This page details how you can buy Jawbone Headsets. "Jawbone" is a brand name for a family of products from Aliph, a San Francisco company who specialize in noise canceling Bluetooth Headsets.
You can buy the Jawbone at Amazon.
Products to date in the Jawbone family have included:
- Jawbone, released February 2007http://cd.ciao.co.uk/Jawbone_Jawbone__6619602
- Jawbone 2, released May 2008http://reviews.cnet.com/headsets/aliph-jawbone-2-black/4652-13831_7-33018886.html
- Jawbone Prime, released May 2009http://www.expansys-usa.com/d.aspx?i=182880
- Jawbone Icon, released January 2010http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_jawbone_icon
Any of the Jawbone family can still be bought but the only ones currently sold by Aliph are the icon and the primehttp://us.jawbone.com/productsPageMain.aspx. Current retail prices from Aliph are $129.99 for the prime and $99.99 for the icon. Jawbone 2 is available new from Ebay for typically between $40 and $50http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=jawbone+2&_sacat=See-All-Categories.
Our advice when buying a Jawbone Headset would be to buy the Icon, if you can afford to. This has a cheaper retail price than the Prime and is the most advanced in functionality.
Currently the Jawbone Icon is only available direct from Aliph or from a Verizon store. The following message was posted on the Jawbone Facebook site on January 18 - "Thanks to their amazing network coverage and our unsurpassed noise elimination, Verizon customers can now talk wherever and whenever they want with the brand new Jawbone ICON. And with over 92 million customers nationwide, that’s a lot of talk. Go to a Verizon store now to pick up a Jawbone ICONhttp://www.facebook.com/jawbone."
If you choose to buy a Jawbone Icon then you will have six persona choices and will need to decide which one suits you best?
- The Thinkerhttp://www.mobilefun.co.uk/jawbone-icon-bluetooth-headset-the-thinker-p23196.htm,
- The Roguehttp://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2010/01/18/jawbone-icon-in-6-designs-and-mytalk-video/,
- The Herohttp://www.bestbuy.com/site/Jawbone+-+Icon+The+Hero+Bluetooth+Headset+-+Black/9705691.p?skuId=9705691&id=1218159404084,
- The Acehttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/aliph-jawbone-icon-the-ace-bluetooth-headset-review/,
- The Catchhttp://reviews.cnet.com/headsets/aliph-jawbone-icon-catch/4505-13831_7-33948116.html and
- The Bombshellhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703837004575013070526364044.html.
Features and Functions
Features and functions of the Jawbone Icon, the most recent Jawbone Headset include:
- High quality audio, even in testing noisy conditions
- Volume equalizing, evens out the volume of calls, including with multiple speakers, for example in a conference call
- Good range, up to 15 feet away from handset without static
- Speaks the ID of the current caller and the amount of battery life left
- Available in six styles, also known as personas
