Jabra unveiled the new very stylish Jabra Stone Bluetooth headset last week. Engadget got their hands on a Jabra Stone and published this review.

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Jabra unveiled the new very stylish Jabra Stone Bluetooth headset last week. Engadget got their hands on a Jabra Stone and published this review.

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Finally, the teaser’s over. The latest delivery to Engadget’s UK penthouse is the Jabra STONE Bluetooth headset due out in the US on 8th November, and we took no time to extract the pebble from the transparent cylinder. In front of us are the two parts of the STONE: an earpiece of a breakthrough form factor that instantly makes you pity its rivals, and behind it is the accompanying portable charging base which serves as an external battery. The latter is equipped with a micro-USB port and an LED indicator — simply green or red — to show whether there’s enough battery juice for one full charge. It’s a pretty neat idea as this is the only feasible way to fit eight hours of talk time (or twelve days of standby time) into such tiny package: two on the earpiece and an extra six from the surprisingly light battery base — our scale reckons it is just under one ounce. We also dig the auto-off function when you dock the earpiece and vice versa. Docking and undocking are pretty straight forward too: just snap in for the former, and poke your thumb through the bottom hole of the base to push the earpiece out. The generic click button hidden under the Jabra badge is easy to access and responds well. Above that is the invisible vertical touch strip for volume control and similarly it responded nicely to our strokes. What’s left on the earpiece are the two LED indicators on the underside for Bluetooth connectivity and battery. So far so good, but what really matters is the ear-on experience and the audio quality — listen for yourself after the break.

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Jabra STONE Bluetooth headset review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft just turned in its first quarter financial report card, and while the good vibes around Windows 7 launch haven’t yet begun to fade, the numbers here aren’t exactly cheery: revenue is down 14 percent from last year at $12.92b, operating income is down 25 percent at $4.48b, net income is down 18 percent at $3.57b, and earnings per share are down 17 percent at $0.40. Not wonderful, but it’s better than analysts were expecting, and the stock is actually way up on the news. Adding in the deferred revenue from early sales of Windows 7 makes things look a little better still, with only a four percent decline in revenue and an eight percent increase in earnings per share, and the Entertainment and Devices Division — home of the Xbox 360 and Zune HD — is also a bright spot, increasing income from $159m to $312m on essentially unchanged revenue. Of course, the big test will actually be next quarter, after Windows 7 has really had a chance to make an impact — we’ll see if all these warm fuzzies translate into cold hard cash.

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Microsoft first-quarter income down 18 percent, still beats expectations originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Microsoft first-quarter income down 18 percent, still beats expectations

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Slacker phases out hardware business, focuses on other devices originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jabra unveiled their new ultra-stylish Jabra Stone Bluetooth headset.

The Jabra Stone Bluetooth headset’s curvy design is optimized for right year wearing and offers Bluetooth 2.1+EDR.

Other features of Jabra Stone include noise cancelling, 8-hour t…

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