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Logistically, the headset worked fine. It
I would recommend the Apple headset for
pairs easily with the phone when the two are an iPhone owner who wants to cut down on
attached at the same time to the cable or cables when traveling. however, make sure
dock. As with other Apple designs-the one- that it fits you well and won't fall out.
button mouse and the one-button iPhone-
the headset has a single button, at its tip. It WhAt's the opposite of a bluetooth
also has an LED that goes from red to yellow headset? External speakers, of course. The
to green during charging, or when you turn Dutch design firm boynq (http://boynq.
the headset on and off.
com) makes a variety of highly porby itself, the one-button design left me table speakers that marry
uncertain as to whether the headset was attractive form and
paired with the phone or whether it was on. qualit y sound. The
however, the headset also generates ris- sleek black-and-silver
ing or falling tones to indicate whether it's model of the icube II
on or off, and these tones provided better ($69) shown here is
guidance than the LED. The phone itself indeed a cube, 10 centican help. once the devices are paired, the meters on a side, that
iPhone lets you select, at any time dur- a l s o s e r v e s a s a
ing a call, from its three possible sources recharging station
of sound: the headset, the regular phone for your iPod, iPhone,
speaker you hold up to your ear, or its built- or iTouch.
n
in speakerphone.
The manual's instructions showed me FOR One and all:
The iPhone Bluetooth
how to pair the headset with my laptop, so Headset [previous page]
that I could use the headset for a voice-over- and the icube ii
complement one another.
IP phone call with Skype.

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