In fact this is my 2nd set of the headphones as the first one had the same problem, after a period of use (even though I do clean it, most of the times..) the buttons fail to work.

You see the buttons that connect to the ear speakers, are cleverly designed to allow you to forward/rewind tracks, pause/play, increase/decrease volume and even answer or hang up calls without going to your ipod/zen/mobile or any bluetooth music device.

These buttons are just a quick touch so you never have to take out your music device, in my case I use my Nokia e51 to play back music. This is very useful when you’re running and you don’t have to fumble with cables OR the music device.

However, after about 6-8 months… the bottom row of buttons stop responding totally. Usually you will hear a click sound, to know the function is activated, but no more. So I lost the control to Backtrack, and decreasing the volume. I get around this by having a playlist and doing the volume control on my e51.

Today I did my 10km run and, for some unknown reason (could be the pairing) the music just keeps going off after a while. While the headset is fully charged, so I had to turn off and on the headset so that the music will play for again…. for a while

And even worse, could be a button fault.. sometimes there’s a constant beeping that interrupts the music…Sigh.

I thought of getting a replacement the new Motorola S9-HD, which is the supposedly improved version of the first generation S9.. but from what I read from the online reviews, even though the music quality has improved a lot… the sweat problem has not been solved.

Hey Moto, if you happen to read this, the S9 is a great product with real good design and much thought put into it… But please solve the sweat problem!

Guess, I’ll be looking for another pair of ear phones to run with soon. Need to train for my 21km…

Ok, I have a number of tech toys to play with but let me start with what I use almost everyday.

On the left a picture of all of the stuff I carry. Let’s dive into it!

1. Sony MDR-KX70 Earphones – these are retractable so I don’t have to worry about messy wires!

2. Apple’s 2G Ipod Nano 4gb – I know this is kinda outdated now but it still stores my music and like the slim size of it. : )

3. Nokia e51 Business Phone – a phone that has almost everything I need, Bluetooth stereo music ad2p, wifi, 3.5G download speeds, Exchange support, good web browser built-in. Love the keys and it’s a nice slim size!! I only wish the camera is better than the current 2.0 mega pixel.

4. Canon Ixus 860IS – This camera takes great pictures! I love the compact size and now with CHDK, an open source firmware, you can hack more features out of it! Colours are really nice too!

5. Nokia n810 Internet Tablet – Been searching for a good Palm device replacement and this comes to matching almost all that I need. With the 800×480 screen, surfing is much better than on my mobile and it runs loads of programs, watch videos, listen to music/audio books, play games, take notes, read pdf/ebooks… and almost everything available from the internet of course!
With Access releasing a Palm emulator (beta 2) for the n810, now I can port all my Palm programs over! Yay!