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Samsung debuts Modus HM3500 Bluetooth headset with noise-canceling technology

By | March 24, 2010, 5:30am PDT

Summary: Samsung has announced the sleek-looking, “convertible-style” Modus (HM3500) Bluetooth headset, incorporating a dual microphone system and noise-canceling technology, among other advanced features.

Samsung has announced the sleek-looking, “convertible-style” Modus (HM3500) Bluetooth headset, incorporating a dual microphone system and noise-canceling technology, among other advanced features.

The “convertible-style” refers to the fact that the Modus can convert to a Stereo Bluetooth headset when you want. Plus, it also comes with a pair of earbuds for extra listening options.

Another useful feature on the HM3500 is the integration of multipoint technology, which connects two Bluetooth-enabled audio-streaming devices (i.e. cell phones, MP3 players, etc.). So when a phone call comes in, the headset automatically lowers the volume to alert you and automatically resumes playing when you’re done.

The battery life on this BT headset is about six hours of talk time or 200 hours on standby, and its powered via micro-USB.

Pricing and a release date haven’t been announced yet, so keep your ears open.

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Robert Carnegie 2009 26th Mar 2010
You make an interesting point. I'd imagine that speech recognition ought to select the frequencies it listens to itself, but maybe not - and also, Microsoft advises against reasonable telephone Bluetooth sets that only use 8-bit sound on the microphone. But then, any time I've asked their software to play back what it heard from me on a decent wired set, it sounds like Thomas Edison on a cylinder. Am I missing some secret switch that would make speech recognition (standard in Vista and Windows 7, but I'm still on XP) a far less horrible experience? I'm told that Vista does have much better speech recognition than before, too.
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I think I want one - for PC media and speech recognition.
Robert Carnegie 2009 24th Mar 2010
"Talk time" is one thing, how about "just listen" time?
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Speech recognition?
pessimist 25th Mar 2010
Let's see if the "noise cancelling" is active or passive.
Passive uses two back to back mic elements, wired so that room noise is picked up by the "back" mic, then inverted and combined with the "mouth facing" mics output. Read cheap.
Active uses an ic that looks for low freq, more or less constant noises, and scrubs these too. This is considerably more effective, but doesn't need to add more that 15-20 bucks to the price. However a lot of the vendors really jack up the prices outrageously for the "active". In speech recognition, active can be a real improvement.
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Robert Carnegie 2009 26th Mar 2010
You make an interesting point. I'd imagine that speech recognition ought to select the frequencies it listens to itself, but maybe not - and also, Microsoft advises against reasonable telephone Bluetooth sets that only use 8-bit sound on the microphone. But then, any time I've asked their software to play back what it heard from me on a decent wired set, it sounds like Thomas Edison on a cylinder. Am I missing some secret switch that would make speech recognition (standard in Vista and Windows 7, but I'm still on XP) a far less horrible experience? I'm told that Vista does have much better speech recognition than before, too.

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