Aliph Jawbone Era:
$129 Direct
Pross: Good looking, excellent sound quality, especially
for A2DP, can run applications
Couns: Sound quality can be just a touch muddy
The Era is the start of something new and exciting. It's the first Bluetooth headset with an accelerometer and a dedicated application processor, which could turn it into anything from a game controller to a pedometer to a navigation unit.
Like all Aliph products, the Jawbone Era is a sharp-looking headset. It's slimmer and slightly longer than the most recent Jawbone Icon, and comes in four, low-key collors: black, white, brown, and black-and-red. It also comes with eight different sets of ear tips, so you can find just the right fit.
Though its call quality isn't quite up to the level of the Plantronics Voyager Pro+ ($99), it's close enough that it won't matter for many people. The era has adaptive volume, which works very well outdoors to balance earpiece with bakground noise indoors, it tends to be quite loud. Transmission quality is impeccable.
Like the previous Jawbone Icon, The Era runs "apps": new alert voices, and ways to reconfigure the headset's action button so it can dial services like TellMe on demand. The headset's dedicated TI applications processor gives it potential to run richer apps.
With the embedded accelerometer, you can shake the headset to put it in pairing mode, and tap on it firmly to answer or end a call, very neat.
The Aliph Jawbone Era is the best Bluetooth headset avalaible today, and its powers will grow. If you can afford $130, It will put you on the cutting edge.
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