Jabra Wave Bluetooth Headset- Black [Retail Packaging]

Jabra WAVE Bluetooth Headset- Black [Retail Packaging]

• Behind the ear wearing style offers great comfort and discreet look
• Voice Guidance inform you about connection status and low battery when convenient
• Crystal clear sound via Digital Signal Processing
• 3 layer wind noise protection ensures quality sound on the go
• Multi-Use - Connect to 2 devices (such as a personal phone and work phone) at the same time

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Brand : Jabra
Category : Electronics,Headphones, Earbuds & Accessories,Headphones & Earbuds,Earbud Headphones
Rating : 4
Price : US $289.99
Review Count : 2429
SalesRank : 0

Jabra WAVE Bluetooth Headset- Black [Retail Packaging]

• REALLY picky when it comes to how I spend my money. My old earpiece is a samsung and I have had complaints that its hard to hear me at times (I\'m travel for my job - so I\'m in the car ALOT) so it was time to upgrade. I am also a tech geek so I\'m naturally drawn to anything that multi tasks and is new and shiny. I searched for months for bluetooth ear pieces and found a few things I didn\'t know before. There is a greater price difference than features - meaning - just because an earpiece is twice as much as another doesn\'t mean it does or sounds anything differently. I narrowed down to what was important to me - 1/ long lasting battery. 2/ Available speech to text option - either thru a third party program or w/in the apps for the earpiece. 3/ comfort, since I wear it most of the day.I went back and forth between 3 brands. My budget was up to 100.00 so I had a wide range of choices. I read tons of reviews off different sites on the different models. I would have loved to use a jawbone but couldn\'t find a decent battery life. Some of the reviews on plantronics stated fuzziness or muffled voice during some background noises. They all seemed to have about the same features but widely different prices.Altho the Jabra wave was not in my initial top 3,(I didn\'t exclude it purposely) it was a brand I had read good reviews on and since it was an amazon deal of the day at a phenomenal price, I decided to investigate this one - and purchased it the same day. Here\'s what I found:So easy to pair all you have to do is turn it on. Never had such an easy time pairing to my phone.It\'s actually very comfortable to wear. I wear contacts so I haven\'t had any trouble w/ putting the ear piece on and actually forgot I was wearing it a few times. If you wear glasses you will want to put the earpiece on before the glasses but even when I wear my sunglasses it doesn\'t cause me any discomfort. Comes w/ a couple gel tips to adjust to your ear size. The clear/white part actually rests inside your ear just a bit and the loop goes over your ear, obviously. Very comfortable design and lightweight.Call quality is really good. Tested with the driver\'s side window down while I was traveling on a highway and my husband said he could barely hear anything in the background. BTW, this comes w/ a wind attachment thing too. I haven\'t tried it yet. It\'s a fuzzy thing you stick on the end of the microphone. I didn\'t need it. The road noise is what caused me problems before, but it hasn\'t been a problem yet w/ this headset and I drive approx 3000 miles every 6 weeks in my car.It \'speaks\' when it\'s connected and when the battery is low, but does not tell you how low the battery is, a feature I\'d find useful. It will continue to tell you the battery is low at more frequent intervals until you either charge it or it powers down. Takes approx 2 hours to charge, about what I\'ve found is on the \'really good to common\' side for these devices.This does not have a speech to text feature but I have an app for my phone that would NOT work w/ my old headset but works great w this one. The microphone on the headset picks up your voice easily and will work w/ the standard voice search on most android (don\'t know about iphone) phones as well, as I tried it out on mine, instead of using my app, just to test it out.Battery life is decent - about 6 hours talk time - but my old one lasted just a bit longer so I\'m charging this one about twice a week. So far hasn\'t been a pain.Reason for 4 out of 5 stars is kinda silly - nothing is perfect and this is close to it for my needs - however the low battery voice can be annoying as it talks right over your phone call and the callers voice is muted for those few seconds. Not noticeable to them, but grating for me. Jabra would do well to change that feature to when the earpiece is not currently being used on a call. Also - would like more info on the battery life - do I have 30 mins? 10 mins? I\'m sure I\'ll learn as I go on but would find it a useful addition.Instruction booklet was easy to understand and settings are pretty straight forward.For the money - this is a good buy - even at regular price. Quality is very good. Only thing I can see that may not be appealing to others is that this is not a small, hidden, make you look like you\'re talking to yourself kind of earpiece. You can see this one, although it\'s not huge. That\'s a plus for me. I find it on the stylish side. And I don\'t like people thinking I\'m talking to myself.
