Sony Ericsson MW-600 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

I've had this headset for a few weeks now and I'm highly impressed. First off the audio quality is great, the sound is clear and doesn't get any interference from other sources. There is probably some loss over the bluetooth connection but only the most dedicated of audiophiles will notice. I use mine while cycling and commuting. Its particularly useful on the bike because it means I can listen to music and take calls with my phone is in my backpack, with no annoying wires to deal with. As a handsfree, the headset performs well again, the microphone is clear. I sometimes get complaints of background noise or my voice being quiet, but thats generally a feature of most handsfree kits. It can also be paired with up to 3 devices, so you can use it as a headset for your PS3 and for making Skype calls on your computer.

Battery life is good, I got over a week of light use between charges. I'd say with more regular use you'd be looking at 2 or 3 days without charging. One very useful feature is that if the headset dies or loses the connection, the music pauses on the phone, instead of blaring out at full volume on the train. The radio reception is alright at best, however I've generally been using it in a built up area, and I'm not using the headphones that were supplied with the headset. I don't use the radio much anyway so I can't really give a good opinion there.

There are however a few headaches that I should draw everyones attention to. First, and the biggest one, while the headset can display song titles, most phones don't have the correct bluetooth profiles for doing this. The profile you need is AVRCP v1.3 or higher, most phones only have v1.0. I'm using a Nokia 5800 and that won't display song titles.

Second issue is the caller ID, it displays the callers phone number, not their name or anything. I suspect its a similar problem to the song titles in that the bluetooth profiles aren't advanced enough yet to support this. Also mine sometimes drops the connection for a few seconds when I'm going over bumps on the bike, although that may be unique to my unit.

I sometimes get the same buzz that another reviewer mentioned, but again I'm using different headphones to the ones supplied, and you don't notice it unless the volume is muted. The volume slider isn't as annoying as others are making it out to be, it basically works like the scrolling strips on a laptop. My advice is to not look at the display when your adjusting the volume, you'll just keep missing the level your aiming for.

Overall though I have to say its a fantastic piece of kit and after buying one, you'll never want to see another wired handsfree kit again.

This is a brilliant set of bluetooth headphones, excellent battery life, works perfectly with an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.1; including track skipping, which most other headsets don't seem to be able to do.

I had a couple of sets bluetooth headphones for my iPhone, most suffered from poor battery life (2-4 hours, forget to turn them off at your peril), poor signal (can't keep you phone in your hip pocket and listen to music), and non-waterproof controls (I'm looking at you Motorola S9HD).

This suffers from none of those things.

As of writing this, I've forgotten to turn the unit off for the last 3 days, it still has half a charge left, so the battery life is officially excellent.

I can happily walk down the street listening to my music with my iPhone in my hip pocket, there is no degradation, no skipping.

I can use it in the gym, because it's waterproof and so isn't affected by sweat, unlike so many other units.

If I had one issue, it's the volume control which, while perfectly intuitive, is sometimes slow to respond, but that's a minor issue when you can now control the volume via the iPhone itself.

All together an excellent piece of kit, highly recommended.

I have to say, I am thoroughly impressed by this device. After ripping it (well actually cutting it) out of its packaging, I successfully paired it with my iPhone 3G and immediately started to use. First up, the battery life is pretty good as I last charged it about 2 days ago amidst constant use while working during the day with the odd phone call here and there.
I have mostly been playing music using my own brand of headphones. however there are two niggles: one, the clip to attach to clothes etc. is very weak indeed, you have to be careful not to sending it flying especially in London on the tube. I overcame this by attaching a lanyard to it to wear round my neck. Two, the volume button is a little annoying, it is a touch sensitive strip with gets in the way when holding the device so you might in inadvertently increase/decease volume without knowing.
But the ease of use and range of the bluetooth easily eclipses any other bluetooth device I have used including the Motorola S9s. The clarity is superb and the on-board radio has Radio-RDS which is a nice touch with a suitably long battery life. The display is also very nice and I had no problems receiving calls but as the bluetooth profiles of the iPhone is still lacking, I could not directly make a call or control the previous and forward tracking but any phone or music player with the correct bluetooth profiles should work perfectly