Comments on: Noise, what noise? Introducing the Jawbone Bluetooth Headset

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:00:59 +0000

So this cancels out the noise going into the mic, but doesn’t cancel out the noise coming through the speaker? Not so great as I prefer not having the volume increasing but would rather have the external noise decreasing like my noise canceling headphones do which I love.

Sounds like a good product other than that, but I’ll wait till noise canceling is on both ends.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:23:13 +0000

Just a quick two notes. In regards to te cap being flimsy and is going to get lost, they say on their site that the cap is just to protect the unit in shipping and is not needed for daily use. As for the fit, I appearently have a big head, with big ears and the unit would twist in enough that the sensor would not be resting on my head. I took the earpad and earloop off and cray glued an eargell from a Jabra heatset that I use to us onto the Jawbone. Now I just pop the Jawbone in and don’t have to worry about the loop and it works great! (The guy from Jawbone suggested to use the eargell with the loop, but I had a hard time getting the Jawbone on.)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:33:48 +0000

Thanks Mike!!

Jeff

By: mike

mike — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:11:29 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I haven’t noticed this behaviour myself or seen it reported widely. Might be something to do on the Mac side of things or battery not charged?

If you can find a Mac OS compatible USB bluetooth dongle you could pair your Jawbone with that. If this works on Skype without cutting out then you have uncovered the problem as being the Mac Bluetooth implementation. If not, then it’s either the Jawbone or Skype.

Sorry I can’t help more, check back later as someone else might have a solution

Cheers,

Mike

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:37:17 +0000

I love my new Jawbone, but it turns off after a few minutes on a Skype call (MB Pro OS 10.5.2). Does anyone have a workaround?

By: mikelwilson

mikelwilson — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:25:53 +0000

Nicolas,

If you get one of these you’ll love it. No other headset comes close.

I have since found out that the headset struggles with wind noise, but they all do and it’s subjective, but I think this one sounds better. The design and placement of the microphone does tend to shield out the wind well unless it’s coming at you face first

By: Nicholas Orr

Nicholas Orr — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:23:57 +0000

I did mean Windows Mobile.

I have one of the ROMs from xda developer.

Will look into if i can afford one of these, thanks again

By: mikelwilson

mikelwilson — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:36:42 +0000

Hi Nicholas,

Thanks. Depends on the Skype client. If you’re talking Skype client for desktop, although I haven’t tested it I’m almost certain that it would work since the device presents itself to Windows XP & Vista as a “Headset” with speaker and microphone. Vista even identified it as a “Jawbone”

If you mean the Windows Mobile Skype client, then maybe. I have the Jawbone working with all my applications (Voice Commander, Media Player, Phone, etc) but some people report difficulties getting the bluetooth handsfree to work as a headset on Windows Mobile. It does involve changing the registry and you should really make sure that you’re using the latest ROM for your device.

Hope this helps.

By: Nicholas Orr

Nicholas Orr — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:17:48 +0000

So does this mean it wouldn’t work with the skype client?

Good review, thanks

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:56:13 +0000

an excellent review, thank you very much!

i am thinking about getting one of these headsets, and found eBay to have the best prices (around £45/50).