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| New Genuine Retail Package Aliph Jawbone Icon Series - The Academic - Bluetooth Headset |
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| Manufacturer: Jawbone |
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| List Price: $129.99 |
| Sale Price: $66.69 |
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ICON - The Academic facial appearance military-grade NoiseAssassin 2.5, for crystal-clear communication. NoiseAssassin 2.5 delivers best in class noise abandonment, wind suppression and call quality. Easily join and disconnect with dedicated on/off switch. Spoken updates keep you connected, delivering in-ear caller ID, battery status and more. Offers the most ergonomic options of any headset (includes 7 earbuds and discretionary earloop to ensure a stable fit).
Groundbreaking new! Latest Aliph Jawbone, The Academic! The latest and most sophisticated Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Technology!
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- ICON - The Academic facial appearance military-grade NoiseAssassin 2.5
- Spoken updates keep you connected, delivering in-ear caller ID, battery status and more.
- Offers the most ergonomic options of any headset (includes 7 earbuds and discretionary earloop to ensure a stable fit)
- The latest and most sophisticated Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Technology!
- Droid, iPhone, Eris, Blackberry, Storm, Curve, Apple, Machine, Google Phone, Nexus One
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 Simply Incredible |
| Review Date: February 1, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Erb Avore, Mumbai, India |
I've had over 20 headsets and am exceptionally fussy. This headset is by far the best is most ways.
Fit:
Its hard to clarify how it fits different, yet its comfortable and secure. The headset slides into the ear instead of being compressed into the ear.
Quality of Voice in normal background:
Exact. It's the only headset where I NEVER got a protest.
Noise Abandonment:
Nearly exact. Just make sure the headset touches your face.
I had Prince jamming on the radio where the windows in the house were rattling.
I could barely hear the other person or myself, yet they could only hear a clip of the music every few seconds. They could hear me fine.
Tie to Phone:
This is where the largest tribulations occurred. It sometimes took up to a minute of trying to get the headset to join on my Palm Treo.
My Blue Ant connects every time without a glitch.
The only other headset that comes close is the Blue Ant V1.
If I were to rate both, I would give the Icon a 9.0 and the Blue Ant V1 a 7.5.
I rate all other headsets below a 5.
The only feature I want to see on these headsets is a way to find them when they get misplaced.
I don't know a way for the phone to communicate with it when a button is pushed on the phone.
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Visibly better than the Plantronics Voyager Pro in my tests
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| Review Date: March 21, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jason, |
I recently bought the Jawbone Icon and Plantronics Voyager Pro at the same time so that I could test them both out and return the "loser" in my tests.
I've owned several Plantronics models over the years have never been particularly impressed by their noise reduction capabilities. The new Voyager Pro turned out to be no exclusion.
I performed like peas in a pod tests in my home, leaving voicemails for myself to test the sound quality of both headsets under various conditions. My tests built-in:
Sitting on the couch with the TV louder than I naturally listen to it
Sitting on the couch with music before a live consultation pretty loudly
Standing at the kitchen sink with the water running
Coffee grinder running
Silent room (to test general voice quality between the two headsets)
After listening to the voicemails I left for myself with each headset, the Icon was the clear winner. Noise abandonment was MUCH better with the Icon (at least with my iPhone - I don't know other cell phones would have different penalty). In a silent room, the voice quality for both headsets sounded pretty much on par from what I could tell.
I also called a friend and continual these same tests during a "live" phone call and he inveterate that the Icon was the clear winner on his end as well.
The only thing I didn't test was wind noise, but that's not a particularly common scenario for me. Mainly, I needed to ensure that I can work in public places such as coffee shops and not have my clients distracted by social class noise and the Icon seems like it will do just that! |
Like it! The best jawbone yet and fits so well
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| Review Date: March 24, 2010 |
| Reviewer: K. Kohatsu, Chicago, IL |
This is my second jawbone. I had the first one within a month after it was released and used it until recently, when transportation it around in my purse on a daily basis in effect broke it. I loved the first jawbone, as it was one of the most comfortable headsets I'd ever had AND the noise reduction was fantastic.
The new Icon (I have the Academic) is honestly so much better. It is smaller, which is simpler to store and carry, and the Noise Assassin works fantastic. The best part, though, is how the small rubber ear piece is really more than enough to keep the headset snugly and comfortably in my ear. It's quite incredible. No more broken loops and there's *that* much less in total hardware to get caught in a touch. Did I mention how small the piece is? Less than two inches end to end.
I also like the place of the talk button and the fact that "she" will tell me how much talk time is left in the charge. It paired effortlessly with my iphone. |
learning experience
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| Review Date: April 8, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Rohn S. Bayes, San Antonio, TX USA |
I'm pleased with the sound quality. It didn't cut out all the wind blast on my bike but that may be too much to question. The fit has been a learning experience which i haven't finished yet since I just lost the separate ear loop (after 3 days with the manufactured goods). I called the customer help line 1 800 529-2663 and got prompt and forthcoming help (2 new ear loops in the mail for free). That's fantastic benefit and shows the company is proud of their products and stands behind them. They admitted that the ear loop design was new and proposed to solve the breakage problem of the older design but had it's own issues. It's usable without the ear loop since they provide a number of different sized earbuds but it feels precarious. The fit issue in fact may be a positive for some because it offers so many options, we've all got different ears not to mention brains. I gave it 5 stars even though it has an ear loop issue. The pointer I got from callers on the sound quality was impressive and the company seems to be on the case about the ear loop problem.
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Fantastic Headset
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| Review Date: June 9, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. D Martyn, Elk Grove CA |
| One of the best bluetooth headsets I've ever used. Outstanding battery life and quick charge. Comfortable to wear for long periods. The ability to cancel out social class noise and wind is superior to the Motorola and Jamba headsets I'd earlier used. Nice feature in the ability to change the notification voice as desired. Only protest is that the enclosed user guide is pretty vague on how to set up and join to your phone, in fact had to go online for better directions |
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