Jabra’s extreme hyperbole

Jabra Extreme bluetooth headset – Mystifying. To go to so much effort to engineer such a device, make it look nice and put it in a smart box. A pair of $5 ‘buds with one side chopped off will do much the same job. So much technology, so little point.
It sure looks the part. All black Cylon hi-tech styling with a range of differnt clips to suit every cranny of every ear. But then you use it, and deep existential questions rear their uncomfortable heads.

Why so much, to do so little? You have to use the supplied Bluetooth USB dongle to connect it to your laptop. Which works perfectly well, but my computers all have Bluetooth. Why the dongle? Pairing the Bluetooth headset with the mobile phone works perfectly well (BB Curve and iPhone 4), but call quality is as dubious as most Bluetooth headsets, which is to say, about adequate….

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