How foolish of me, I was composing this blog post and did a search really fast to dig up any previous articles I may have written about headset’s. Well I found a blog post about the Nokia BH-900 that I never published but instead left it as a draft! My loss is your gain however since now you’ll be inundated with enough information about headsets to make your head spin.
First of all Engadget Mobile is nice enough to dig up some info on the BH-100, BH-208, and BH-303. Ari Havela however signed a request for short term confidentiality. This plea spans 45 days so we probably won’t see pictures of these devices show up at the FCC until the middle of February.
How convenient that the middle of February means the 3GSM conference in Barcelona! Yet another event I wish I could go to and cover 🙁
Back to the BH-900, the review was done by one of my favorite websites: Mobile-Review
This Bluetooth headset looks like something from the year 2015, I love it!
The negative aspects are some I need to touch upon:
- The BH900 is overpriced by at least 20 USD
- Rather poor sales package for such price; it would be nice to get a pouch and a strap as well
- Missing metal parts, even though consumers expect exactly details made of metal, having looked at the photos.
The poor sales package … where do I begin on that one. Apple sets the bar, and recently Microsoft with their Zune, when it comes to packaging. It’s become an utter delight to unwrap a device. A plain cardboard box with some styrofoam container, a manuel, a charger and a phone inside just doesn’t cut it anymore. When a customer spends that much money on something they expect the experience to be glamorous. We have to remember however that Apple is getting reamed by environmentalists while Nokia is being praised for their efforts at being green. Packaging materials have something to do with that I think, but I could be wrong.
Point I’m trying to make is, you should wow the customer at every step of the purchase. From the unboxing, to the first boot, it should be something that stays engraved in ones memory.