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Jabra SP200
by topsyturvy
I got an early Christmas present from my family and was ecstatic to find it was a bluetooth hands free kit. I had seen my friends dad using it the other week when we were on a long distance journey and at the time had thought that it looked interesting. I have never really been one for these hands free sets as the thought of having an ... ear piece while walking around so I just never bought one which is why the concept for this device seemed great as you don't need anything in your ear to speak while driving and it really is an amazing thing to buy for those who drive a lot.
APPEARANCE
This looks weird if you don't know what it is, it is an oval shaped black device and has the Jabra logo on the front. It has a clip on bit behind it which slides over your sunvisor so that it stays in place which it does so very well. It has a round button which is a wheel at the same time which you will use a lot. It also has a light on it which is blue to say its connected and turns green when you are on a call. Lastly, it also has a slider button on the side which is to turn the device on and off and it has a slot to charge it with as well.
JABRA SP200
Now, the Jabra device has a lot of features, it isn't a brand I had heard of until receiving this as a gift but I have had it for a week and can safely say I am very impressed. The first thing to talk about is the getting it up and running process, now first thing to do is to charge it up which you can do with the USB cable to connect it to the PC or it does have the in car charger that it comes with as well which is handy when you're on the road but a bit annoying as the cable will be hanging down in front of you which I don't really like.
There is a little instruction book that comes with this as well which I also found useful but you need to leave the Jabra charging for a good few hours until it is ready to use and then you can put it into your car. To set it up turn the on switch on once it placed onto your sun visor and then get your mobile phone and turn on the bluetooth but hide it so not everyone can connect to you all of the time. Then, you just need to connect to the Jabra SP200 device which will show up and then you are pretty much good to go. To test it just dial someone from your phone and then it will dial through the Jabra and you can star speaking.
To adjust your call you just need to turn the wheel around and keep talking until you think you have the best sound quality. When someone rings you it will sound through the Jabra and to answer and close calls just click the circular button and it will instantly close or open calls to save you touching your phone. The battery life on this thing is great as yesterday I did a long distance drive in the car and this is was still going strong after a good 5 hours but they do say it has up to 10 hours talk time so when it charges fully it really does do a good job and it lasts. I usually charge it every 3 days or so to make sure the battery is always full.
I find the sound quality great with this device as well, I can always hear clearly and can be heard just as clear, sometimes you may go into bad signal areas but if so then it will be because your phone has no bars of signal so just redial later. The Jabra also has voice dialling on it which I haven't set up yet so basically if you want to ring someone without touching your phone you would just say 'mum' or whoever and it will start dialling them without touching your phone at all. This just makes life so much easier rather than touching your phone it's all done for your through this great gadget.
The weight of this is just 84g and it is L124mm x W56mm x D24mm. I don't take it out of the car often or I'll never put it back in. Just make sure with this that you turn it off, the good thing is though after 15 minutes it has an auto turn off facility so that if you forget the blue light won't stay on all night or whatever. It is handy and I usually turn it off anyway though just to save on power. There is not echo on calls also which I like unless you are speaking to someone who is in a loud place which does make the call get drowned out a bit.
I think the Jabra SP200 is a worthwhile investment, you don't even need to be a business person to have it. I drive to and from work and get frustrated when I see my phone ring and cannot answer it but thankfully this stops that frustration as you can talk when you see the phone ring now. It is just easier to use and saves you wearing an ear piece, it is fuss free and even looks quite stylish as well and for the price it isn't too bad either for what you are getting. I haven't any real negatives to bring up about this as it seems to be that reliable.
COST
You can get this on Amazon for £16.95 which is a starting price and it has postage on top of that. I haven't really seen this on any other website at the minute but Amazon always do a good deal.
For more information you can go to http://www.jabra.com/uk-cp/pages/default​.aspx the official Jabra website.
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Jabra GN 2100 Flex-Boom Duo
by Idiophreak
My work requires me to take part in very long calls - often with little to say, so it's useful to be able to type at the same time as being on a call. For that reason, I was issued with the Jabra GN 2100 headset to plug into the phone.
The headset comes neatly packed in a smart black box, along with a couple of booklets, a ... case for the headset and a spare set of headphone covers.
To look at, the headset is OK, if not remarkable. A black metal band joins two large plastic arms on which sit the leather clad speaker units. These rotate a little awkwardly about the vertical axis, but have no rotation at all about the horizontal. The length of the band can be adjusted with a nice clicking movement to position the headset as is comfortable. The microphone is attached by a plastic arm to the same speaker unit onto which the (relatively thin) cable joins. The mic itself is covered in a nice black foam that looks very smart and professional - and is larger than some. There is a black, rectangular, volume control attached to the cable.
On plugging in, the headset is impressive. The headphones give a really nice, clear sound and other people report that my speech is very clear from the microphone, without picking up too much background noise - although my typing is well audible if I do not mute. I've worn the headset for prolonged periods of time and haven't experienced any discomfort at all - sometimes I almost forget it's there.
Where, then, is the chink in the Jabra's armour? One word. Price. The retail price for this headset is somewhere in the region of £120. This just seems crazy. As it's a nice headset, you may expect to pay more that the standard £5 job from tesco - £40, maybe even £50 - but £120 is just madness. I cannot see how they can justify this kind of money. The optional accessories (I have a USB converter cable) are also crazily expensive (it was £40). For that reason, alone, I'm knocking 2 stars off this product.
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Jabra BT135 Driver Pack
by loopy_lucy
Even before the law came into force that you couldn't use your mobile phone handset while driving I was scouring the internet for a decent bluetooth headset for my hubby and it didn't take me long to stumble across a conversation about the Jabra BT135 whilst looking through a "deals" website. Everyone in the discussion seemed ... to be more than impressed with the headset, and as it's wasn't that expensive at the time (I got it for £25 on special offer) nor intrusive like some headsets, I thought I'd buy it for him to try.
It arrived in it's small packet, and I was actually astonished that is was as small as it was. It's a neat little headset, only about 2-3 inches big, fits really snuggly in the ear. It's really quite easy to pair with your mobile phone, just hold the button until it starts to flash blue and that's basically it - put the pairing code in the phone and you're good to go.
Sound quality - wow, it's superb. Headsets he's had since always cut out halfway through a conversation, or have the ability to drown out what he's saying when he's walking by constant wooshing sounds as if he's standing talking to me on the top of a windy mountain. But this headset didn't do any of that. I could hear him talking whatever he was doing. Even when he was in the car, with the window open. It cuts background sound out really well, whether it's because it's flush to the head or not or if that's exactly how it was designed I don't know, but the whole point of a headset is to pick up what they are saying so they don't have to talk into their handset and it does that perfectly clearly.
Yeah, ok you can interchange the colours - and that's fine if you want to match it to what you're wearing I guess, but this isn't the selling point of the headset. It's small and neat with crystal clear sound and well worth the money. If it wasn't for the fact that his next phone wasn't compatible, he would still have been using it now.
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