Jabra Halo
Company: Jabra
Price: $99.00 MSRP
Last January, a friend of mine who had been searching for a Bluetooth headset talked to me about the Jabra Halo . He fell so in love with it that I decided to jump in and buy one.
The Jabra Halo is a Bluetooth headset that has many interesting features to make it worth checking out. First, it supports A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) that makes it an excellent wireless stereo headset for listening to music or podcasts from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (or other device that support this Bluetooth profile). It’s also a Bluetooth headset for phone calls, so if you’re listening to your favorite music and your iPhone rings, you can answer from it directly by pressing the only button it has.
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Callpod Vetro Bluetooth Headset
Company: Callpod
Price: $99.95
I’m not traditionally a headset person. I have always despised the telephone for being a monoaural device. Using only one ear makes me feel like I’m using one side of my brain, and conversations require both. Hence, I never enjoyed using any phone until I got my iPhone and was able to make calls with the Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic. It probably doesn’t say much for me, that I require twice as much of my brain to enjoy a conversation as most people, but there you have it. Add to that the discomfort and poor audio quality I’ve found in the average headset in the past, and it has kept me from ever using one longer than the ten or fifteen minutes it took to test it out.
BlueAnt V1 Voice Control Bluetooth headset
Company: BlueAnt
$99.95 US
http://www.blueantwireless.com
While I’ve long been a cellphone user, I’ve never taken to using a Bluetooth headset. Each time I see a person with one stuck in an ear, my first reaction is that they have some horrible growth on the side of their head, and why don’t they get it surgically removed. However, the Weeks Division of MyMac Labs recently received an evaluation unit of BlueAnt’s V1 Voice Control headset. I swallowed my fashion concerns, and gave the V1 a try during a four-day business trip.
BlueAnt touts the V1 as the world’s first voice controlled Bluetooth headset. While I take any such “world’s first” claims with more than a pinch of salt, BlueAnt has created a fairly good Bluetooth headset.
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