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| 7 of 8 people found the following review helpful  Big hair and blue tooth dongles, By Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: ARCTIC P311 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones, Integrated Microphone, 20-Hr Playback – Blue (Electronics) I really like these bluetooth headphones; despite my big thick hair they fit me quite snugly, which I would want them to be for the moving around I do. I tried them on my kids who like them as well; light, snug, comfy. No more fights over chewed wires, I expect. Paired effortlessly with my Apple products. Partial pairing with my Windows 7 computer, looks like I need to get a dongle for it to work properly. For those of you who don’t get the whole dongle thing (I still don’t completely), Amazon do offer a similar color headset from Arctic with a dongle for a bit more money. I’ve got it on order to use with the Windows machine. But what I’m seeing from the “suggested items” to buy with this, I can get a Class 2 dongle that will let me pair more than one headset (up to three), or a Class 1 dongle that will let me pair one set of headphones. You *probably* can use any brand that’s up to the spec; it doesn’t seem as if it is necessary for you to use the Arctic branded dongle. The charger that comes with it is just a wire, standard USB to small usb (same as the Nook and many cell phones). There is no wall wart. Presumably you can plug it into any USB wart or port, I plugged mine into a pretty powerful one and knocked out a first charge (red ring while charging, no LED ring when done) rather quickly. The instructions are full of pictures, with an … interesting use of real estate. But simply: To turn it on, depress and hold the button with the phone image for about three seconds. The light will go blue (and is blue periodically when in use). If you are wearing it, you will hear a noise to indicate it has booted up. To turn it off, depress and hold the button with the phone image for about three seconds. The light will go red and shut down. If you are wearing it, you will hear a noise to indicate it is shutting down. To put it in pairing mode, turn it off. Next, depress and hold the button with the phone image for seven to ten seconds until the light ring flashes blue, then red, then alternates. Sound quality and ambient sound entrance is decent. Low level sounds are low, mid range recordings mid range volume, super loud shoot and blow things up movies are super loud. Update 12/02/2012 Bought a Bluetooth 4.0 micro USB adapter to pair this properly with my Win 7 machine. Inserted the driver disk, updated drivers, paired the headphones without the USB adapter – so I’ll try it on the XP machine next. One limitation of this device is single-device pairing. I can only pair it to my phone or my computer at any given time, can’t switch back and forth seamlessly. Update 12/16/2012 Nope. One headphone per device. Windows limitation. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful  Stopped working after two months, By LINDA HERMAN (WALNUT CREEK, CA United States) – See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: ARCTIC P311 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones, Integrated Microphone, 20-Hr Playback – Blue (Electronics) Bought these for use with an old XP laptop. Worked fine for two months. Suddenly today they stopped pairing. Tried pairing them with a Win 7 PC and a cellphone, neither of which detected the headphones. The Artic user manual is useless and the support site is worse than the user manual. Update: The product comes with a two-year warranty. When I contacted Arctic to inquire as to the return process, this is the reply I received: “Hello, Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen In other words, there is no warranty. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful Great product for the price, Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: ARCTIC P311 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones, Integrated Microphone, 20-Hr Playback – Blue (Electronics) I have bought 3 pairs of these, one for myself and a couple fo the kids, and I must say you can’t beat what these things give you for the price. The battery life is decent, your phone will run out of juice before they will, and they’re not uncomfortable. I used to work out with earbuds and would get annoyed with them popping out or the friction from them being wedged in my ear, along with the sweat on them. With the p311′s i haven’t had any problem wearing them running or lifting or riding my bike; they go over your ears and every now and then will get incomfortable if they ride down and sit for too long, but the performance is good. I’ve even used them for Skype(mic is on the right earphone). |
