I just received the Motorola Elite Sliver Bluetooth earpiece. I purchased it on sale from an eBay store. It cost me $35 USD. Shipping in the US was free. As I am in NZ, shipping cost me a bit more than the cost of the earpiece.
The Motorola Elite Sliver is a somewhat thick round tube which circles around the top of the ear. The speaker rotates to stick into either ear. Overall it is very comfortable to wear and doesn't block sound appreciably. The speaker is round and sits just outside the ear canal opening. It feels quite stable and secure hooked over my ear. It fits like the earpiece of a pair of glasses. There is a small rectangular button above the earpiece that faces forward. This button appears to control volume. It cycles through quiet, middle, loud, middle, quiet, and so on. The back of the tube is a round button. This is the answer, disconnect button. When I hold the button in for more than a few seconds, my iPhone redials the last number. Pressing and releasing the button activates Siri. Pressing and releasing again seems to deactivate Siri. The charger is a little box that the earpiece fits into. It contains a battery so the earpiece can be recharged a couple times even when away from power. The box can easily fit in a pocket, bag, or purse. The box connects to power using a micro-usb connector. The unit comes with a short usb to micro-usb cable, and a wall plug with two USB ports on it. This earpiece shows battery status on the iPhone. When I first activated the earpiece (by removing it from the charger box), it started saying "Ready to pair." It also gave the pairing code if necessary. This announcement repeated until I paired it with my iPhone. After pairing, which was automatic once I selected the Motorola Elite Sliver, the unit told me it had five hours of talk time available. The Motorola Elite Sliver uses Motorola's Crystal Talk signal processing technology to block extra noise. Before I accidentally stepped on and broke my old Motorola H17TXT earpiece, I found the crystal talk technology worked quite well even when I was in noisy and windy environments. When I let the earpiece speaker go on standby, it takes between two and three seconds to begin speaking again. This is normal. However, it starts speaking the first phrase which woke it up. I haven't tested it yet with GPS announcements, but this behaviour is new, so I suspect I will have positive results with GPS announcements when I test it later. Also, the audio announcement of key presses appears to be shorter than with my previous earpieces. Of course, this unit has A2DP profile, so it works with VoiceOver. After about an hour's use of the device, I feel comfortable in recommending it. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
