when they braked.

 

A September 2004 study from the NHTSA found that drivers using hand-free cell phones had to redial calls 40 percent of the time, compared with 18 percent for drivers using hand-held sets, suggesting that hands-free sets may provide drivers with a false sense of ease.

[IlliniKrush]

If that's the case, then talking to any passengers in the car falls in the same boat.

[thedoctor]

bluetooth=clipping your cellphone to your belt.

[Kid Gleason]

Using a "hands-free" set for your cell phone doesn't make you any safer a driver. That law in Chicago is pretty much worthless. Studies are indicating that talking on a headset is no less dangerous than on a hand-held cellphone. From those studies:

 

I still don't get the whole idea of "just talking on the phone is what is dangerous". How much more dangerous is talking on a hand free device than actually speaking to a living person in your car?

[Middle Buffalo]

However I only use it when I drive, or when I am on call for work and have to type on my laptop to fix something, while talking to someone that doesn't speak too good of English at 3am.

This makes me smile.

Edited May 12, 2007 by Middle Buffalo