The danger of a Bluetooth headset is that the majority leave you with the Alan partridge look, that casual boom microphone with a large lump of plastic stuck in your ear, plus on the functionality side you barely have room for any buttons except a main answer or end call switch, instead they rely on voice activation.

The HBH-200 is an in ear headphone similar to those shipped with personal stereos the cable also contains the microphone with a good background sound compression system.

The control unit is a small silver section with a backlit LCD screen, this contains the Bluetooth electronics and also allows more functions of you phone to be accessed than the standard headsets. As well as answering calls the unit can be synchronised with compatible phones to download the address book, this enables you to search contacts on the control unit and for caller display to function.

Battery life is a claimed 70hrs and a talk time of 3.5hrs, it is easier to charge than some of the headsets and can be attached to your clothing with a clip or on a lanyard. A key feature ensures compatibility as it can work with both the "headset" profile and also the "Hands free" one more commonly used with car kits. This seems to get round many of the issues with Ericsson kit working with Nokia or other phones the hands free profile is far more rich allowing the caller lists and caller ID aspects.

The device can be criticised as being a bit low on volume in noisy environments so its not all good news, but if you can use this device in Hands free mode its hard to beat.

More Sony Ericsson Reviews

More Bluetooth Headsets -

[ Bluetooth Headset Reviews ] [ Jabra BT300 ] [ Motorola HS850 ] [ Motorola H500 ] [ Bluespoon AX ] [ Jabra BT500 ] [ Nokia HS-4W Bluetooth Headset ] [ Bluetake BT400 G5 ] [ Belkin Bluetooth Headset ] [ Bluetrek G2 Headset ] [ Motorola HS820 ] [ Sony Ericsson HBH-300 ] [ Logitech Bluetooth Headset ] [ nXzen Gennum 5500 ] [ Sony Ericsson HBH-GV435 ] [ LG Prada Bluetooth Headset ] [ Motorola H9 Review ] [ Qstick EVOQ ] [ Jabra BT330 Review ] [ Nokia BH-800 Review ] [ Jabra SP100 Speakerphone ] [ Jabra BT250V ] [ Jabra Bluetooth Headset BT200 ] [ Plantronics Bluetooth Headset M3000 ] [ Nextlink BlueSpoon Bluetooth Headset ] [ Sony Ericsson HBH-200 ] [ Nokia HS-11W ] [ HBH-600 Bluetooth Headset ] [ Jabra BT800 ]