Thursday, April 24, 2008

Why are so many things so much better when you don't pay for them?

It seems like whenever i taste someone else's food, it tastes better than when i buy the same thing. Especially french fries, someone else's fries just taste so much better, why is that? I recently got this Soyo Freestyler 500 Bluetooth Headset for free thanks to Google Checkout and Buy.com and for some reason, it seems to be so awesome, despite a few minor gripes. Probably because it was free.

Opening it up, as usual, is a breeze, thanks to a handy pair of scissors. I know that these plastic clamshells are a bane to many people, but i enjoy taking them apart with laser guided precision and solid stainless steel. Now, on to the specifics...

The headset works fine for my PS3 and HTC Mogul Cellphone. I can hear people well, and they can hear me just fine too. The volume output on maximum has a little buzzing noise, but the volume doesn't need to be that high, and the noise disappears when you turn it down a notch.

As far as the fit goes, it's fine, and the headset also comes with a corded earpiece with a pocket clip, so you don't have to use the ear hook style piece. The build quality feels slightly stiff, but not cheap, it just doesn't have that slightly soft feel and has a more brittle feel than i'm used to. The main button takes more pressure than you would expect to push, this may be a good thing to some people, and a bad thing to others. then again pushing it also feels snappier than one would expect.

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