Motorola/Oakley RAZRWIRE to be available in August
posted Jul 25th 2005 1:20PM
Somewhere out there, someone has been
waiting for Motorola and Oakley's
RAZRWIRE (all-caps theirs,
not ours) Bluetooth sunglasses, which we first peeped
back at CTIA, and which the two companies have announced
will be available in August (an inside source informed us that that the top 1,000 retail spots will have it July 24th,
though—i.e. yesterday). The rest of us have already figured out that combining a pair of unremarkable shades with a
Bluetooth headset that looks like it was just clipped onto the side does not a fashion statement — or an incredibly
useful device — make (as clearly evidenced by this pic they've provided). Nice try, guys. But for $300, we can get our
own headset and crazy glue it to a pair of shades if we really want to rock this look (which, trust us, we don't).
uhhh it looks.....gehtto i wouldnt have expected this from oakley. why couldnt they had made it look all FBI style and made a cord to it and made the bulky thing in their skirt or something wait better idea sunglasses with headphones oh yeah they already did that so this has no means to it
They may want to get a different model. Just a thought.
first of all, with maybe the exception of athletes, oakleys were finished quite a while ago.
Second, who do they think is gonna buy that crap?
I am a fan of motorola, but come on...
It's a headset for your phone, It isn't a thump. But yeah it is a little on the too cool yuppie gay side for me. Though I do like oakleys. I find they are fairly "remarkable" when compared to other high priced glasses.
does the fugly shirt come it?
# 5 no one gay would be caught DEAD wearing a pair of these!
You will see the suburban Dad wearing these,thinking he is cool.
What if you want to use your headset in the dark? Another example of too much money in the think tank and no money for R & D.
They should have just made a Thump-style device/shades. Not this half-assed, last-minute-looking contraption.
-- Elias
Grrrr... iTunes is annoying, there are THREE engadget podcast listings.... only one has the new episodes.
#6.....I'm #4. But your probably right, gay people have style. You can subtract gay and replace it with idiotic.
That's Dan Aykroyd in Spies Like Us 2.
This is ugly... I just bought a pair of polarized Oakley Bottlecap sunglasses that have a somewhat thick side to them, if they could build the Bluetooth device into that and put a wire to a small earpiece.. that I might buy... Doesn't look like they have even tried to make this think smaller. It doesn't even look like they've tried to make it any smaller. Hopefully someday it will the whole bluetooth headset will be the size of the earpiece, like a hearing aid.
Opps, that comment was meant for the podcast post... sorry...
guys, that old man is the pinnacle of what 98% of most oakley wearers aspire too.
too much credit card debt, not enough style or class, cruising for chicks during spring break at 'the river' in arizona, trying to get some digi pics of some meat-face girl on coke-whore girl action, in his brand new 2 person see-doo motor boat.
go go faceless corporate entities!
shaka - braaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
My $40 Cardo Scala-500 bluetooth headset came with an eyeglass clip so I can attach it to any glasses I like, not that I ever would.
That'l l make one helluva interesting tanline.
That guy in the pic looks like one of those dorks that hooks up a keyboard to his PDA while sitting in Starbucks.
i think the concept is valid but the implementation is poorly done. also adding the audio bluetooth profile would be nice. instead of the thump, something with headphones and bluetooth would allow a person like me to not wear sunglasses, an earpiece and headphone while i'm traveling. a hybrid with a clean design is something that might sell. it would be less bulky than the thumps and hopefully more thought and time would be put in than these razrwires. bluetooth headphones are becoming more the norm and more and more states are requiring earpieces or speaker phones in vehicles so a product of the nature i'm describing is valid
*shrugs* bt units and its accompanying batteries are still too large to do the whole built into glasses thing. or at the very least its cost prohibitive. wake me when a l-ion battery is stuffed into a small tube of pair of glasses and the other side at the end of the band that goes over the ears has a small bud that has the radio with an antenna going forward towards the front of the glasses with some insanely small plug for an ear/microphone. until then this shit is a joke. if it ain’t inconspicuous its crap afaic.
when are people that wear bluetooth headsets in public going to realize that they look like absolute tossers. probably never i guess...
i own a bluetooth headset for use whilst driving but would not be caught dead wearing it anywhere in public.
ok i agree with the tone of this. it does just look like a bluetooth earpiece cliped on to some ordainary sun specs. so why dont the makers of bluetooth ear pieces for any phone make a spectacles clip as well as an over ear clip? i wear specs and hate the over ear clips given i already have an over ear clip on my specs and two is just uncomfortable. dont tell me the market is not big enough 'cos it is
oakleys are so (like) 1998. trust me people, they stopped being cool (if they ever were) about the same time stussy ball caps did. secondly, wearing a headset when you're not actually talking on the phone makes the wearer look like a complete dork. thirdly , wearing a bluetooth headset that is stapled to a set of oakleys is much, much nerdier than the combination of these two offenses.