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iPhone-compatible Bluetooth wireless headset.

Unlike all of the other iPhone-compatible Bluetooth wireless headsets we’ve tested, Sennheiser’s approach with the BW900 is intended to be holistic: this is a headset that’s supposed to be used with your mobile phone, and also with a land line.

If the latter part doesn’t make sense at first, here’s the concept: this headset comes with a charging cradle and power supply that you are supposed to hook up to a phone line, then use to answer incoming land calls. It also pairs with your iPhone (or other cell phone) to answer incoming mobile calls.

The BW900 includes a rechargeable battery, but unlike most competitors, the battery’s actually user-removable. Why? For business applications.

Taking advantage of the charging cradle’s potential, Sennheiser includes both a place to dock BW900 and a charging bay for a second battery, touting the device’s ability to maintain a call in progress—say, a protracted conference call or legal negotiation you don’t want to hang up on—while the battery’s being swapped.

Since the BW900’s battery runs for 4-5 hours of talk time depending on your distance from the cradle, you probably won’t need this feature unless you start a call with a partially discharged battery, but it’s an option.

One battery is included, along with a dummy piece of plastic that fills the battery bay hole when not in use.

Sennheiser BW900 Wireless Headset

There are some other major changes to what we’ve come to understand as the “standard Bluetooth headset mold.” Sennheiser, for instance, makes no compromises on size in order to achieve unusually impressive audio quality: the microphone extends via gooseneck-style memory wire all the way down to your mouth, where it’s either exposed or covered by a foam windscreen, and the slightly rubber-covered ear speaker (with three sizes of covers) pivots to match the shape of your ear.

It actually feels good on your ear. You wouldn’t expect that from the size, but it’s not heavy or hard to put on. The ear speaker slides outwards to let you slip BW900 on, then inwards to rest close enough to your ear canal to let you hear your callers without a problem. Sennheiser’s covers don’t use a lot of rubber or special padding, but they don’t have to, as this is more like having a small, good speaker right next to your ear than trying to squeeze something inside.

As surprising as it was to us by comparison with other, more isolating headsets we’ve tested, we liked the sound and the fit.

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