Archive for the ‘Bluetooth’ Category


Plantronics Discovery 640E Bluetooth Headset

Plantronics Discovery 640E Bluetooth headsetMy pick for today also happens to be Product of the Day here at Price Grabber, so it’s available for a fabulous price. I’ve really been looking at Bluetooth headsets more closely lately trying to determine which are the best of the best and which are just trying to look cool.

Is it too much to ask for me to want my Bluetooth headset to look minimally dorky and sound decent too? I don’t want a giant blob on the side of my face while I’m out shopping, and I don’t want the person two aisles over to hear my husband asking if I bought allergy cream or not… yeah, that’s not fun.

wearing and talking on Plantronics Discovery 640E Bluetooth headsetThis Plantronics bluetooth headset gives you a sleek shiny style without looking or feeling too heavy, and gives you up to 15 hours of talk time. Weighing it at just 9 grams, it’s a lightweight bluetooth too. To extend your call time the headset comes with a small carrying case that holds a AAA battery to charge up between calls for those busy days and long business trips.

Posted on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Plantronics Discovery 640E Bluetooth Headset by loretta


Supertooth Bluetooth Handsfree Speakerphone

Hands free is the way to go with your cell phone in the car, and if you live in California it is now the law as well. Bluetooth headsets are great, but if you don’t like having something attached to ear all the time it can be annoying. Personally, I hate having things that feel like they are going in my ear, like earbud type headphones for example.

BlueAnt recognized this need for other hands free options and came up with a great bluetooth speaker phone to use in your car. You just clip this onto your sun visor and you’re ready to go.

Supertooth Light Bluetooth Handsfree Speakerphone

The Supertooth Handfree uses real-time audio to process any echo or background noise resulting in the improvement of the sound quality to give you easy to understand calls no matter if you are sitting in the parking lot or driving down the highway. I know that sounds like a bunch of advertising jargon, but it means you don’t have to shout into the microphone, and you don’t have to crank the volume on the speaker in order to have a conversation with someone, making it easily comparable to if not better than an ear style bluetooth device.

Posted on Monday, August 18th, 2008 Supertooth Bluetooth Handsfree Speakerphone by loretta


The Jawbone

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I wouldn’t be a very good Tech Style writer if I didn’t talk about the Jawbone. Everyone seems to be raving about it lately. It’s been on tech and gadget blogs across the internet.

This bluetooth headset has approximately 6 Hours of talk time and somewhere around 200 hours standby time before needing charged again. You can choose black, silver, and oh look, there is this year’s most popular tech accessory color …. red.

This bluetooth headset has been so well received and attracted so much attention that it was even featured in an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Now that is very cool for a piece of technology.

But, I’ll be honest with you. What really gets my attention with the Jawbone isn’t it’s unique style and appearance. It’s the sound quality. If you’ve ever used a bluetooth headset in a busy store on a Saturday afternoon you know that not all headsets are created equally. The Jawbone’s Noise Shield technology uses an advanced, military-grade noise-canceling system that continuously adapts to the users’ changing environment to deliver and receive unparalleled Audio quality.

How many of your other gadgets have the power to adapt to your environment? That’s just awesome. This way you and the person on the other end of your call aren’t shouting at each other so loudly that the person three aisles over in the housewares section can hear both sides of your conversation. Believe me, your fellow shoppers will appreciate that you look great and that you’re not taking over the shopping aisles with your conversation.

Posted on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 The Jawbone by loretta


Tattoo Your Bluetooth

BlueTrek Tattoo Bluetooth headsetYou change your clothes every day. You change your handbag every now and then. You wear different shoes to match your outfit on a particular day. What if you could change your Bluetooth headset to match your outfit or your mood just as easily? Well, you can with the Tattoo Bluetooth headset from BlueTrek. The set comes with 8 skins that you can interchange to match your mood, your outfit, or just for fun.

The different skins snap on and off easily giving you style without sacrificing important features like noise reduction and echo cancellation. You’ve also got volume controls and a multi-function button that quickly and easily does a last number redial, call start, call end, reject or mute. You also have the option of using the voice dial feature for ultimate hands free use.

The boring details: 4.5 hours of talk time and 96 hours of standby time. Compatible with Bluetooth 2.0 and EDR -enabled mobile phones, PDAs, PCs, printers and more that support headset and hands-free profiles.

What is the box? Travel Charger, 8 interchangeable skins and 2 earhooks, and an easy to read manual. Can be worn with or without ear hooks.

Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Tattoo Your Bluetooth by loretta


Going Bluetooth without the Bulge

Everywhere you go these days you see everyone with their little bluetooth headset bulge on the side of their head. I’ll be honest, I hate most of the ones I’ve seen. They’re always shaped awkwardly into chunky and often ugly black glob of plastic to stick on the side of your head. Who wants to walk around like that all day. But, admittedly they are convenient while wrangling children, carrying groceries and playing super executive.

http://ai.pricegrabber.com/pi/2/97/30/29730751_125.jpgExtended comparison shopping and bugging a lot of friends led me to find the best compromise on a bluetooth headset. I certainly don’t want to be the only one with an actual telephone to my ear. The verdict? Motorola carries the best bluetooth head gear collection. They have different styles and most of the designs are compact in comparison to other brands.

The Motorola H700 Wireless Cell Phone Headset that I pictured here is one of the newer models from them that comes in the ever growing in popularity shade of red. It seems that everything is coming out in red this year, so you’ll be able color match all your tech.

Of course there are other models from Motorola that I thought were equally interesting and worthy of looking at. There are a few different shapes and sizes, but they are all pretty proportionately sized. The point here is that you want something compact and sleek, instead of what appears to be a huge bug on the side of your face. And a little color never hurts in the tech department either. Standard black is always still sexy, but I’ve been finding the latest gadget colors to be a lot of fun too.

While you’re shopping and comparing remember to check out sound quality. Motorola not only gets points from me for style and shine, but mega points for being the least likely to annoy me at the store. What I mean there is that not everyone in the coffee shop wants to hear your whole conversation. Make sure that your bluetooth levels are well adjusted for both the sound going in and the sound coming out.

Posted on Monday, April 28th, 2008 Going Bluetooth without the Bulge by loretta