So you’re in the gym looking über cool with music playing through your headphones, and suddenly a wire gets caught up somewhere on the treadmill’s armrest and your head is pulled back, you trip and fall on the floor, the phone jumps out of your pocket and lands in the lap of the fat woman pedaling on the bicycle. If you’ve been in any similar scenario, then you know how ridiculous, annoying, and embarrassing it is and you know that wireless should be the way to go.
I have been using the Nokia BH-903, a stereo bluetooth headset, for a few days now in the gym with my N82, and to say that this marriage has impressed me is an understatement.
The BH-903, which Ricky has reviewed in detail earlier, has a nice fit in the ear, which means that it won’t pop out every now and then for no reason. It also comes with a nice around the neck style earphones that make it incredibly easy to wear it without worrying about it dropping. The whole headset is very light so you won’t feel that you’re doing some weight lifting while wearing it. Music quality is as good as with other headphones, even though this is a wireless one, though do keep in mind that I’m not an audiophile. It also features an OLED screen which is perfect indoors and makes it a bliss to control music as well as voice calls without even taking the N82 out of my shorts’ pocket.
Which brings me to the N82 that, combined with a good microSD memory card, holds a lot of my favourite tunes. With the music player launched and playing through the BH-903, the N82 has no reason to be out attracting prying eyes. It sits in my shorts pocket, with Step Counter running and giving me detailed information about my performance after I finish exercising, which is highly convenient for sports lovers.
Although the BH-903 has changed the way I exercise, I still think there’s a lot that needs to be done in order for me to break my wallet and pay a huge sum for it. The OLED needs to be more visible outdoors, the earpieces should be in-ear and not usual earphones, the volume scrolling should work better, and I should be able to read messages on the screen. Volume synchronization with my N82 is a MUST, as sometimes the volume is 100% on the N82 but 0% on the BH-903; on other headsets, when I modify the volume on the headset, it’s also modified on the phone.
What is your perfect sports gear? Do you use your S60 handset to track your progress or to listen to music while exercising? Do you have a bluetooth headset or do you still carry an ordinary wired one?