• TL;DR SummaryPros:- Small, lightweight.- Appealing styling.- Physical buttons for power, volume, placing and answering calls.- Uneventful pairing.- Excellent volume and clarity for incoming audio.- Good clarity on outgoing audio.- A2DP support.- Reversible ear gel.- Can charge from USB port, mains wall wart, or car cigarette adapter (all included).- You can hug someone while wearing it.Cons:- Slight size mismatch on ear gel; my ear can start getting annoyed after about half an hour, depending.- Outgoing sound is reported to occasionally break up (though still an improvement over its predecessor).- \"Battery Low\" voice prompts a bit over-insistent.- Takes rather a long while to charge.Review:My  Plantronics Voyager PRO  had finally caused me one headache too many, and I started looking around for a replacement. While the PRO\'s behavior was annoying, I still liked its physical characteristics, and sought something similar. I wanted something that would fit in a vest pocket, with good sound quality, that looked interesting, didn\'t attempt voice recognition (i.e. had physical push-button controls), wasn\'t terribly expensive, and was an over-the-ear type rather than a shove-it-in-your-ear-canal-and-hope-it-doesn\'t-fall-out type.With some admitted uncertainty, I ordered the Jabra WAVE. At time of writing, I\'ve owned the WAVE for about two weeks, and so far am quite pleased with it.The un-boxing experience was uneventful. One memorable aspect was that the WAVE was secured via easily unhooked rubber bands, rather than twist-ties. All the accessories -- power, cabling, alternate ear gel, wind socks, instruction manuals -- are contained in the package\'s lower box.The WAVE was recognized by and paired with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus without difficulty, and the UI noises from the Nexus were immediately audible through the WAVE. However, I never use A2DP (eats batteries), so I turned it off on the Nexus.The WAVE does have a voice command feature to place and answer calls. Since I talk to myself all the time, this is something I wanted to avoid. Happily, the feature can be turned off.After fumbling it into my ear for the first time (a process that will doubtless improve with practice), it was clear right away the WAVE is an impovement over the Voyager PRO, in that it has an actual power switch. Not a multifunction button; a dedicated toggle switch at the top of the main housing. This means you can, by simply reaching up to feel it, know whether the WAVE is turned on or not. Many has been the time I wished I could know that with the PRO without pushing a button to see if it beeped (and then cancel the action I just triggered).I\'m an infrequent user of Bluetooth earpieces (mostly when I\'m driving), so it took almost two weeks before I received the \"Battery low\" voice warning. This warning is repeated roughly every ten minutes, which in practice seems a little too frequent. I don\'t yet know if the warning prompt talks over a phone call in progress. I recharged the WAVE using my laptop\'s USB port. This took approximately three hours, which seemed a bit long to me.The WAVE is very light, and uses your entire ear to stay in place. So far, it\'s only unintentionally come off once, and that was under duress. I wear glasses all the time, so they and the earpiece compete for space. If you don\'t have a problem with the Voyager PRO, you won\'t with the WAVE, either. For me, its most noticeable drawback is that the ear gel doesn\'t quite line up on my ear canal, and presses a bit on one side of it. If I can\'t nudge it around to not do this, my ear starts to complain after about half an hour. When I do get it to line up, I forget it\'s there.Because it\'s so unobtrusive, I discovered another unexpected win the other day when I went to hug my sweetie while I still had the WAVE in my ear. With the Voyager PRO, the multifunction button would often get pressed against her temple, and the earpiece jammed deeper into my ear. Unpleasant for both of us -- the exact opposite of the purpose of a hug. With the WAVE, both of us barely noticed it was still there.Overall, I\'d call it a winner, and am pleased to have it.

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