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Phone Accessory - BlueAnt BA-SUPERTOOTH3 Bluetooth Handsfree (Black)
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List Price: $129.99
Our Price: $87.69
Your Save: $ 42.30 ( 33% )
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Manufacturer: BlueAnt
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Binding: Wireless Phone Accessory
Brand: BlueAnt
Color: Black
Feature: Handsfree speakerphone for a safer, legal alternative to talking on your cell phone while driving; affix to the sun-visor via a two sided magnetic clip
Label: BlueAnt
Manufacturer: BlueAnt
Model: BA-SUPERTOOTH3
Publisher: BlueAnt
Studio: BlueAnt
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Features
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Handsfree speakerphone for a safer, legal alternative to talking on your cell phone while driving; affix to the sun-visor via a two sided magnetic clip
Uploads contacts from your mobile device and announces who is calling via TTS (Text To Speech)
Full duplex, high-performance speaker; DSP noise cancellation/echo cancellation adjusts sound levels to compensate for loud engine noise, wind
Bluetooth version 2.0; up to 15 hours of talk time, up to 800 hours of standby
Includes: Bluetooth handsfree unit, travel/wall charger, 2 sun visor clips, user manual
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great improvement over previous models
Comment: I owned the first version of the Blue Ant Supertooth and this is a nice improvement. You don't need to flip a big switch to turn it on and it pairs up automatically with my Blackberry Curve. My one complaint is that the voices available are a bit annoying. The US English is odd and the UK English sounds too seductively like a James Bond girl. But overall it is a good product and I plan to buy one for my wife's car.
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Summary: Great, but could have been perfect
Comment: The BlueAnt Supertooth 3 Bluetooth car speakerphone has performed well in the week that I've used it, but I can't help but think it could easily have been even better. Here is a brief summary of the pros/cons/areas for improvement. For reference, I have been using the phone with two Katana LX phones on the Sprint network.
Pros:
Design is compact, attractive, and very functional with large buttons and helpful indicator lights. Sound quality is good to excellent, with the noise cancellation working very well. The package includes both car and AC adapters, as well as a second visor clip.
I am extremely pleased that voice-activated dialing works brilliantly. While this is partly a function of the good implementation in the Katana LX itself, it is very nice to be able to hit one button on the Supertooth 3 and then tell the phone who to call, all _without_ having to pre-record anything. This function has dramatically improved the safety of making phone calls from the car, in my opinion.
Cons:
I was unable to upload my address book, either automatically or manually. For me, this is a minor inconvenience as you can still hear the phone number information, but I could see how it would be annoying for some. I feel BlueAnt should provide a more extensive list on their website of compatibility issues.
Areas for improvement:
Voice answering: This is a very nice feature, but made less useful by the fact that you have to wait for the CallerID announcement to finish and wait for the beep, before you can say "OK", "Accept call", etc. Much easier to just hit the green button. Would be nice to be able to say the commands at any time.
Pairing and automatic connection: This is the area that I feel BlueAnt really could have, with minor investment in engineering, taken a huge leap over the competition. The Supertooth 3 can be paired with up to 8 devices, which is nice. However, only 1 device can be paired at one time. The part that is annoying is that, when reconnecting, it will only look for the last phone that it was connected to. My wife and I share a car, so if I use the car after she does, I must manually connect my phone to the Supertooth 3 and vice versa. While not such a big deal, it makes the device not completely "set it and forget it". This could have been solved by making the Supertooth 3 look systematically for all paired devices when it reconnects.
I can also imagine people who have multiple cell phones (personal/work for instance) would love to be able to have both devices connected to the Supertooth 3 at once so they could receive calls on either phone. This issue would likely require modification of the hardware, though.
In summary, the BlueAnt Supertooth 3 is a well-designed, very functional speakerphone that makes making phone calls in the car much easier (and safer!). I have high hopes that a future iteration of this device will be truly seamless and not require user input to operate on a daily basis.
Customer Rating:
Summary: BlueAnt Supertooth 3
Comment: Really wanted this to work. Very easy to sync. But the background noise complaints from callers and people saying "I only hear about every 3rd word" meant I had to return it. Other reviews said it works great with iPhone, and it does connect wonderfully--even giving a voice greeting the minute you get in the car to let you know it's on board-- but the sound quality isn't there.
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Summary: Better than the Rest
Comment: Over the past few years I have purchased and used no less than 4 different Bluetooth devices for my Blackberry. My installed Motorola 850 (built-in) with seperate speaker and microphone was OK but everybody said I sounded like I was underwater. I also have a Motorola Bluetooth headset device and a Plantronics 510 Voyager. Both again work OK but are uncomfortable hanging on my ear after 2 or 3 hours driving. I kept going back to my wired over-the-head headphone with boom microphone.
I saw the ad in a recent airline Skymall book for the BlueAnt ST3 and then looked it up online. Figured for $100, it was worth a try. I received the ST3 in a few days, charged it up and gave it a try. To my surprize, it worked flawlessly. Sound quality was very good and everybody I called said my voice quality was very good. No more, "you sound like you are under water" comments. The ST3 did not handle my Blackberry phonebook (over 900 entries) but I did not buy it for that feature, I bought it for talking hands-free while driving and the ST3 does this "Better than the Rest".
Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent product
Comment: this product works perfect, very clear call quality, very loud, you just have to be careful when you are out of your car that you have the bluetooth turned off on your phone because the range on this is way way long. you can't go wrong with this product !!!
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Wireless technologies are more and more popular because they linked the mobile network and Internet together. One of these modern technologies are Wireless LAN (WLAN), Bluetooth,
and Wireless Application Protocol
(WAP) are implemented as an extension to or
as an alternative for wired LAN to make the
communication more flexible and powerful to fulfill today’s need.
WLAN is one of the modern one, effectively Ethernet without wires.
It helps users to access a data network like the
Internet at high speeds of up to 11 megabits per
second (Mbps) as long as users are located
within a relative short range (typically 30–50
meters indoors and 100–500 meters outdoors)
of a WLAN base station (or antenna). This is a good alternative to most laptop users to assess Internet and getting popular most part of the developed world.
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