Word: bluetooth
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...been using Bluetooth wireless headsets for about a year. Not only do I love the convenience, but I also think they make it safer to talk on the phone while driving a car. Until recently, the simplest and lightest headset I used was Motorola's HS820, but now a number of even smaller and lighter headsets are hitting the market, from Motorola, Jabra and Plantronics. The Plantronics Discovery 640 is not just a tiny, easy to use headset-it comes with a Lego lover's delight of snap-on accessories...
There are more than 182 million cell-phone subscribers in the U.S., paying an average of just over $50 a month, according to CTIA, the wireless-industry association ? Plantronics' new Pulsar Bluetooth stereo headphones ($200) are phone savvy; they let you listen to music wirelessly from a PC or MP3 player, but when a phone call comes in, the music goes silent. --By Wilson Rothman
Suddenly PDA phones are everywhere, in dozens of varieties. Verizon Wireless, for instance, carries versions of the latest PalmOS, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices. Within these categories there are a few different flavors of connectivity, too. The PalmOne Treo 650 (reviewed in another incarnation several months ago) has both Bluetooth and a basic data connection, as well as a voice line (you remember those, right?). Ditto for Verizon's newest RIM BlackBerry, the 7250. And there are variations on the Windows Mobile theme: the UTStarcomm/Audiovox XV6600 with Bluetooth and a connection to Verizon's super-fast EVDO data network (known...
...There are two components, a headphone-jack adapter and a pair of headphones-white and gray, naturally. The system transmits the sound from one component to the other using Bluetooth wireless connectivity. Even some older iPods are supported, provided they have the extra hole next to the headphone jack for remote control. Once you've charged up both units, whose internal batteries last up to eight hours, you power them up and the invisible link is immediately formed...
...biggest relief was, of course, that my music-teleported through space and time-didn't suffer in quality. Still, operation can be a little tricky. Summoning the skills I use with Bluetooth earpieces for my phone, I paid close attention to how long I pressed the on/off button of headphone and adapter, as well as the color of the little indicator lights, and how often they were flashing. It's a different sort of language, but the brief manual has a translation: when you see blue lights, it's all systems go. When either component blinks red, get it back...