news.com.com — When Apple fans across the country flock to their neighborhood Apple Store to pick up their shiny new iPhone next Friday, they'll also have the opportunity to buy a Jawbone Bluetooth headset to go along with it.Designed by Yves Behar and decked out with military-grade noise-canceling technology, the Jawbone is certainly no slouch...
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mobilehavocJun 19, 2007
I have one with my BB Pearl and it works as advertised...Cingular/AT&T currently has an exclusive on selling it at their stores (compared to other carriers) so makes sense they would try and sell a fairly expensive BT headset by today's standards with a f**king expensive ass phone by today's standards. Chances are if you're blowing $600 on a phone, you can afford $130 on a BT headset.
neonelixirJun 19, 2007
I really wanted to get a Jawbone a few months ago so I could use it while driving with the windows down. However, I have Sprint and I guess the Jawbone is known to be less amazing with some CDMA phones. They mention it in the support section of the Jawbone site. Supposedly they plan to improve that.
tetfsuJun 19, 2007
They've been selling the Jawbone at the local Cingular/AT&T store here for a while (at least January). I've heard great things about them, but the one thing that I don't get is why you would get a non-stereo Bluetooth headset. The iPhone supports A2DP stereo BT.And just a note for anyone who wants to use their BT headset to listen to your tunes... it's not going to work, including the Jawbone. When I got my blackjack I went through a couple of different stereo BT headsets before I got my Motorola S9s. I even considered a Jawbone and listening to music mono, but the store clerk also had the same idea and was unsuccessful in getting the music to play on any non-stereo BT headset. I didn't believe him, so we tried it out on a number of models in the store. Notta.... so the moral of the story is to get a good A2DP complaint headset for tunes. if you are going phone only with the BT then the Jawbone is the way to go.
bradleylandJun 20, 2007
While the Jawbone is not a true bone-conduction microphone, it does incorporate some interesting technology. It has three microphones:* One points away from your mouth, and picks up the background noise* One uses a little rubber nib to pick up the sound vibrations from your cheek/jaw area* One is pointed toward your mouth to pick up your voiceThe first two are used to build a kind of sound profile for the background noise, and your voice. The only microphone that is actually used for recording and transmitting sound is the last one though. The headset won't work if the little nib is not touching your cheek, and I've noticed that it will do a little better job if it gets better contact with my cheek.There's been quite a bit of controversy over the name "Jawbone", as some people take this to mean that it uses bone-conduction, but the staff at Aliph have gone on record several times explaining that it is not a bone-conduction mic. To be honest, I'm not all that disappointed that it's not. Bone-conduction microphones sound like a muffed mess. You miss all the sharp consonant sounds like ess, th, f, buh, puh, etc. The Aliph Jawbone suffers no such shortcoming, because it uses a real mic to pick up the sound of your voice.
blackeagleJun 24, 2007
could it be any more expensive
spiitzJun 26, 2007
how do you know that the iphone supports a2dp stereo bt. where did you find this information. After much research on this exact point, I found no evidence to support your claim.
fenacvDec 20, 2007
hey, I found that is on sale here! just $78 compare the prices but canada...<a class="user" href="http://www.pricebat.ca/Jawbone-Red-Noise-Shield-Bluetooth-Headset.p_10062809/">http://www.pricebat.ca/Jawbone-Red-Noise-Shield-Bl ...</a>It's good time to go get one.