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I picked a Jabra tour some days back. I bought it from Amazon and it cost me Rs. 5000/-. More details over here -
Bluetooth Speakerphone, Jabra TOUR
Jabra tour is a bluetooth speakerphone, primarily for your car. It connects to your phone and enables you to remotely dial and receive calls, while you can safely concentrate on driving.
Reason for choosing the Tour over the competition:
Initial impressions of the Jabra tour:
Bluetooth Speakerphone, Jabra TOUR
Jabra tour is a bluetooth speakerphone, primarily for your car. It connects to your phone and enables you to remotely dial and receive calls, while you can safely concentrate on driving.
Reason for choosing the Tour over the competition:
- Jabra Freeway offered one extra feature which is an FM transmitter. I did not really care about transferring the sound to my car's speakers since I will be listening to music from my USB and wont really be switching to FM every time I get a call. Secondly, I wont be using this to stream music to the car's speakers as it will drain my phone's battery and the quality will be nothing great. Plus the Freeway costed about Rs. 1000-1500/- more.
- Jabra drive was cheaper but it did not have motion sensors, so it wont switch on/off automatically every time you enter/leave the car.
- I read poor reviews about Blaupunkt's kits, so I avoided them.
- I was very close to buying the Plantronics K100, but that again did not have a motion sensor. I think a B/T kit should work seamlessly without making you aware about it. No point if you have to manually switch it on/off every time, since I would avoid doing that eventually and stop using the device altogether!
- Parrot Minikit+ was another great device but it offered nothing great above the Jabra Tour and still cost about Rs. 1000/- more. Also, it was too big compared to the Tour and also I did not like the way it fitted to the visor in the car, with the help of an ugly elastic band.
Initial impressions of the Jabra tour:
- It is a very well built device and oozes quality.
- Initial pairing is very easy and it copies all your contacts quickly.
- Whenever you get a call, the caller name (if stored in your phonebook) is mentioned loud and clear.
- It has voice recognitions, which means when you are getting a call, all you need to do is say 'Accept' or 'Ignore'. Of course, the physical buttons are present, just in case.
- Voice recognition also helps is other voice commands like 'Redial', 'Battery', etc. But the device does not accept Indian accent very well. Luckily, it understands 'Accept' and 'Ignore' easily!
- There is a voice command shortcut button which helps Apple users use Siri and Android users use Google Now remotely.
- Speaker quality is great and all calls can be heard loudly without distortion.
- Mic is also good and users on the other end of the call can hear me comfortably without any issues like echo or muffed sound, etc.
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