{"id":5585,"date":"2010-08-28T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2010-08-28T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T08:31:55","slug":"the-objects-of-my-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/5585","title":{"rendered":"The Objects of My Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I got a new phone, and I\u2019m so incredibly in love with it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a HTC Desire<\/a> android phone and I honestly don\u2019t know what I would do without it. \u00a0It does everything for me, it’s my mp3 player, phone, camera, ereader, agenda… it’s my brain!<\/p>\n

\"htc-desire\"<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t it pretty?<\/p>\n

My preciouuuuusssss\u2026<\/p>\n

I love that I can lay in bed and read, and if I\u2019m still awake and reading an hour later I can check my email and maybe throw out a few messages on Twitter before I go to sleep.<\/p>\n

I love that when I\u2019m going somewhere I can use it as my mp3 player to listen to music or as a GPS if I need directions.<\/p>\n

I love that if I\u2019m out and see something interesting or funny, but don\u2019t have my cameras with me, I can use it as my camera.\u00a0 I can even quickly pop the photo up on Facebook and share it with my friends if I want to.<\/p>\n

I love that if I go to the doctor and need to make a new appointment, or am out with friends and am making plans, I can open my Google calendar and have my agenda at my fingertips.<\/p>\n

I love that when I do enter the appointments that my phone automatically syncs with Google so when I get home all the appointments I\u2019ve made are already automatically added to my agenda when I look at it on my laptop.<\/p>\n

I love so<\/em> many things about this phone that I won\u2019t bore you by continuing this list\u2026<\/p>\n

There is one thing I don\u2019t love though, in fact I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns.<\/p>\n

\"htcheadset\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This POS headset that comes along with it.<\/p>\n

If there is one complaint I would ever have about HTC it\u2019s that they are yet to really put thought into what consumers are looking for in a headset nowadays.\u00a0 Does anyone even buy this type of headphone anymore?\u00a0 I absolutely despise them because the sound is terrible, they don\u2019t fit in my ears properly, the foamy little covers always get all manky no matter how much you clean your ears.. ugh.\u00a0 HATE.<\/p>\n

This lead me to a rather frustrated search for a replacement which wasn\u2019t a very easy task as I was quite fussy about what I wanted.<\/p>\n

It had to have a remote that allowed me to control my music which included skipping back and forth between tracks and volume control while also having the ability to answer calls.\u00a0 It\u2019s more difficult to find than you think!<\/p>\n

Then I found this baby\u2026 the Jabra BT3030 Bluetooth Headset<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"jabra1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was a little unsure at first because I\u2019ve never used bluetooth for anything other than transferring things between my laptop and my phone, but I loved the idea of not having to deal with cords connecting my earphones to the phone.\u00a0 Many times I\u2019ve dropped my bag just to have my earplugs wrenched painfully from my ears after forgetting I was attached to the phone!<\/p>\n

This remote can either hang around your neck dog tag style or clip onto your clothes using the clip on the back.\u00a0 The earphones are corded to that, but that\u2019s not really a nuisance at all as I wear it around my neck and the cord doesn\u2019t get in the way of anything.\u00a0 I can walk around with my phone in my bag while controlling music and phone calls with the remote hanging around my neck.\u00a0 I can also sit my phone on a table in my house and wear the headset around while I do housework or cook.\u00a0 It\u2019s fantastic!<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t like the dog tag style thing that goes around your neck it is also easily removed and can be replaced with a lanyard or something else of your choice.\u00a0 I quite like it though.<\/p>\n

\"jabra2\"<\/a> I worried about it draining the battery on my phone, which has not been an issue. I don\u2019t notice the battery going down any quicker than it did any other time.\u00a0 Also the battery in the remote seems to last quite a long time.\u00a0 There are different sequences of button presses for different things you want to do, and to check the battery you press the volume + or \u2013 button which causes the \u201cJabra\u201d on the bottom to flash either green, yellow or red to show the battery level.\u00a0 I\u2019ve used it for a number of hours already and it\u2019s still green.<\/p>\n

Also, as you can see on the photo to the left, it\u2019s backlit. So if you are using it at night, listening to music in bed or in a generally badly lit area, you can still see the buttons.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t stay lit, so you aren\u2019t walking around looking like a tool.\u00a0 It just stays on for a few seconds while you do what you need to do.<\/p>\n

So if you, like me, have an HTC phone or other mobile and are having trouble finding a headset for all your needs, you really should check this out.\u00a0 I recommend it wholeheartedly.<\/p>\n

If you want more technical details you\u2019ll need to click one of the links.\u00a0 That\u2019s really not my bag, sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few months ago I got a new phone, and I\u2019m so incredibly in love with it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a HTC Desire android phone and I honestly don\u2019t know what I would do without it. \u00a0It does everything for me, it’s my mp3 player, phone, camera, ereader, agenda… it’s my brain! Isn\u2019t it pretty? My preciouuuuusssss\u2026 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[72,118],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-geek","tag-gadgets","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}