When Should a Bluetooth Phone Answer at the Headset?

Dieter Bohn of TreoCentral has posted a brilliant comment on what's missing from today's bluetooth headset configurations:

"a thought has occurred to me lately that I can't get out of my head. I've found myself scouring my apartment for my bluetooth headset when I answer a call - the Treo transfers the call to the headset whenever it's in range. What I realized is that when I answer the call by hitting the button on the phone, I want to talk on the darn phone!

Here's what I propose: Instead of coming up with an entirely new short-range wireless standard, let's keep improving the one we already have. Make it so that the phone only transfers the call to the headset when you hit the answer button on the headset. When you hit the answer button on the phone, the call stays on the phone."

Makes sense. Just the other day, I watched a friend of mine answer his Treo 650 using the phone while his Bluetooth headset was tucked into his jacket. He scrambled for the headset while the caller wondered where he was. Simply taking the call on the phone in his hand would have been more elegant.

Simply put, if the phone answers the phone and the headset answers the headset, problem solved.

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