Posts Tagged ‘Bluetooth’

Jabra Extreme 2 – high performance Bluetooth headset

Jabra Extreme 2 – high performance Bluetooth headset

If you’re the type of person who likes to conduct your business on the go, or wish to avoid the perils of mobile phone microwaves entering your brain, then a hands-free Bluetooth headset is a worthy investment to make. Plus you get to look all busy and important as you walk the streets chatting into your earpiece.   The original Jabra Extreme was one of the company’s best-selling products, and…

Logitech Mini Boombox – the ultimate portable speaker set?

Logitech Mini Boombox – the ultimate portable speaker set?

We all know what poor quality most built-in speakers are, especially when it comes to mobile phones. The tinny sound output can become grating at best, and if you are someone who likes to listen to music or take calls on your speakerphone, but don’t wish to subject your ears to aural torture each time you do so, then Logitech may has come up with the perfect solution. The Mini…

Bluetooth Robot Sound Box: This is the droid you are looking for

Bluetooth Robot Sound Box: This is the droid you are looking for

It’s a truth universally acknowledged by everyone who’s ever turned an amp all the way up to 11 – music sounds great loud. PMPs and smartphones of all shapes and sizes are pretty incredible music devices – they can store gigs of musical data and even better, can hook up to services like Spotify and tap into an infinite jukebox. But their built in speakers aren’t designed to blow you…

BlueAnt Embrace headphones review

BlueAnt Embrace headphones review

I love a serious pair of headphones. I spend a lot of time working in audio production, editing radio shows and podcasts, creating music beds or jingles and also just listening to loud bass-heavy tunes. It will never cease to amaze me how Apple’s love letter to Dieter Rams, the iPhone 4 (and let’s face it the iPhone 4S as well) ships with such low quality headphones. I’m far from…

US Robotics tread new waters with an ‘uninspiring’ group of tablet accessories

US Robotics tread new waters with an ‘uninspiring’ group of tablet accessories

In the increasingly evolving world of technology and gadgets, manufacturers frequently have to explore other avenues in order to thwart the otherwise inevitable prospect of liquidation from knocking at their doors. The latest electronics company to delve into fresh territory is US Robotics, known primarily for producing high-speed modems in the 80s. Given that modems that were considered high-speed in the 80s have been diminishing almost as quickly as VHS’s,…

Abolish ‘I’ll have to call you back” scenarios with the Jabra Supreme headset

Abolish ‘I’ll have to call you back” scenarios with the Jabra Supreme headset

If you want to be able to concentrate and enjoy having a conversation with somebody without the intrusion of annoying background noise and interference, you may be interested in reading about the Jabra Supreme – the first non-stereo headset to incorporate Active Noise Cancellation technology. Boldly going where ‘no headset manufacturer has been before’ in exploiting the benefits of Active Noise Cancellation technology, it sounds logical that a user’s listening…

Pioneer’s Appradio makes your dash even more dashing.

Pioneer’s Appradio makes your dash even more dashing.

It was inevitable. It had to come eventually and now it has. In car audio has officially gone mobile. Pioneer, never one to shirk its responsibilities, has been the first out of the blocks to fully integrate a smart phone into an in car audio system. The Appradio is a WVGA 6.1” touch screen radio that fits flush into your car’s dashboard to provide all your in car entertainment as…

Freaq out when you’re out and about with the Sound Step Recharge

Freaq out when you’re out and about with the Sound Step Recharge

Soundfreaq is not your average speaker manufacturer – it is in fact a global co-op of craftsman-designers and engineers with (so the press release says) a “deep expertise in consumer electronics and a passion for great sound”. The aim is to work outside the limits of your usual business model so that their people can develop products from the ground up to deliver the best in class acoustics for a…

The FoxLv2 Bluetooth for iPad – Speakers made for the beach

The FoxLv2 Bluetooth for iPad – Speakers made for the beach

It’s pocket sized, pumps out super quality sound and has even been designed by a former NASA engineering legend, what could be a better companion than to accompany you on your travels than the FoxLv2 Bluetooth for iPad portable speakers? As the rain falls miserably on the British Isles – in the North at least – our minds are cast to our impending summer holiday in the sun and all…

BlueAnt S4 True HandsFree

BlueAnt S4 True HandsFree

You might think you have a handsfree car speakerphone … but is it really? The folks at BlueAnt would argue not – pointing to the number of buttons you have to interact with at some stage in using it – and the subsequently point to their new BlueAnt S4 True HandsFree and proudly stating “Look Mom No Hands!” “Really hands free?” you might wonder? Yes really, due to the slightly…