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I once made the mistake of buying Jabra wireless sports headphones. You know there will be a problem if you open the box and the first thing you see is a piece
by jwr 8y ago
I once made the mistake of buying Jabra wireless sports headphones.
You know there will be a problem if you open the box and the first thing you see is a piece of paper and a phone holster, obviously thrown in at the last moment. The piece of paper says you have to use the phone holster to attach the phone to your right arm. Yes, your right arm, the closer to your right ear the better. The instructions were very specific.
As it turned out, the wireless connection was indeed so crappy that it required holding the phone right next to the headphones. Don't like to attach the phone to your upper right arm? Tough luck.
I have stayed away from Jabra ever since.
- paulgb 8y agoI'm curious which headphones they were? I have the Active 85t and I've been pretty impressed with how they stand up to the interference on a busy NYC street. The (non-Jabra) headphones I had before that had to be in a chest pocket to avoid interference. Sometimes I can forget my phone until I'm a few steps out the door because the connection goes that far.
- stronglikedan 8y agoPlantronics does the exact same thing with their Backbeat Fit line.
- joshschreuder 8y agoI can speak from experience here, I have had both Backbeat Fit 1 and 2 (I'm using the 2 right this moment) and they are very good. The range is decent, not huge, but you certainly _don't_ have to have the phone on a particular side of your body. I can walk out of the room and still have audio, but also to be fair that's not really their use case.
- stronglikedan 8y agoI had the 2100, and the connection was spotty when I had my phone in my left pocket. Their proposed solution was to carry my phone on the right pocket. My accepted solution was to return the defective device.
- tinus_hn 8y agoA somewhat silly problem with bluetooth is that the signal will reach pretty far, but can be blocked by your body. So you can have a good connection while the phone is on the other side of the room and a bad connection if the phone is in the wrong pocket. That is probably the reason they include instructions like that.