How does it work with Siri? Say for example, you turn off voiceover, so you can have a interactive dialog with Siri, can the bluetooth do this?
Thanks, Traci On Apr 18, 2013, at 6:22 PM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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: dchitten...@gmail.com > 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
