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Aliph Jawbone Icon Series - The Thinker Bluetooth

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Average Customer Rating:	4.0
Brand:	Jawbone
Model:	Thinker
Color:	Black
Weight:	1 pounds
Dimensions:	3 inches x 6 inches x 3 inches [Width x Length x Height]

Product Categories

Wireless Accessories; Everything Else; Bluetooth; Cell Phone Brands (feature_four_browse-bin)

Product description

The Thinker features military-grade NoiseAssassin 2.5, for crystal-clear communication. NoiseAssassin 2.5 delivers best in class noise cancellation, wind suppression and call quality. Easily connect and disconnect with dedicated on/off switch. Spoken updates keep you connected, delivering in-ear caller ID, battery status and more. Offers the most ergonomic options of any headset Brand New! Latest Aliph Jawbone, The Thinker! The latest and most sophisticated Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Technology!

Features

ICON - The Thinker features military-grade NoiseAssassin 2.5

Spoken updates keep you connected, delivering in-ear caller ID, battery status and more.

Offers the most ergonomic options of any headset (includes 7 earbuds and optional earloop to ensure a stable fit)

The latest and most sophisticated Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Technology!

Droid, iPhone, Eris, Blackberry, Storm, Curve, Apple, Android, Google Phone, Nexus One

Customer reviews

« Terribly difficult to make stay in your ear »

I'm pretty comfortable saying that the Jawbone Icon is the most ill-fitting Bluethooth headset I've ever owned. It's completely baffling how this made it out of production. You've been warned.

Rating: (1 out of 5) @ 2010-07-27

« Jawbone »

I've been pretty pleased with the Jawbone Icon. Performs better than I expected.

It fits great in my ear and feels tight without getting uncomfortable after a long time. Never had it fall out. The Bluetooth seems to have great range. I left my phone on the second floor and went down to the basement to do laundry and the connection never broke. Quality dropped but thats still great range.

Gripes: the usb charger is hard to plug in and out and makes me nervous I'm going to break something. Sound quality is good but not great.

Overall: definitely recommended.

Rating: (4 out of 5) @ 2010-07-23

« thinker bluetooth »

When my "boys" (sons and grandson) encouraged me to get a new cell phone after 6 years (why... it still worked!)I decided to go all the way and get rid of my wired earpiece and try the THINKER BLUETOOTH. Love it! It never falls out of my ear and the clarity is just excellent. I also like the little voice reminder about how much time I have left before recharging.
For folks my age w/all this new technology, there's always a "learning curve"---it's minimal with this little gem.

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-07-23

« Jawbone Icon The Thinker Bluetooth »

Love the quality of this blue tooth.......not wild about the fit, but then I have small ears. The headset does not always stay in my ear...

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-07-22

« Wow, can't compare in voice transmission quality to Plantronics Voyager Pro! »

I DID IT!

The AT&T store hates me, but you can benefit from my exhaustive (and expensive) research!

I have an iPhone 4 and I've been looking for a good bluetooth headset. I'm most concerned about sound quality. I want the person on the other phone to have no idea that I'm even using a bluetooth headset. I also want to be able to hear them just as well as I can with my iPhone.

So I went to the AT&T store and asked to demo a few bluetooth headsets to see which one sounded the best. I was rudely told that I couldn't try any of them, but I could buy whatever I liked and there was a 30 day refund policy with no restocking fee.

So I grabbed my credit card and purchased:

~Aliph Jawbone Icon (obvious first choice)
~Jabra Stone
~Sound ID 510
~BlueAnt Q1
~Plantronics Voyager Pro

Yup, I really did!

Note that I already owned a Motorola H17 and compared that as well.

Then I got together with a friend with another iPhone 4, and we both took turns listening with and talking with each headset while the other person listened and talked with the iPhone (no headset).

We also tried introducing background noise, mostly just a fan and a TV, nothing extreme (like a jet engine or a wind tunnel or anything).

Aren't you just dying to know what I came up with?

When it came to listening quality, or how the headsets sounded when I listened to someone else talking into an iPhone 4 without a headset, the Aliph Jawbone Icon and the Plantronics Voyager Pro definitely tied for first place, leaving everything else seriously in the dust. I make special note of how disgustingly poor the sound from the Sound ID 510 was despite its gimmicky little iPhone app which did allow you to change the sound but in all cases it was various flavors of awful and bad compared to the Icon and the Pro.

But what was even more dramatic was the way the voice quality was transmitted through these headphones (in other words, what I sounded like to the other person when I spoke through them).

THE PLANTRONICS VOYAGER PRO ABSOLUTELY CRUSHED EVERYTHING ELSE, ESPECIALLY THE ALIPH JAWBONE ICON!

Now I'm definitely not a Plantronics fanboy at all, in fact I think the Voyager Pro is funny looking and kind of large and dorky. But when speaking through it, I sound just the same as I do speaking through the iPhone 4 without a bluetooth headset, and it definitely transmits the best audio, really the only one that was comparable in quality to not using a bluetooth headset. And the listening audio quality was similarly just as good as no headset (admittedly listening quality was good on the Aliph Jawbone Icon as well).

Voice transmission quality of the Jabra Stone was really pretty terrible. The BlueAnt was just so-so both talking and listening. Listening quality on the Sound ID was rock bottom.

I thought the Jawbone Icon won points for style, but you know it's not very pocket friendly, and actually when I put it in my pocket those sharp two corners on the front poked the wang out of my thigh over and over; believe it or not the Plantronics Voyager Pro, which looks large and bulky when deployed, folds up very flat that it is much more pocket friendly than the Icon, and equally pocket friendly to everything else on the list.

Also I had to do AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF EAR GEL ADJUSTMENTS to get the Icon to feel like it wasn't about to fall out of my ear, and it was uncomfortable after a while; the Plantronics Voyager Pro felt very stable and painless right out of the box with no adjustments.

I will say that if you wear really large frame glasses the Plantronics Voyager Pro might get in the way of your glasses earpiece (I'm just guessing, although I have worn sunglasses with the Voyager Pro with no problems).

So there you have it, if you primary concern is sound quality (and it should be), both sending and receiving, Plantronics Voyager Pro for the win!!!

....and I had to box up all the other ones and brave the wrath of the AT&T employees when I returned them all!

I hope that others benefit from my crazy experiment!

*** you know, I never did try the Plantronics Discovery 975 and some day I'll have to grab one of those; I didn't buy it because my friend said the the rigid ear plasticky thing was supremely uncomfortable, but I can't attest to that firsthand, nor do I know how it sounds.

Rating: (1 out of 5) @ 2010-07-22

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