While Bluetooth headsets vary widely in design and sound quality, many of them offer the same old set of features: call answer, call reject, voice dialing, and the typical theoretical range of 33 feet. Callpod wants to go farther with the Dragon, literally, with a claimed extended range of up to 328 feet. You also get dual-mic noise canceling, two-way headset-to-headset communication mode, and a generous array of included accessories.
The Dragon is available in three colors—black chrome, carbon fiber, and titanium silver (like my test unit). The package includes the headset, an AC/DC wall adapter, a car charger, a USB charging cable, and a five-pin mini USB adapter. With all that gear, you’ll never be far from a full charge, which takes only 2 hours. There’s also a zippered carrying pouch and an extra, larger ear loop, which I needed; in fact, for me, both of the ear loops felt tight. The larger one felt okay once I managed to put the headset on, a task that never got any easier, even after numerous attempts. The upside was that between the ear loop and the in-ear, rubber design of the earpiece, I could walk, run, or shake my head without its budging even slightly.
Users who also make Skype calls will particularly appreciate the Dragon’s ability—shared with the Plantronics Voyager 520—to connect to two separate devices simultaneously (say, a mobile phone and a PC). It has enough memory, in fact, for eight total connections. I had no problem pairing the Dragon with a BlackBerry 8130. But I had less luck with a Motorola Q; on every attempt except one I experienced a connection error, even with the nearby BlackBerry 8130 powered off to prevent conflicts.
Worse, the headset’s voice quality wasn’t great. Voices sounded muffled, mechanical, and distant on my side. That’s with the earpiece inserted firmly in my ear, and both the Dragon and the BlackBerry 8130 turned up to maximum volume. Callers thought that my voice’s timbre was natural enough, but one person noticed a “speakerphone” effect when I spoke.

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