GPS Screens Seem too Small?

I watched a friend of mine fumbling with his phone menus trying to get his BlueTooth speakerphone system to join with his phone. Many people will goof with this once they are underway.

I have one headset for my phone, so when I push the button on it, the phone has no choice of what to connect with. Some people (including my friend) have multiple headsets/speaker systems (multiple cars plus headsets, etc.). In this case, one must select the device on a phone menu buried deep within its setup functions.

I've seen the same thing. I also have the problem. One of customers sells Bluetooth headsets (Cheap plug:

My favorite stupidity, that has almost caused me to lose control is not a problem with the headset. It's the phone. If I enable Bluetooth in the phone, it expects ONLY the Bluegoof headset to be used. If I try to answer the phone using just the phone, all the audio goes to the headset and nothing gets heard at the phone. That would normally not be a problem as I don't plan to answer calls at the phone while in a moving vehicle. However, the brilliant designers of several phones (including my xv-6700) have decided that once you try to answer a call using the phone, you must obviously also want to disable Bluegoof. So, the next call comes in, I'm moving, I try to answer with the headset, and NOTHING happens. I then fumble for the phone, try to turn on Bluegoof, fumble some more, probably lose the call, and hopefully don't hit anything in the process.

Yep. Another brilliant human factors decision. You can pair with up to 4 or 5 devices, depending on model, but there's no efficient or even functional way to switch pairing. I once tried to answer an incoming phone call, and ended up talking to the Bluegoof adapter in my laptop (which was on the seat running a mapping program). The same problem is a common complain to those that use Bluegoof headsets at their desks to talk to office desk phones. They frequently find themselves talking to their cell phones, or the reverse.

Well, of course. Leave out the ability to switch pairing targets and you sell more headsets, one for each device. (It's a conspiracy).

Incidentally, when I managed to corner a Plantronics manager and loudly unload my frustrations upon him, (I was buying the lunch so that's acceptable), he mumbled something about nobody mentioning that this might be a problem. Sigh.

Mini-rant: I hate push button volume controls, that are not able to indicate the present volume setting. When I pickup a headset, it can be either full blast, dead silent, or anywhere in between, but I would never notice.

Incidentally, I'm ready to give up on corded and cordless headsets. I'm planning to wire an interface box between my cell phone and a

Build and sell them. There is a market, admittedly small, but a lot of Gov't agencies and NGO service organizations that would like that.