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What are some good bluetooth headsets? A couple of months ago I checked out the Logitech UE 900 earphones and found them to be the best earphones I ever tested. Logitech UE also has a couple of pairs of new active noise- canceling (ANC) headphones, the Ultimate Ears 6000 and 9000, and I had the chance to try them both out for the last couple of weeks. If you are looking for high quality ANC headphones this holiday season, these two models should be on your list for consideration. Like all the new Logitech UE gear today, it comes in a black box with blue highlights. The Ultimate Ears 6000 headphones are shown in a glossy image on the front with other data on the headphones in English and French around the other sides of the retail package. Inside you will find the following: It is a nice touch to see the splitter that allows you to share your audio with someone while you use the US 6000 headphones. The soft zippered traveling case is well designed and holds your headphones and cable with more than enough room for extra AAA batteries. There is even a pocket in the case to keep the cable and batteries secure. The nice thing about a soft case like this is that it folds up flat and hides away easily while you are using the headphones. The headphones fold flat with the earpieces resting on top of each other as both arms fold in 90 degrees. I can easily hold the folded headphones in one hand when they are folded up. You then fold out the arms and they click lock into place. You can then fold each side down just over an inch to get them to fit your head. The earpieces rotate back and forth just about 10 degrees to fit your head shape. A red R is on the right side and white L on the left side. There is an very nice soft padded piece at the top of the headphones. The top side of the headphones are covered in black, matte soft touch material. Each earpiece has soft thick padding (made of memory foam with a leather exterior feel) with blue material covering the speakers. There is a glossy blue band around the earpiece with matte and glossy black around the earpiece. On the left earpiece there is a button at the bottom that you press in to release the battery cover. The cover doesn't come all the way off, just enough to allow you to access the batteries and replace them. On the right earpiece you will find the 3.5mm headset jack at the bottom with a button and indicator light on the top. The button is used to turn the active noise-canceling on and off. The indicator light turns green when ANC is on. Inside is a 1.7GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 AP37 processor with 1GB DDR2 memory. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) is on board, along with NFC, HDMI via MHL, and Bluetooth 4.0. The Tegra 3 is a nice bump over the One X's dual-core processor, but it's not state of the art for quad-core chips-and it shows. Benchmark performance was surprisingly mixed; the One X+ is extremely fast with CPU-related tasks, but doesn't do all that well on 3D gaming tests.

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Page 1: What are some good bluetooth headsets?

What are some good bluetooth headsets?

A couple of months ago I checked out the Logitech UE 900 earphones and found them to be

the best earphones I ever tested. Logitech UE also has a couple of pairs of new active noise-

canceling (ANC) headphones, the Ultimate Ears 6000 and 9000, and I had the chance to try

them both out for the last couple of weeks. If you are looking for high quality ANC

headphones this holiday season, these two models should be on your list for consideration.

Like all the new Logitech UE gear today, it comes in a black box with blue highlights. The

Ultimate Ears 6000 headphones are shown in a glossy image on the front with other data on

the headphones in English and French around the other sides of the retail package. Inside

you will find the following:

It is a nice touch to see the splitter that allows you to share your audio with someone whileyou use the US 6000 headphones. The soft zippered traveling case is well designed andholds your headphones and cable with more than enough room for extra AAA batteries.There is even a pocket in the case to keep the cable and batteries secure. The nice thingabout a soft case like this is that it folds up flat and hides away easily while you are using theheadphones. The headphones fold flat with the earpieces resting on top of each other asboth arms fold in 90 degrees. I can easily hold the folded headphones in one hand when theyare folded up. You then fold out the arms and they click lock into place. You can then foldeach side down just over an inch to get them to fit your head. The earpieces rotate back andforth just about 10 degrees to fit your head shape. A red R is on the right side and white L onthe left side. There is an very nice soft padded piece at the top of the headphones. The topside of the headphones are covered in black, matte soft touch material. Each earpiece hassoft thick padding (made of memory foam with a leather exterior feel) with blue materialcovering the speakers. There is a glossy blue band around the earpiece with matte andglossy black around the earpiece. On the left earpiece there is a button at the bottom thatyou press in to release the battery cover. The cover doesn't come all the way off, just enoughto allow you to access the batteries and replace them. On the right earpiece you will find the3.5mm headset jack at the bottom with a button and indicator light on the top. The button isused to turn the active noise-canceling on and off. The indicator light turns green when ANCis on. Inside is a 1.7GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 AP37 processor with 1GB DDR2 memory.Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) is on board, along with NFC, HDMI via MHL, and Bluetooth 4.0. TheTegra 3 is a nice bump over the One X's dual-core processor, but it's not state of the art forquad-core chips-and it shows. Benchmark performance was surprisingly mixed; the One X+is extremely fast with CPU-related tasks, but doesn't do all that well on 3D gaming tests.

