[gambiting]

If you connect your bluetooth headphones to your phone, tablet and laptop, you're going to have a pretty bad time, as changing connected devices with no user interface is always a massive pain. Also, general issue with bluetooth headphones - you know that tiny microscopic battery in them? Yeah, that's going to die at some point, and then you need to buy a new pair.

[a254613e]

>If you connect your bluetooth headphones to your phone, tablet and laptop, you're going to have a pretty bad time

I don't know. I think it depends a lot on the devices you have.

I have Bose QC35 headphones, and use them every day with my work and personal macbook, and my iPhone.

The connections are completely seamless. Here's how it's usually for me:

I turn them on at home, they automatically connect to my iPhone and macbook. I usually play music (spotify) on my laptop, when I leave for work I just open spotify on my phone and select "listen on this phone" and they automatically switch audio input.

When I come into work the headphones automatically connect to my work laptop and I can continue playing spotify there. All of these connections take a second or two.

In case I get a call the audio input/output automatically changes to my phone and I can take the call, and switches back when I'm done.

Plus I get about 15-20 hours of music listening time with one charge. So charging them isn't a big deal either.

[gambiting]

It's great that hear that Bose has it sorted out, but it's usually not the case - all bluetooth headphones I tried so far can only stay connected to one device at the time, even if they can remember multiple pairings. So if I switch them on and both my phone and my laptop are nearby, it's a pure lottery which one is going to connect to them - and then I have to manually disable bluetooth on one device to make it connect to the other. It's just a massive pain in the ass to use.

[lorenzhs]

Sennheiser has this figured out, too. My PXC 550 stay connected to two devices at the same time. When the currently active one goes quiet, it'll switch to the other source if that's active.

Works fine with my UE Boom 2 bluetooth speaker as well.

Maybe the devices you've tried were older or cheap models?

[freeone3000]

The Sony MDR1000X2s can only stay paired to one device, and they're neither old nor cheap. (I was aware of this when I bought them, they noise cancel better than the QC35s for voice.)