Comments on: Motorola T305 Bluetooth Portable Hands-Free Speaker

By: Osric

Osric — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:30:39 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
Good voice quality, battery life
People hear me very well. Sometimes freeway driving with windows up makes it hard to hear call being made voices coming through the speaker, but for the most part, it’s good…

By: Vice

Vice — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:40:16 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
very impressed
I actually bought this as a gift for a friend and he just loves it. He thinks this is the best thing out there.

By: Acton

Acton — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:04:05 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty darn good for the money
I used this product with my Nokia 2865i phone and it worked well.
Pros: Sound is clear on my end and seems to be fine for the calls on the other end as well.

By: Andie

Andie — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:01:58 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Hands Free Value
If you need a hands free speakerphone without all the other gadgetry this is the one. Set up is a snap. Just follow the instructions that came with your phone.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:05:56 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Bluetooth car speaker
This Motorola Bluetooth speaker is just what I needed for a long car trip. It is working perfectly and the price was just right.

By: Zagiri

Zagiri — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:39:37 +0000

As much as I wanted to like the Motorola T305, in the end couldn’t live with its shortcomings. First of all, the good news: it actually works well enough and the sound is highly legible and the volume is very good. It paired easily with my LG enV. The phone’s voice prompts were scratchy and hard to understand, but they’re like that on speakerphone, so it’s not the T305’s fault. Once you make a connection, the other party sounds fine. And they can hear you fine, too. But that’s where the party ends. Your first problem will be charging your new toy. Guess what? It can only be charged in your car (no a. c. adapter is included. ) It needs two hours for a full charge. My car shuts off power to my car’s power adapter (aka cigarette lighter) when I turn off the car, so even if I were inclined to leave it plugged in for two hours, I would need to leave the car turned to “accessory on” to charge it — and that could be a battery killer. You can buy an a. c. to 12 volt adapter at Radio Shack, but you shouldn’t have to. And the manual warns you not to charge it while it’s on your visor, so it becomes less functional while you drive around for two hours charging it? Huh? It will use a Motorola a. c. adapter if you have one for your Razr, etc. , but otherwise, you’ll have my problem. The next engineering failure is the light. You have no way to tell if it’s turned on during the day, because the shiny plastic cover over the light reflects so much ambient light you can’t see it. And it’s important to see it, because if it’s flashing it’s paired with your phone and if it’s steady, it’s not paired and thus non-functional. It’s also important because if you leave your car for 30 minutes, the T305 shuts off automatically. There will be nothing to indicate it’s off when you get back after, perhaps, 31 minutes, since the light can’t be seen during the day anyway. Since the T305 claims 200 hours standby time (or on another part of their Web site 14 days — which is it?) I have no idea why the T305 should shut off after 30 minutes away from your phone. I first tried to see the light on a cloudy, rainy day and could barely detect it. On a sunny day, even though there was no direct light shining on it, I couldn’t see it without taking it off the visor and shading it with my hand. Try that in traffic! But the light’s problem doesn’t stop there. At night it’s highly visible, an annoying blue pulse, right above your line of sight. Totally unacceptable. My wife asked me to turn it off, and she was in the passenger seat. So, still trying to make this work, I figured I would just leave it turned off all the time until I heard the phone ring. Well, that’s a no-go also. The on-off switch is incredibly tiny and hard to find — it’s the same color as the case and is flush with the case and non-tactile. You are required to hold it down until the light comes on (which you can’t see anyway) and then it has to connect with your phone. By that time your call’s gone to voicemail or just gone, period. What really puzzles me is this is the second generation of this device Motorola produced. What must the first have been like? It may be that all of the issues I’ve described are unimportant to you in light of the fact the T305 actually sounds rather good. For that I give it a couple of stars. But the T305 is like an attractive spouse with a million bad habits. My marriage to the T305 quickly ended in divorce.

By: Ulf

Ulf — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:37:52 +0000

Pros: Good sound quality for each side of the conversation. Good battery life, easy recharging, simple to use. Basically perfect except for my cons. . Cons: Huge blinking blue light is annoying at night and invisible during the day. Sometimes it take a second for it to answer a call when you click the answer button. I guess the solution for that is probably to wait a few seconds after answering before saying “hello”. This flaw also demonstrates itself when using VZ Navigator, because it cuts off the first word of driving instructions. This flaw might be from my MOTOKRZR phone and not from the T305, but I don’t have any way to know which end causes it. Another reviewer stated that the “on/off” button is too small. When I first read that, I didn’t know why it matters. I now know. At least with a MOTOKRZR (and I’d assume other phones), the speaker on your phone will be inactive when it is connected via Bluetooth to your T305. With 150 feet of range, it actually stays connected if you are 150 feet from your car. Therefore you have to turn it off every time you get out of the car, or else you won’t be able to hear calls you receive on your phone. It isn’t a huge deal, and something you can get used to, but Motorola should have either made the on/off button more accessible or cut the Bluetooth range down to about 15 feet. Overall the best handsfree solution for talking in the car. The light thing is my biggest annoyance. I would buy again. (I updated this post after about a month of use)

By: Tablita

Tablita — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:18:50 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
I love it
The blue light is not an issue to me. I called all of my friends and family and asked them how it sounded on there end.

By: Dustine

Dustine — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:46:25 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
The T305 is an elegant solution
The Motorola T305 is an elegant solution to the problem of how to go totally hands-free and not TOTALLY irritate my wife with complicated instructions.

By: Viviano

Viviano — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:43:12 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
best one so far
I bought this hands free speaker to replace a BlueAnt unit I bought about four months ago. The BlueAnt, over $50, had a terrible echo for the person I was talking to.