Silent Conversations With A Bluetooth Headset
Treonauts has a funny conversation about his friend and the small problem of forgetting that you’re using a Bluetooth headset.
After not being able to get a hold of his friend, he finally sent him an instant message. The explanation was funny.
“Like most Treonauts he was using a Bluetooth headset but had answered the call on his Treo forgetting that his calls were being automatically routed to the BT headset instead of the smartphone… Thus no matter how loudly he would speak he couldn’t hear a word of what I was saying as my entire conversation was coming through loud and clear but to the headset on his desk instead…â€
Although you can route the call back to the phone by selecting the option on the screen, you may lose your caller before you notice. It’s an interesting problem that doesn’t have a solution yet.
I have yet to jump on the BT headset bandwagon. When I was a real estate agent and on the phone constantly, I used a wired headset. It worked well for me and I used it constantly until it broke a few years later. Now, however, the only calls I receive are rare, so a headset is useless for me.
I’m actually very grateful that I’m not tied to my telephone anymore. It got to the point that the sound of the ring was an irritation to me. Now, my phone ring means something fun is going to happen. The life of a writer is far quieter than the life of a real estate agent, but it doesn’t pay as well. Of course, I don’t have to spend all that extra money I was earning on lock boxes, signs, advertising or BT headsets…