Apple’s own Bluetooth earpiece ($130), sold just for the iPhone,
is one of the tiniest and simplest earpieces on the market. It
has several advantages over other companies’ earpieces. For
example, it comes with a charging cradle that looks and works
just like the iPhone’s, but has a hole for charging the earpiece
simultaneously.
Better yet, this earpiece pairs itself with your phone automatically.
You don’t have to go through any of that multi-step rigamarole.
All you have to do is put the iPhone and the headset
into the charging cradle simultaneously—and the deed is
done.
There’s only one button on the earpiece. Press it to connect it
to the iPhone. When the iPhone is connected, you’ll see a blue
or white b icon appear at the top of the iPhone’s screen (depending on the
background color of the program you’re using).
When Bluetooth is turned on but the earpiece isn’t, or when the earpiece isn’t
nearby, the b icon appears in gray.
To use this earpiece, pop it into your ear. To make a call or adjust the volume,
you use the phone itself as usual. The only difference is that you hear the
audio in your ear. The microphone is the little stub that points toward your
chin (the iPhone’s own mike is turned off ).
You answer a call by pressing the earpiece button; you hang up by pressing
it again.
