Entries from Manifest Tech Blog tagged with 'Bluetooth'
Plantronics Bluetooth Headsets
Bluetooth wireless earbuds are the minimalistic approach to personal music, with just the two small earbuds (see previous post). But the small size means tradeoffs, including shorter battery life. If you are looking for other alternatives, Plantronics offers a wide...
Altec Lansing True EVO Wireless Earbuds
Beyond wireless portable speakers (see previous post), the best way to hear music is to put the speakers directly in your ears, as wireless earbuds. These are truly wireless, with no cable between the two earpieces and no cable to...
Altec Lansing Portable Bluetooth Wireless Speakers
The excitement in audio recently has been in Wi-Fi speakers for smart homes that can be coordinated and controlled by voice commands. But Bluetooth wireless speakers still are very useful -- especially as a personal, easily-portable speakers that can move...
Perennials: Fitbit Zip & Fitbit One
I've covered the Fitbit line of fitness trackers back to at least 2012. And I've carried a Fitbit tracker for that long as well. However, Fitbit has been struggling recently, since it focused (like many others) on the exciting potential...
Google Assistant on the Google Pixel smartphone and Google Home speaker
The Amazon Echo Bluetooth speaker with the Amazon Alexa digital personal assistant is designed to integrate voice-based personal assistance into your home (see previous post). And smartphone-based assistants like Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana make sure the same...
Amazon Echo Dot and Alexa Digital Assistant
We're entering the era of digital personal assistants -- voice-controlled devices that provide information, keep notes and reminders, and even carry out actions for us. Smartphone-based systems like Apple Siri, Google Assistant, and Microsoft Cortana can retrieve information, play music,...
Fitbit Charge 2 with Heart Rate Monitoring
Fitbit continues to enhance its line of fitness trackers to help monitor and encourage your activity and health. You can start with small pocket trackers like the Fitbit Zip and One ($59 and $99) that track your walking steps, stair...
Tile Slim - Thin Bluetooth Tracker
The Tile Bluetooth Tracker is a smart idea, nicely executed. The Tile is a small device that you can attach to your keys or slip into your briefcase, so you can quickly find your stuff -- or your smartphone --...
Switchmate Home Smart Light Switch
The "Smart Home" is a cool vision -- You can automate your house by connecting your lights and appliances and locks and sensors and other devices together, control them remotely, and even access them over the Internet. So you can...
Creative iRoar Intelligent Bluetooth Wireless Speaker
The Creative iRoar Bluetooth speaker is a ridiculously powerful and full-featured box o' sound. This is a booming speaker with 5 drivers. Lay it on its side for maximum sound, with dual 2" high-frequency drivers facing out the side,...
Jabra Halo Smart Neckband Bluetooth Headphones
If you're on the phone a lot during the day, and also like listening to music, the Jabra Halo Smart neckband-style Bluetooth headphones are a great choice, with great sound, great battery life, and a smart design. These have...
Sound Blaster Roar 2 - Portable Bluetooth Speaker
I'm a big fan of portable Bluetooth speakers to share the music from our portable devices. There are nice small more portable speakers for an office space or hotel room, and larger ones to pump up the sound for a...
Plantronics BackBeat GO Wireless Earbuds
Headphones are not just for music, and are adding mics and mini controllers to switch between listening and phone calls. Similarly, Bluetooth headsets are not just for phone calls, since you might as well enjoy all that music on your...
Plantronics Voyager Legend
The Plantronics Voyager Legend is the latest iteration of the venerable Bluetooth headset (see earlier post) with an iconic over-ear design that's bigger then tiny in-ear headsets. Since the headset rests gently over your ear, you can wear it...
Jabra SPORT Bluetooth Stereo Headset
Bluetooth is great for voice when talking on your mobile phone with headsets like the Plantronics Voyager PRO HD (see earlier post), and works nicely for wireless peripherals to use a mouse or keyboard with your laptop or tablet. But...
Plantronics Voyager PRO HD Bluetooth Headset
It's inexorable -- computing power is cramming into smaller and smaller devices, as our tools become more and more intelligent and connected. We now expect smartphones to deliver serious computing power and capacity for running rather interesting apps. And now...
Jawbone ERA Bluetooth Headset with HD audio and motion control
The Jawbone ERA Bluetooth headset continues the parallel Jawbone traditions of leading noise reduction technology and more and more accessible designs, as with the previous Jawbone ICON (see earlier post). On the technology side, the ERA updates the NoiseAssassin noise...
Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro Mobile Phone Handset
The classics never go out of style, so Native Union has introduced the Moshi Moshi Retro Mobile Phone Handset -- the 50's telephone style lovingly brought back as a handset for mobile phones. If you tend to chat on...
Sound ID 510 Bluetooth Headset with iPhone App
Bluetooth headsets are getting smarter, and while it may not be obvious why you might want more intelligent devices hanging in your ear, hear me out... Bluetooth headsets certainly have become more sophisticated with audio processing to work amazingly well...
Aliph Jawbone ICON -- Simply Better
The Aliph Jawbone line of Bluetooth headsets has been a stand-out since its 2007 U.S. introduction, combining leading noise reduction with aggressive styling. And the new Jawbone ICON is another significant step forward, not only boosting the noise reduction technology...
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