ronald does that also have a microphone or is seri picking up your voice through its microphone. i'd really rather go with traditional ear phone type instead of bone induction myself. thanks max On Mar 22, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Ronald van Rhijn wrote:
> Just bought me a Plantronics Marque 2 (m165) single earpiece headset after > looking at all the options. > I considered the Jawbone Era and Plantronics Edge as well, but the Jawbone > models need to touch your jaw in order to function properly. Don’t know if > this is part or full bone conduction , but didn’t want to have something to > be on my face. The Plantronics Edge is larger than the Marque 2 and more > expensive. The additional features of the Edge like noise cancelling and > charge unit I don’t need. So I bought the Marque 2 and very satisfied with it > where I use it for, some reading in public transit. The unit has some > physical buttons for volume, on/off switch end multipurpose button for Siri, > answering etc. The unit speaks when turning on how much talktime there is > left, the pairing process, volume etc. The Marque 2 costst about 50 euro. > Ronald > > >> Op 20 mrt. 2016, om 01:50 heeft Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> het >> volgende geschreven: >> >> Scott, >> >> I've not tried the Plantronics legend but know it was a great device back in >> the day, >> >> Would you still put it above the Edge? >> >> >> And I used one of the early era devices but at that point it's accessibility >> wasn't great. Still it was an excellent device, >> I just need to stop being so hard on headsets. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados >> Sent: Sunday, 20 March 2016 4:53 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: blue tooth headsets >> >> Max, your brother is misinformed. Bluetooth is a series of specifications >> that are standardized so aside some special features in general most things >> work pretty well with each other. There are headsets in general though that >> work better than others. This is one of the favorite topics of mine and >> also the moderator’s Mark I believe. >> >> In my mind there are two ways to go and there have been the 2 same players >> on top for a while now. There is the plantronics legend and the era by >> jawbone. The Jawbone is the most stylish / smallest headset and the >> plantronics is the largest most utilitarian of the two. Depends on what >> your goal is. If you want to look cool, have good noise reduction, medium >> battery life and have the same toys as the cool kids buy a Jawbone. If you >> want your headset to work in all conditions, want fantastic noise reduction, >> don’t care about the fact there’s a boom microphone and you need great >> battery life then the plantronics voyager pro legend is the way to go. >> Hands down the plastrons works the best it’s just whether your concern is >> mostly function or you want some style. >> >> How’s that? >> >> BTW I use the voyager pro legend almost exclusively now although I carry >> both. I find the plantronics just more stable and for my professional calls >> and work environment the only option. >> >> >>> On Mar 18, 2016, at 2:53 AM, 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> hello; I'm wanting to buy a blue tooth headset to go with my iPhone. my >>> brother said that when he looked online he heard that a lot of them don't >>> work with the iPhone. so what would you all recommend? 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