Griffin SmartTalk Bluetooth headset review

One of the features of the SmartTalk is that it gives voice prompts. When we paired it with the Apple iPhone 3G for the first time, it said "Griffin SmartTalk paired successfully," and when the headset is connected, it said "SmartTalk connected." There are also other voice prompts like "Call accepted" and "Call rejected." The voice prompts are helpful for those who are new to Bluetooth headsets. However, we found the quality of the voice prompts somewhat disappointing--they sounded a bit muffled and hard to hear. We could make out what it said only after referring to the manual.

Call quality was fairly good but not great. It does a decent job in canceling out background noise, especially in crowded environments, but the sound quality is a bit thin. Callers said we sometimes sounded as if we were talking inside a tin can. We also encountered the occasional crackle and static. On our end, callers sounded loud and clear.

The Griffin SmartTalk Bluetooth headset has a battery life of 4 hours talk time and 4.6 days standby time. Other features of the SmartTalk include the typical answering, rejecting, and ending a call, a low-battery status indicator, support for call waiting and voice dialing where available, call mute, last-number redial, and the ability to transfer calls from the phone to the headset and vice versa.