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The Helium Digital Bluetooth Communicator HDBT-110 (5)
By admin | June 6, 2007
In the Office
In the office the Helium Bluetooth Communicator can be used as an impromptu speaker phone for sharing conversations. It definitely has better quality reproduction than the speakers built into most phone PPCs or cell phones and it seemed to have better pickup at the microphone as well. It seems to work as well as, or slightly better than the units built into desk phone units and would be good in a smaller boardroom / meeting room with 4 or 5 other people. It certainly wouldn’t work as well as a dedicated speakerphone in a larger boardroom.
Pairing with laptop is also very easy, with the Communicator showing up as a headset unit. You’d impressed with the quality of the sound reproduction on music. It certainly isn’t as good as a home stereo or a decent pair of headphones, but it had much better frequency range than the speakers in the laptop and most of the smaller external speaker sets available. It would be quite usable for sharing a presentation, including music, with a small to medium group. On the laptop, there were even settings for audio quality – standard and high. Switching to the High setting did produce a noticeably (albeit) slightly better sound.
Documentation
The Communicator comes with an illustrated User Manual which describes all the functions and features of the unit. It’s also available on the website. Not so often nowadays you’d read documentation which has been written by someone who speaks English natively :). The documentation is crisp, to the point, and covered all the salient points of using the Helium Communicator. The only hitch: it’s in English only. Maybe other language translations will be coming in the future.
Conclusions
This unit is very easy to use. It’s great to use in the car, when you want to include others in the conversation. May be the only things any user would wish: slightly stronger magnets, just so you get more of a ‘clunk’ when attaching it and illuminated buttons for night driving would be wonderful.
Source: pocketpcthoughts.com
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