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Sprint Hero and Motorola's s9-HD: A love/hate story

So I love my Hero. Sure its not perfect and yes I would love an update but I wont die without it. It may limit its usability but even still its better than any Palm, or WinMo phone I've owned including that cursed Touch Pro.

So more to the point, I listen to music all the time. I have Pandora and 2 different music widgets just to switch between songs faster. I get a reward certificate from Best buy and decide to by a pair of Bluetooth headphones. I see the Motorola S9-HD's are on sale and with my discount I basically got them for 5 bucks. I take them out and they look pretty cool. I put them in my ears and the sound quality is great. But the first thing I notice is that they are pretty snug. Actually after about an half hour in my ear they hurt like hell and I had to switch the ear buds, which still pinch a little but arent as bad.

Is anyone else having this painful problem?

Also the more important problem....I CANT DO JACK SHIT ON MY HERO IF IM USING THESE DAMN HEADPHONES!!!!! Like what the **** im sending a text and each time i press a key the headset pauses for a second or two. I mean i can deal with a pause when i get an alert, email, or text in but do you have any idea how ****ing annoying it is for a song to pause everytime i touch my phone or even put it too deep in my pocket?

Someone please tell me its just this headset and I need to exchange them, otherwise ill be quite pissed.
 
So I love my Hero. Sure its not perfect and yes I would love an update but I wont die without it. It may limit its usability but even still its better than any Palm, or WinMo phone I've owned including that cursed Touch Pro.

So more to the point, I listen to music all the time. I have Pandora and 2 different music widgets just to switch between songs faster. I get a reward certificate from Best buy and decide to by a pair of Bluetooth headphones. I see the Motorola S9-HD's are on sale and with my discount I basically got them for 5 bucks. I take them out and they look pretty cool. I put them in my ears and the sound quality is great. But the first thing I notice is that they are pretty snug. Actually after about an half hour in my ear they hurt like hell and I had to switch the ear buds, which still pinch a little but arent as bad.

Is anyone else having this painful problem?

Also the more important problem....I CANT DO JACK SHIT ON MY HERO IF IM USING THESE DAMN HEADPHONES!!!!! Like what the **** im sending a text and each time i press a key the headset pauses for a second or two. I mean i can deal with a pause when i get an alert, email, or text in but do you have any idea how ****ing annoying it is for a song to pause everytime i touch my phone or even put it too deep in my pocket?

Someone please tell me its just this headset and I need to exchange them, otherwise ill be quite pissed.

I think you're just being whiny. It's the phone itself, not the headset. Any change of service will cause the streaming media source to delay. The issue isn't that big of a deal.
 
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I've got the same headset. Love it. It does "hiccup" occasionally, but the benefits outweigh that. I'm also rooted, which has helped the overall user experience, including Bluetooth stereo headphones.

It's definitely working out the phone using with streaming input AND output as NYCHitman1 mentioned.
 
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