Mvox Duo Bluetooth headset and speakerphone

It's hard to believe this is a first (you listening China, Korea?) but Mvox is calling their Mvox Duo the "world's first all-in-one wearable smart communicator." Surely, it's not the fact that this Bluetooth headset can be used with your cellphone, hands-free car kit, or favorite VoIP application (yes, it works with Skype), so it has to be the fact that it does all that and contains a speakerphone. The speakerphone with "patent-pending small array microphone technology" is said to allow the device to offer near 100% voice recognition. In other words, it's designed to "grab the speaker's voice" while blocking-out the background noise. It can also be attached to the PC via USB cable which hopefully doubles-up as a charger. Available Q4 which could mean next week, for $199, list.

[James @ Sep 26th 2006 3:07PM]

Sounds nice on paper, i'd like to see it in action.

[dhard @ Sep 26th 2006 3:21PM]

you forgot to mention that on top of ALLL of that, it makes you look like a total dork when you wear it

[ThaShef @ Sep 26th 2006 3:22PM]

I dont see how this is a first of its kind, maybe for the speakerphone, but BlueAnt X3 Micro supports 3 profiles and also I think its much smaller than this also only 70 bucks.

[Grant @ Sep 26th 2006 3:30PM]

I wish my danm Wizard would work with a BT headset w/o any trouble. I still dont know why it insisty on only connecting, but not entering "hands free mode"

[Shaun Andrews @ Sep 26th 2006 4:49PM]

OK - sounds great...that is until you forget its in speakerphone mode and try to use it as a headset - say good-bye to your hearing.

[bee_digi @ Oct 1st 2006 12:18AM]

According to this IEEE article:
"A magnetic switch in the lapel-clip turns on the speakerphone; pull the earpiece out of the clip and the speakerphone switches off; this protects your ear from an accidental up-close overdose of sound."
http://staging.spectrum.ieee.org/sep06/comments/1616