Review: Sony Ericsson MW-600 bluetooth headset
One of the perks of my job is that I get to try out a great variety of technical gadgetry. Today I am for your benefit reviewing, the Sony Ericsson MW-600 bluetooth headset.
If you have been reading previous posts on this blog you may be familiar with what a great part headphones in general and lately headsets specifically play in my life. In my line of work you spend a lot of time on the phone, so I need to be able to do so in the most convenient way available. Not only that, but I’m also constantly listening to music while working, or in the car, or on my bike. And I am doing so from a variety of devices, sometimes from the computer, sometimes from the phone, sometimes from my other phone..
Finally there is a product on the market that allows this to happen. The MW-600 works great for this. Like other products I have reviewed in the past it is multi-homing, that is it can be bound via bluetooth to several devices at once. This is normally tricky business since Bluetooth seems to be a rather flexible protocol, and some phone brands abuse this (Apple, I’m looking at you) and never lets the other phone in on the action. Other glitches with bluetooth and music I have seen in the past like music occationally dropping out, or being at a wierd, unchangeable volume, seem to finally be fixed.
So with the MW-600, you finally get the feeling that you get a product using bluetooth that is a really polished product. You get a nice friendly display which lets you pick 1. where do you want your calls to come from and 2. where do you want your music to come from. So you can even, without any hassle, be playing music from one bluetooth source while accepting and making calls from another bluetooth device. Wicked! You also get a built-in FM radio as a music source.
The MW-600 can handle three simultaneous devices. For me that means my work phone, my personal phone and my iPad. But other choices could include a laptop with bluetooth or even a gaming console.
Now my only gripe is that the display works great with the iPhone, showing the names of music tracks in the display and the names of contacts calling you also. But oddly this does not work on Sony Ericssons own phones, whats up with that? A very minor gripe on an all-around awesome product. Also the display is OLED, which I thought would mean that it would be really cool, but It’s not. In any kind of outdoor enviroment the display is impossible to read. It’s not a dealbreaker, but annoying.
Did i mention its going for really cheap? A solid investment.
