Call quality is very good. Made a phone call to another rider who was a few kms ahead of me, both of us riding at around 100kmph. Clarity was impressive.
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Purchased a Bluarmor C30 recently. It's an overkill for my use case, which is:
- I don't listen to music while riding. I just need the call quality to be good.
- I wear EarPeace earplugs to cut down windnoise. So any kind of in ear bluetooth buds are not an option.
- Primary use case is to receive calls. And to make outgoing calls if needed.
- I don't ride with pillion so bluetooh intercom is not of much use.
- Mesh is good to have but I don't really need this either.
After spending some time browsing the net and talking to a few riders who use some cheaper versions of intercoms I came to the conclusion that I should be spending at least about 6k for a decent unit. If I'm spending 6k for something very basic, I might as well spend 11k for the C30 that has got so rave reviews all over. That's how I decided to buy the C30. Used it on a couple of test rides within city and one outstation ride. Some observations:
- Call quality is very good. Made a phone call to another rider who was a few kms ahead of me, both of us riding at around 100kmph. Clarity was impressive.
- Auto answer feature for incoming calls is very useful. When a call comes in you hear a short beep to indicate a call is coming and then it picks up the call automatically. There are a couple of options available, either press the button to pick the call, or auto pick the calls only if the caller is in your contact, or all calls etc.
- Connecting to mesh is an easy process. On highways the range is usually between 500 to 600 meters. Mesh intercom works well when the distance between riders is less. As the distance increases the voice becomes choppy and finally gets disconnected. When the riders are back within the range it automatically connects to mesh.
- Depending on the type of gloves you wear, operating the buttons will be either manageable or very difficult. I wear ViaTerra holeshot gloves and it's difficult to feel the buttons. I think it can be managed with lots of practice.
- Had some difficulty with my phone choosing C30 as the default device while auto answering the call. Suspected my Honor watch causing the problems so I unpaired it. Looks OK now but needs more testing.
- Can store 5 numbers in speed dial. To call any of these you will need to press the buttons. There is voice assistance but getting it to work when the phone is locked and placed in the pocket, seems a difficult task. Plus, it can cause lot of issues if the assistant misunderstands your command. Had some unexpected result in one instance and I disabled voice assistant on my phone immediately.
- Battery backup seems more than sufficient for my use case. On a 5 hour ride with minimum phone calls and mesh connectivity it went down from 100% to just 80%.
Need to use it on more rides where a few more riders have the C30 to get better understanding of its capabilities and limitations. Just made my rides a bit more interesting.
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