Astutely aesthetic, Nokia's new Bluetooth headset trio comprises the 9-gram BH-800 loop headset, the slide-on BH-200 and the BH-900 - complete with sliding boom microphone.
Picking a fight with miniature headsets such as the Nextlink Bluespoon 5G and
Motorola's newly unveiled H5 Miniblue, Nokia today announced the Bluetooth Headset BH-800. The headset, which weighs a mere 9 grams, is smaller than a thumb digit and relies on Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR to offer a talk time of up to 6 hours and up to 160 hours of standby. To be available in coffee black or silver white, it supports the Headset and Handsfree Bluetooth profiles, and is equipped with buttons to control power, volume and voice dialing.
Also announced today is the BH-900, which comes fitted with the same technology as the BH-800 but also adds noise reduction and echo cancellation to the feature mix. The larger size also allows for improved battery life with up to 8 hours of talk time and 180 hours of standby time, for which the price paid is double the weight of the BH-800 at 18 grams. Also featured in the BH-900 is support for Push-To-Talk over Bluetooth, with likely competitors including among others
the Motorola H605.
Rounding out the trio is the Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-200, which, despite its lower numerical denomination, is lighter and smaller than the BH-900 at 14 grams. Accordingly, its talk and standby times are also slightly reduced at 5.5 hours and 150 hours, respectively.
The Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-200 is planned for commercial availability in the first quarter of 2006, as is the BH-800. The two handsets will sell for $55 USD and $140 USD, respectively, whilst the BH-900 nudges in between at $100 USD with a launch date set for the second quarter of 2006.
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