Plantronics Explorer 360 Bluetooth Headset with car charger review

Description and specifications

If you ask most people what they want in a bluetooth headset you’ll most definitely hear things like reliability, sound quality in noisy environments, easy to reach buttons, good battery life and affordable price. It’s no hard science but a lot of products don’t offer all the things listed above because they focus on design, fancy buttons and strange mounting systems. Plantronics managed to take into consideration all those factors and produced the Explorer 360, a cheap and comfortable to use Bluetooth headset that’s even delivered with a car charger, necessary for people that use to talk a lot while traveling by car.

The 360 in the naming scheme comes I guess from the fact that you can use Plantronics Explorer 360 pretty much everywhere, every time (all day long because of the 8 hours rated talk time) and in any noise conditions. Plus it’s simple to operate thanks to the one big button used for answer/reject and redial. Of course this is not the only buttons as there are two more on the lower side that control volume during conversations.

Plantronics Explorer 360 has a simple design

The mounting system is a classic over the ear loop that can be adjusted also vertically. You really must be off the chart not to be able to mount Plantronics Explorer 360 comfortably. And comfort doesn’t mean just easy to wear but also easy to use: when turned on for the first time the headsets enters pairing mode for 10 minutes giving you plenty of time to pair it with your mobile headset. This feature is called QuickPair and is accessible later. A LED indicator flashing red and/or blue colors will indicate your current headset status.

Now frankly there are also issues with the Plantronics Explorer 360, the worst being highest volume, which is not great when there’s plenty of chatter around you. You should take into consideration that this is something very subjective, as many users reported they’ve successfully used Plantronics Explorer 360 in gaming scenarios, for chatting and listening to music, so it all depends on your expectations, but I tell you, for just 35$ it’s a steal compared to other expensive Bluetooth headsets (think over 50$). And it looks good too, with its slate blue metallic color.

Package contents and schematics

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