Nokia's world-beating BH-905 Bluetooth cans slip into the photo booth
By Darren Murph 
posted August 17th 2009 8:03AM
posted August 17th 2009 8:03AM
posted August 17th 2009 8:03AM
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They look great, but who is gonna sit in a train, plane or bus with such a thing on his head?
When i hear cans I always think of jugs.
I am.
Love the Bose QuietComfort 2's, they sound great for music and make airplanes tolerable, but they aren't wireless and don't have a mic for phone calls. If this Nokia set doesn't degrade the sound by overcompressing it for Bluetooth transfer, could be worth the upgrade.
Since these are chunky headphones, it'd be nice if Nokia tossed in an mp3 player & microSD slot so it could play music standalone, but whatever. If it works with the HTC Hero it could wind up on the shopping list.
If you've never ridden a plane, train, or bus with noise-cancelling headphones, you have no idea how much better the experience can be. Might be worth putting some electrical tape over the brand name so you don't get mugged for them.
Too expensive, I'll wait for the Nokla version wired bluetooth version.
It comes with adapters to make it wired.
not me!
10 microphones? what else is it gonna pick up other then my voice?... hopefully not my farts!
its too big to carry around anyway.
Sophisticated noise cancellation needs a couple of microphones...
Thats the thing that caught my eye to. Where the hell do you need 10 mic's for? So it can pickup every sound you make?
You might want to hit the "Read" link before jumping to conclusions. 10 microphones are used to detect and cancel the noise.
ya maybe.. but still i feel In-Ear headphones does the best noise cancellation if you're using the right size of buds.
@ Privet: Thanks for the Heads-up.
Active noise cancellation (not the pasive kind where you stuff ears full of cotton for example) works with cancelling sound by playing the sound at opposite phase. To play the sound at opposite phase you need to detect the sound, at thats where the microphones come into play.
Why 10? A microphone can't get sound from all over the place but has a beam, like a flashlight or antenna. My guess is that the microphones have about 90 degrees beams and they are place in each capsule one in front, back, up, down and one to the out. That way you'll get the whole field of sounds, except inside your head which should be pretty quiet unless the bats in your belltower get noisy.
So the claim of worlds best? Might be true at least in the noise cansellation departmen as i havent heard of a product with that complete noise detection with microphones.
@ Newone I get what you're saying but thats a bit too much sophistication if you ask me... just think if one of the microphone fails one day!.. then the whole experience will turn into a disaster... but still can't argue until i've actually tried one.. if its really something mind blowing then and then only is this expensive device worth considering.
Debends how the microphone fails. If it goes the usual way and goes silent the net effect is that theres a 90 degrees cone out of where coming noise won't be canceled as much as it used to.
As for sophostication I like to see at least one manufacturer doing things right even if the product goes out of my spending window. If you compare the headphones sold in that price range to these, at least on paper they look pretty good. I personally like more the headphones that are slightly bigger covering whole ear but these look like good sized for traveling in a train or plane. But too expensive for me.
Way too expensive I think.
Those supple ear cups better be something other than vinyl or leather, or it's going to be a sweat-fest.
i use nokia n79 and pair it with my blackberry premium in ear headsets. No hitch and most importantly, within my reach.
I'd feel wierd with overhead cans in the public now :\ Guess thats just me....
Before ppl start flaming me , i know that this style is probably the best for great audio quality but while travelling everday in a bus , it is sort of impossible to carry such a pair....
Agreed. Im feeling the same way.
if they come with a hired gun to storm the apple campus forcing the iPhone to finally fully support A2DP and AVRCP, I'm in.
Wait, these WON'T work with the iPhone...?!?
You will get sound... but will also have to hold the iPhone to change the volume, or advance to the next track....
Don't you have to do that with any set of earphones?
They will cancel your voice too,
More like cancel your credit card.
So who's the OEM?
Holy macaroni, that is pretty much everything I've ever wanted, EVER!! If these deliver the promised sound quality, and I can manage to collect the cash to buy these babies, I'm gonna get them.
best sound isolation I've found so far is using my Etymotic ER-4S with Westone long foam earpieces. plus they sound damn good. only they don't support bluetooth... but why the hell would you want a full size headphone with bluetooth anyways?????