I was so excited when the mailman dropped them off. I charged them up, and about three hours later I tried pairing them with my iPhone. It was surprisingly flawless. I couldn't beleive it! I was streaming music to my new Motos perfectly. And it sounded great. I placed a call and the other person heard me well and I could hear the other person real well, too. I was outside and was kind of windy. I asked the person on the other end if they could hear the wind and they said not really, so that was good. All of the controls on the sides work except for the ability to change the track. Not a huge deal but I was kind of disappointed that it didn't work. Better it be that control than the volume control or the play/pause button, I guess.
On another note, I tried pairing these 'phones with my laptop and it wasn't quick and easy like I was hoping. First off, I have a ~14" HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop running 64-bit Vista Home Premium sp2. It doesn't have bluetooth built in but I bought a bluetooth dongle from amazon.com for about $3 shipped. I installed the bundled software and tried pairing with my iPhone. It paired fine so I thought it'd end up working fine with the Motos. It didn't. I kept pairing and unpairing hoping to hear something throutgh the phones but no hope. I uninstalled the software to try and use just use the Vista drivers. They paired but still no sound. I searched around online for any tricks with no luck. I unpaired the 'phones and repaired again and voala!, it worked! For some reason it works fine now and I havn't had any problems yet. They sound good listening to music and podcasts through iTunes. The controls on the sides didn't work, except for the volume, unless I had the iTunes window on top of all other windows. I don't know why it works like this but okay, no biggie. I havn't really listened to anything else yet, but I'm sure they will sound great. I have built in bluetooth on my Dell Mini 9 running XP sp3 so hopefully I will have a flawless pair with that.
There are a few quirky things about these headphones: the lights flash in weird sequnces depending on what you're doing, you hear different sequences of beeps depending on what's going on, and the battery can last up to about 30 days! Yea, seriously, 30 days! I'm sure that's in standby mode but still. That's seems pretty impressive to me. The beeps you hear aren't a big deal once you learn what they all mean (they're all explained in the documentation). And I also learned that the lights can be turned off when you're listening to music, which I was really happy to find out. I didn't want to be listening to music with lights flashing on my ears.
Aside from these little, and kind of inconvinient flaws, I would still recommend this product. If you're looking for some great sounding stereo bluetooth headphones to pair with your iPhone or pretty much any other phone or computer, I would really recomend the Motorola S805's. Not easy to pair, but well worth it because they sound great and look good.
UPDATE: I'm disappointed...I can't get these headphones to pair with my HP anymore for some reason. They pair with my Dell Mini 9 just fine, though, so that's good. I sometimes have problems connecting to the headphones with my iPhone, too. If I unpair and repair them though they usually work. The soundd quality seems to have deteriated as well. Plus, I don't know why or how, or maybe it's just my ears, but songs are starting to sound like a low quality mp3 file, and not a decent aac file. I know these are some pretty big complaints about the product, but it is still worth it to me to use these 'phones. It is a huge advantage to listen to music without the cord. And, they were only thirty bucks so I can't expect too much.
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