Comments on: Samsung SBH-650 Stereo Bluetooth Headset Review

By: Andy Simpson

Andy Simpson — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:25:55 +0000

I have this sometimes too, check the volume levels on the pc and in itunes. If you double click the volume icon by the clock you should get volume properties to open up.
have a play with the slider and see if that helps. yuo can also adjust the volume on the headset too.

By: Mrigank

Mrigank — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:22:48 +0000

i have been able to connect the headset withmy phone and laptop, but the sound output level through i tunes is low, as in ,it is much louder when i connect a wired headphone.does anyone know whatthe reason could be?

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:41:32 +0000

Glad to hear it’s all working. 99%of the time it’s the drivers that cause the issue on this, so it might be that they just didn’t install properly last time!

Enjoy your new headphones

By: usch

usch — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:25:19 +0000

It works!
Finally after I don’t know how many hours trying to solve this riddle I got it to work. After installing the latest Widcomm drivers it suddenly worked. Don’t know what I did differently because I installed these drivers before without success…
Thanks for your reply, Andy!
I’m glad that I don’t have to read more blogs now!

And I want to mention that the quality of this headset is superb and mobilefun’s service is outstanding.

A happy customer

By: Andy Simpson

Andy Simpson — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:56:44 +0000

I’m pretty sure that this is down to vista not having the correct drivers installed. If you’ve updated the drivers for your bluetooth adapter and still having this problem then I’m not sure what to suggest.

These posts might give you a few pointers?
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2008/06/how-to-use-your-bluetooth-headset-with-skype/
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2009/06/using-a-bluetooth-headset-with-your-pc/

By: usch

usch — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:32:24 +0000

I’ve had this headset now for 3 days and sound quality is absolutely fantastic. I had no problems at all to connect it with my desire.
BUT, I can’t connect my headset with my acer aspire one netbook.
I’ve read forums and blogs for hours, downloaded drivers, installed and uninstalled in all possible variations and still cant connect to my netbook.
I’m running Vistas and there seems to be a big problem with bluetooth headsets out there but nobody seems to have an answer.
I would like to use my headset for skype but I have no idea what else to try.
My headset tries to connect but vistas wants a passkey and with or without passkey I always get the message wrong parameter…HELP please!

By: Sudhir

Sudhir — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:45:15 +0000

It really rocks….sound quality is superb..only draw back is it cant fwd or rewind files other than mp3. So if u r playin files other than mp3, next n reverse buttons doesnt works

By: sam

sam — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:39:45 +0000

Just to clarify my previous post, even though the music does pause when a call comes in, it rings in thr phone and not on the headset, and I have to manually press the phone button the on the sbh-650 and also answer the call on the phone – this way hands-free gets activated and I can proceed with the call via the bluetooth headset.

in short – and after couple days using it, great confusion low usability…. poor documentaion.

I’m hoping to retract myself…

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:46:27 +0000

Hi Sam,

how you’re having to connect and disconnect doesn’t sound right to me – the whole point of it being a multi connect device is that you don’t have to do that!

The user manual is available from the samsung USA site: http://ars.samsung.com/customer/DownloadAnsTempl?AT_ID=145775&SEQ_NO=1

it might be that it’s too new for the UK site.

Their user guide lists this as the set up for 2 devices:

You can connect your headset to the phone and another
Bluetooth device that plays music files at the same time.
1 Pair the headset with a phone. See page 7.
2 If successful, turn the headset off.
3 Slide the power switch with pressing and holding [ ]
to turn the headset on. The indicator light turns on blue
after flashing blue, red, and purple twice.
4 Search for and connect with the device you want according
to the device user’s guide.
5 Press [ ] to connect with the paired phone.
6 When the phone and the device are successfully connected
with the headset, you can make or answer a call while you
are listening to music.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:40:32 +0000

ah and BTW ? as far as I could see, there is no support page for the SBH-650 in Samsung’s website…