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Also, the One X+ scored slow on the Basemark Program Startup test, at least next tocomparable Samsung and LG Android quad-core phones; it looks like HTC Sense 4+, andspecifically the Contacts app, remains a bottleneck here. By all means, the One X+ is one ofthe fastest handsets out there, but I expected more from the graphics hardware. Otherwise,this is a fun handset to use. There are three customizable home screens you can swipebetween, and you can add more. You get free voice-enabled GPS directions with GoogleMaps Navigation, and at the moment, it's way more accurate than what you get on iOS 6devices. Google Play now contains over 700,000 apps, and the majority of them should workfine on this handset, thanks to its increasingly standard 720p screen resolution, quad-coreprocessor, and Android 4.1 OS. There's some bloatware, as is typical for AT&T phones, butit's not terrible. An take a look at the site here can imporve your sound experience, There's 54.8GB ofstorage available on the 64GB handset I tested. There's no memory card slot, but with thatkind of storage, you should be fine for a while, and you can sync media via HTC's ownsoftware or by dragging and dropping to the phone as a USB mass storage device. BeatsAudio software purportedly enhances the sound of your music on the One X+ when usingwired earphones or headphones. In practice, it boosts low frequencies and upper mids, andalso cranks the volume, which is cheating; in back-to-back comparisons, anything louderalmost always sounds better to the human ear. But once you back off the volume and make itequal to what it was before, I found I preferred music with Beats Audio off. The enhancedheadphone amp sounded great through a pair of AKG K 350 earphones. Standalone videosplayed smoothly in full screen mode, and looked resplendent on the HTC One X+'s display. Ihad no problem playing any of my test files up to 1080p in resolution, except for DivX files,which wouldn't play. Music refused to play wirelessly through Plantronics BackBeat GoBluetooth earphones, despite being paired properly. I'll chalk it up to a random incompatibilityissue with that set, because music did play fine (albeit in one ear) with the PlantronicsVoyager Legend headset, so A2DP streaming clearly works. Since this is a smartphone, you'll also want a data plan, which allows you to access theinternet on the go. GreatCall's "Get Started" plan gets you 10MB of data for $2.49 per month.That sounds like a bargain, but keep in mind that 10MB of data won't go very far. You canuse that up just by checking email. Calls do not consume data and you can always connectyour phone to Wi-Fi, but if you plan to surf the Web on Verizon's network, GreatCall offersdata plans up to 500MB per month for $25. The phone comes with an app to track your datausage, and if you go over your montly limit, it costs 20 cents per 1MB. The Jitterbug Touch isrunning Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread). Ordinarily, such an old version of Android would makeme cringe, but it's been Jitterbugged past the point of recognition. GreatCall has simplifiedthe OS with a new interface that makes it fast and easy to access often-used features. Whenyou turn the phone on, you get two main tabs at the top of the screen: Apps and People.Each of these tabs, as well as the other menus, are laid out in scrolling lists with large fonts,which makes it easy to figure out everything your phone can do. Apps is a list of theapplications you plan to use the most. It comes preloaded with Phone, Messaging, Camera,and Gallery, which, if you're looking to keep things simple, are pretty much all you need. Youcan add and remove apps from this list as you please. The People tab, meanwhile, allowsyou to store your favorite contacts. There are also touch buttons on the bottom of the screenwhich open tabs for All Apps and GreatCall services.