Jawbone Bluetooth Headset

The Jawbone arrived at our offices last week and I was excited to try out this product that Apple is selling as their stores as the perfect compliment to the iPhone. It�s almost as if you have an iPhone and don�t have a Jawbone in your ear then you might as well be using a Nokia as your phone because you are not in the club. After using this headset for two weeks I�m sold. The headset has some features that I�ve never seen in a headset before with top notch construction and only a few minor quirks.

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This is definitely not a Bluetooth headset that a person would get with the phone that AT&T; gives them for free with a two-year contract. At a price of $129 MSRP, some people will laugh at its price but these are the same people that laughed at a $499 dollar price tag for Apple�s iPhone. If you have the budget and always have the plantronics Bluetooth headset on your ear and looking for an upgrade, read on and we�ll have you convinced.

The Jawbone�s construction is extremely well put done. The body is a plastic one with an aluminum external housing. The earpiece is metal with a rubber covering. The earpiece is also rubber and fits snug in your ear. I�ve dropped the unit, put it in my pocket and tossed it around and nothing has broken off yet and the device works great. I love that there are no visual buttons. To answer or end a call, you press the aluminum and the button is under that. There is a small button that sticks out of the jawbone that pushes in when you�re wearing it. This tells the headset if you�re wearing it or not. I�ve tested this and when I take the headset off and my iPhone rings, I answer and it defaults to the iPhone speaker as the audio source. Putting the Jawbone back on and answering puts the sound through my headset. It�s great because you might have the Jawbone on and paired but it�s not on your ear and you have to grab a call fast.

The iPhone�s speaker and microphone are not great and this has made the Jawbone even better in my opinion. iPhone�s speaker is not very loud and the mic picks up a lot of background noise. I was amazed at how loud the Jawbone is. It really puts the person�s voice into your head and this is because it is just louder and the rubber earpiece helps to cancel out noise since it�s directly inside of your ear. Jawbone also offers noise cancellation technology, which I tested at various locations. I�ve used the Jawbone in my car, at work, at the gym and I even tested it at the movies (so sue me) and at a minor league baseball game. I was extremely amazed when I was talking with a colleague while fans were cheering and the announcer was talking over the loudspeaker we were still able to carry a conversation. When I stopped talking, she could hear the game but while I was talking it was like we were in the same room in complete silence. The Jawbone speaker also did a great job of pumping the voice into my ear.

The Jawbone is extremely comfortable as well. It comes with two pairs of earpieces, which means you get a small and large earpiece and one for each ear. The rubber covered metal earpiece I can wear all day. I went for a jog, leaned over to pickup items and was even crawling in an attic and didn�t have any issues with the piece coming off. Jawbone also includes different molds that go in your ear so you can get the perfect fit. This is not sound isolating or noise canceling but the fit is tight enough to hear the conversation in a noise area. I think they could include a few more options for inner ear pieces but the included sets offer good enough sizing and comfort for most people. Plantronics and other companies have gotten away with one-size fits all for years so I don�t expect the Jawbone to include an ear molding set for their low $129 price range.

I used the Jawbone for five days without charging it. It was turned on from 7AM to 10PM for those five days and had regular use but not heavy phone time. The headset charges over USB when you plugin a proprietary adapter that plugs into any powered USB port and the USB cable also plugs into an included adapter that allows you to use a standard wall outlet while traveling.

Overall this headset gets a 5 out of 5 on my scale. You can use the headset on both ears and it works with different ear sizes. The construction is great, battery life is phenomenal and it just works well. I would like to see the price of the unit at $99 but I don�t feel like $129 is too much to pay for this quality. If you own a headset now and are thinking of the iPhone, buy this with your new phone because the black model matches perfectly to the iPhone. Pairing was simple and Jawbone has great support if you have any technical issues with your unit.

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I was extremely amazed when I was talking with a colleague while fans were cheering and the announcer was talking over the loudspeaker we were still able to carry a conversation.

From everything I have already read, I am sold on the jawbone and dont mind paying the price, but I need to know if it is compatible with the Samsung SCH-R 500 phone. I have read it is compatible with any bluetooth, but then I read about the 1.1, 1.2, and 2.0 and then I am not sure. Can anyone clarify this for me?

If this really works as advertised, the Jawbone is going to give me the first good reason to buy a Bluetooth headset.

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