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I have had 4 LG bluetooth headsets similar to this over the past 6 years. Although without their quirks, this one is inferior to those. Deviating from most of the current reviews, I primarily use my headset for podcasts not phone calls: this is geared toward that use. Pros: it works most of the time Cons: Battery Life: This headset has a much shorter battery life than all of my previous LG BT headsets. To save money, they redesigned to put all of the electronics in one side of the headset (vs. both sides in the older models), I believe this compromised battery life. FF/RR functions: I need to RR often as I miss something in the podcast (interrupted, distracted, etc.), and FF through commercials. Due to this redesign of putting all electronics in one side, they combined the Vol & FF/RR functions into one slider on the only side that now has the electronics: intead of R side slide being up and down volume and L side being FF/RR, L side slide holds everything. For Vol you push slide for a short time, RR is a long "hold" slide. This increases time to FF/RR and it results in many times you try to FF/RR but you just turn Vol up and down. FF/RR Backward: the controls are backward to the previous models and counter intuitive to usage: to FF you slide back, to RR you slide forward. All other models were the opposite (and intuitive). Why the change? Re-Pairing: I have rarely needed to repair my older models, this one seems to need re-pairing with existing devices often. Really enjoy the freedom of the LG BT headsets, but this redesign is absolutely off and I hope it won't be standard.