Do you know what one of the many joys of being on a motorcycle is for me? Getting away from the 24/7 contact culture we now have. I switch my mobile off ( I know OFF!!!!!) and stick it in my pocket and then ride for as many hours as I like. Last thing I want when carving through some lovely twisties is a call from someone trying to reclaim my misold PPI , change my tarriff, the boss wanting to run some ideas by me " I know its Saturday but...." Clever technology but NO!!!!

@ihateorange
I would use it to hear the GPS on my phone and as an intercom but yeah I'd probably be better off not knowing when I have a new text.

@ihateorange: I believe that's what the "do not disturb" feature on your iphone (I'm assuming android and windoze have similar functions). You turn it on, define emergency contact conditions and away you go. Your bluetooth intercom and your music player functionality without the boss chiming in.

We have three of these things. They are, at best, disappointing for the money. In fact, I've returned them from whence they came, after a polite but wholly inconclusive interchange with the manufacturer's help-desk: to be able to upgrade (ie, 'fix') these units via a USB cable, you have to disable ALL other Bluetooth devices within range. This meant finding a cabled key-board and mouse... after several attempts, with various cables and on several days - the Device Manager still couldn't 'see' our Senas. What was I trying to find a workable solution for? 1. Disappointing range: the advertised 900m is a complete fiction: at anything over 500m, speech is unintelligible noise; 2. Constant interference, even when within touching distance; this is tiring past about 20 minutes and potentially distracting - and therefore dangerous, even for highly experienced riders; in an attempt to eliminte possible causes, we wandered around a field, away from any metallic objects to see if something on our bikes was causing it. The issue remained. 3. An ear-shatteringly loud CLICK when a third party 'drops in' to join an existing conversation; Loud enough to cause the two existing participants to shake their heads violently - again, distracting and dangerous.
While phones and iPods seamlessly pair with the Senas, I never did get any of my GPS units (3 different ones) to pair with it - either directly or via an add-on dongle - but that's probably not a Sena-issue - but it was a disappointment.
The Sena is, however, very good when used with a mobile phone - some callers were utterly oblivious to the fact that I was on my bike. Whther this is down to the Sena's good design or merely the extent to which my fat head fills my helmet is unknown.
For 30-something years, my wife and I have communicated bike-to-bike with hand-signals: if this is the best the electronic world can offer, we're better off with hand-signals; we might drop by in another 30 years and see if things have improved any.

@ihateorange - why is the functionality limited to just cell phone calls? I love riding in groups and have a few friends I'd love to be able to chat with without having to stop every turn or every few miles to ask where we're heading next. I ride frequently with someone else and we're always yelling at the stop light. This way we'd be able to chat without worrying about getting lost or having to stop at a gas station every time we wanted to change directions.
i think the bluetooth pairing is really just a bonus if I wanted to make phone calls or listen to my music or like someone else mentioned, pair for GPS. That's actually a great idea.

I switched to a Sena after 10 years with a hard wired Autocom. I just got sick of replacing the cables on the Autocom at $40 a pop. They may be alright for normal use, but we ride 50K a year and stuff wears out. The BIG problem with us for the Sena is that the Garmin GPS can only be linked to one of the sets at a time. This means that the co-pilot and navigator can't hear the directions. This is not a good thing. The rest of the capability is fine, but for its main function of letting us chat while we ride, it is no better than our old wired system. Regards, Mike

I recently bought two SMH10 headsets, and an SM10 wireless dual stereo receiver/transmitter, and they're brilliant! Teamelephant: the SM10 (or the SR10) used in conjunction with your headsets is what you need. Plug the Garmin into it, and it offers dual, prioritised transmission to both headsets. The SM10 is a very small and water-resistant unit, with inputs for two wired devies plus bluetooth ones. You could for instance be using your SMH10 to talk to one another, while listening to the same music source, and whenever a direction comes in from the Garmin the music volume will be reduced so you can both hear it.

All,
I log my Sena system. It is not perfect, but I love hearing music when I ride and my job--at times--demands that I can be contacted whenever necessary. This makes the Sena ideal for me.
Sound quality. No a great quality sound in my opinion. It is a good quality. I wear ear plugs and I can still hear the music fine.
Phone calls are a breeze. Vey easy. Do I like getting them, no; however, as stated it is part of my job that I can be contacted whenever and wherever.
As far as style...not so much, but I don't care. I works and works easily.
I can understand previous comments. I have heard about some systems not working correctly. I got lucky. however, luck is a four letter word spelled work. I did my research. Not plugging here, but Revzilla.com will take the system back if it does not work. Too easy.
All in all. I strongly recommend. I love it!!

Hate, hate, hate! Absolutely hate our new SENA headsets. Part of our frustration may be due to user error, but the worst is the wind noise when used with our open face helmets. The wind noise is so loud that we can only use the headsets for everything EXCEPT intercom. We will go back to the wired headsets for our Goldwing. Hate, hate, hate!

What about the Sena SMH10R is that an improvement?