Jabra Supreme hands-free earpiece
Jabra is a former favourite for hands-free kits, and this is its newest device
Price: £99.99
Contact: www.jabra.com
Does the latest Bluetooth hands-free kit reign Supreme? Jabra’s range-topping Supreme earpiece has a long spec list, including Noise Blackout 3.0 microphone technology to block background hiss on your end of the call.
Active Noise Cancellation is also claimed to help you hear the caller’s voice clearly, and there’s six hours of talk time. A 24mm speaker sits under a padded leather earpiece, and you hook the device over your ear using an adjustable plastic boom, which can be rotated to fit either ear.
The boom, which the mic is mounted on, folds in half for easy storage. Unfold it, and the device switches itself on and initiates pairing. Snap it shut when you’re finished, and it turns off. This works well, as do all the controls: one large multifunction button accepts and rejects calls, a smaller one starts voice commands and there are two volume adjusters.
However, with the window open we found wind noise a problem – the twin microphones picked up a lot of whistling and relayed it to our caller. There’s also no option to read out E-mails, and it feels quite bulky. For the £100 price tag, we were expecting better.
Verdict
Rating: ★★★
What is it?
A clever new hands-free kit that turns on and off by folding it in half.
Problems?
Not as much tech as we’d have liked for the price, wind noise, bulky.
Why buy?
Clever folding on-off switch, comfortable, loud, manual volume controls.
