Bluetooth headsets, my arch-nemesis
This is a rant. 
A couple days ago my good friend maiki twittered about listening to his iPod via a bluetooth headset, and how much he enjoyed it. My response was “I fricking hate bluetooth headsets”. And we are talking the white fury pumping through your veins hatred. It was such a strong response I was a little surprised. I thought I’d sit and talk about bluetooth headsets, and why I am not a fan.
My biggest grievance with bluetooth headsets is I feel they are a waste of electricity and lithium. A corded counterpart will work just fine, but we don’t want to deal with that. After being used for, lets say 300 recharges the inner rechargable battery will be fairly shot, and you’ll have to replace it. I can reconcile using materials like this for devices like cellphones, because they need to be portable. But to use some of our limited resources to make batteries for wireless headphones, just because we don’t want to hassle with cords seems wrong to me.
I am not saying people should throw their bluetooth headsets away; the material has already been used to create it. When it comes time to replace your headset, maybe think about just going the corded route.
That is all; rant is over.
Category: Random 2 comments »
December 28th, 2008 at 12:20
I get that. I don’t think I would replace the headset I got unless I become really used to it by then.
The neat thing for me is that it will eventually get to the point where Bluetooth is used in other devices, like wearable computers.
Also, this particular headset will switch from my laptop/iPod to my phone when I get a call, and looks snazzy on top of that. It is pretty cool.
But I do not think it outweighs the waste factor. We need to seriously be more aware of the materials that go into the electronics we buy.
Hey, what do you think of the GA-M57SLI-S4? E-mail me, of course. ^_^
January 19th, 2009 at 15:18
I agree. Bluetooth headsets need to go. There will be an entire generation that grows older wondering why they have tumors and cancer growing like some menace in their head.
It has been pretty well established that transmission waves are a cancer cause. The British media has this well documented although the US media refuses to print it because of the amount of money riding on cell phone sales and other peripheral items.