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Bluetooth Headset Roundup
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HowardChui.com has 5 nifty Bluetooth cellphone headsets reviewed. Looks like we're moving towards the StarTrek Comm unit (check out the size of the Nextlink Bluespoon Digital headset!)"
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I don't remember Kirk having his Phaser set to 'Outdoors' or 'Silent'
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Price of new mobile phone: $400
Price of bluetooth headset: $60
The look on that chick's face as she sees you talking to yourself with what looks like a cybernetic implant in your ear: Priceless
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
The Bluespoon is US $350. Ouch!
For another review.
If you want to talk hands free when you're out and about on you mobile and you don't have the cash to spend on Bluetooth headsets, these things are ideal
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
These devices will not do much to lessen the distraction drivers have when talking on their mobiles.
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The issue is the immediacy of the mobile phone conversation. It diverts the attention that a driver needs to be placing elsewhere.
http://cartalk.cars.com/About/Drive-Now/scienti
Studies have shown that there is negligible difference in the increased accident probability for users of these devices as opposed to hand-helds.
If you need to take a call on your commute, do us all a favor and pull over!
As an aside, I find that HowardChui.com is a very informative resource for all sorts of cell-phone tech. Definately worth adding to your bookmark list!
(PS. If someone wants to buy me the Bluespoon, I'd be much obliged...)
Bluetooth: erasing the descernable difference between people with really nice cellphones and those with advanced delusional schizophrenia.
Is that person mubling behind you on the train really an important businessman, or does he just think he is? Worse, is that CIA agent who just dialled your number real, or is he just one of the voices? With bluetooth(tm) there's essentially no way to know!
Next thing you'll be thinking you're living in some kind of futuristic hi-tech paradise where people communicate with lightning-powered machines. Yeah right - you're really still back at the pigfarm on Jutland and it's still 1282. Get used to it.
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I saw this article today and found it very interesting. For all the screaming about the dangers of driving while using cell phones (obviously there are dangers), the AAA study found cell phones to be much lower on the list of problems than one might expect. Far more problems were cause by some very mundane things that I am sure we are all guilty of at some time or another. Notice the statistics at the bottom of the article.
... is a bluetooth headset that doesn't make me look silly.
this is not possible with current technology. the way bluetooth works is by creating a localized field of ionized nerd particles, that is then used as the carrier medium for bluetooth signaling. nerd particles are generated by things such as pda's, usb data sticks, certain ringtones, linux, and watches with calculators in them, and they naturally dissipate into the atmosphere and decay into harmless forms such as boba pearls. however, bluetooth acts as a concentrator, keeping the nerd particles from collapsing and creating a short range distortion field, making thing within it seem extremely nerdy. engineers are still working on resolving this issue, although an interim solution is to have a really hot girlfriend.
Huh? The prices are right underneath the purty pictures.
Bluetake BT400 GII - $70
Jabra BT200 v1 - $70
Nextlink Bluespoon Digital - $350
Nokia HDW-2 - $100
Sony Ericsson HBH-60 - $100
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Let's see... the lowest cost unit in the roundup is $70, and it's replacing:
:-)
- 3 feet of wire,
- an earphone, and
- a microphone,
which is available at my local dollar store. Yes, for one dollar (cash American) I can get the same wired earbud/microphone that came with my Motorola phone (free), except without the logo.
WiFi at least keeps people from having to ruin a perfectly good weekend or two, drilling holes in walls and fishing cables. But Bluetooth???
I've never understood why someone would want to replace a high security, exquisitely simple, low cost device with a complex, battery consuming, expensive, insecure device. It's not like you have the option of running SSH or IPSEC over Bluetooth, even if you wanted to.
Besides, earphones are cool! You wear them with sunglasses and you look like a narc.
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