Bluetooth Headset, V5.0 Ultralight Wireless Headphone Cell Phone Earpiece with Mic Headsetcase,Volume Control, Handsfree Earbud,Compatible with Android/iPhone/Smartphones/Laptop

Great at first but a bit disappointing I have owned at least 15 different bluetooth wireless earpieces, so I’m always looking for the one that best suits my needs. The Kendir has some very solid features, but it also has some serious issues that I may ultimately determine are deal-breakers. If you don’t extensively use dictation for text messages or email, you may find that the positives outweigh the negatives. Here’s my appraisal after having owned the Kendir for about 6 weeks.Things I like:1. Very small and unobtrusive.2. Easy to wear – I don’t even notice that I have it attached to my ear.3. Sound is very loud. This is very important to me. I wish my other wireless earbuds were as loud.4. Battery life is as advertised. The Kendir lasts for quite a few hours before the “battery low” is heard. I only have to charge it every two or three days depending upon usage.Things I’m not as pleased with:1. Serious dictation issues: When dictating on my iPhone 8 (iOS 13.3.1), I am not able to dictate much more than a sentence. Once I end a sentence with a period, though the audio dialogue box remain open and the sound waves continue to be expressed in the dialogue box, it stops dictating. I have done this countless times so I’m now certain this is a design flaw. (At first I thought it was an iPhone software issue but ALL of my other bluetooth devices work dictate as expected.) If I choose not to use any punctuation at the sentence’s end, I am able to dictate longer content. As I mentioned, I have numerous other wireless bluetooth devices that allow for much longer dictation. In those devices, though there is a limit to the length of the content you can dictate (controlled by the the iPhone’s iOS), when the dictation mode stops, the dialogue box also closes. In the Kendir device I have to manually tap to close the dialogue box once it stops dictating into text, and then have to open it again multiple times if a text message is longer than a sentence or two. This is terribly annoying. I end up completely turning off my Kendir if I want to dictate because it’s not worth the hassle. Since I use the dictation feature a great deal, this issue may override all of the positives.2. Loss of Bluetooth connectivity: With my iPhone in my hand or in my pocket, I often get verbal notifications that the Kendir has “disconnected” and then almost immediately it will say “connected”. This just happened as I was typing this review. Why it loses sync when the iPhone is so close is a mystery. Sometimes this will happen 5 or 6 times in the course of a few minutes and then it might be quite a few hours until this happens again.I really want to like this Kendir since the the positives are so strong, but ultimately I may discontinue usage if dictation doesn’t improve and if it doesn’t stop constantly losing sync with my iPhone. Great potential, especially for such an incredibly low price-tag, but I’m still hoping my experience improves.If anyone has experience with the dictation issues, please let me know. Especially if there’s a solution. Thanks!Addendum after a few months of usage [5-12-2020]:The dictation issue has made this headset almost unusable. I can only dictate a sentence at the time. Once I pause for a second or two or I end a sentence with a period, though I resume talking (the iPhone screen wave representation appears to be tracking my voice) it does not dictate anything. And that happens even when I am in the car using the car stereo system (when the Kendir is still on). Initially, I thought perhaps it may have been an iOS issue but after a few more iterations of the iOS (currently 13.4.1), there has been no change. This is the ONLY Bluetooth device I own (and I have 8-10 others) that has dictation issues.Also, too often I get a disconnected and reconnected voice message when I am well within range (a foot or two) of my iPhone. Sometimes I will get this message 3 or 4 times within a span of a couple of minutes. This is incredibly annoying.I still don’t understand why more people aren’t experiencing these issues and why the ratings remain high. I am going to downgrade to 3 stars. The only reason for not lowering it to 2 stars is because of the obvious positive attributes I noted in my first review.So,