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Why doesn't Bose have MP3/cellphone hookup in their headsets?
Of course, you can achieve the same result with an earbud microphone/speaker
for your cellphone, which can be slipped under the headset cup. Most have the speaker on cord, which of course won't work. The sidetone through the headset is the voice transmitted through the cell phone. WalMart sells such a cellphone headset for $7.99 or so. I was going to send my Lightspeed back for an upgrade which included the cellphone jack. Since the advent of cellphones with a few milliwatts of power, they don't work in the air anymore. You can receive okay, but the punch is not there to transmit. For the few calls I make on the ground, for a few bucks I use the corded cellphone microphone, and just put it under the earcup on the ground. "Jay Honeck" wrote in message ups.com... Yes, quite lame of them to target the upper crust rather than the spam can drivers. Yet, they laugh all the way to the bank. Right. Bose sells more headsets on the consumer market in a week than they sell Xs to pilots in a year. THAT is the real reason they cost a grand, and they haven't updated the design to include modern features. They've run the numbers and realized that it just isn't worth it. (BTW: I feel the same when I pay almost $500 for a Lightspeed ANR headset that I *know* is worth $100. But, hey, at least I've got a cell phone jack...) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Why doesn't Bose have MP3/cellphone hookup in their headsets?
Test out the earbud thing with your headset. I tried it this summer.
The ear buds I have are just a little too big, they hit the ear cup of the headset thus making them terribly uncomfortable. You need the smallest ear buds you can find. LWG wrote: Of course, you can achieve the same result with an earbud microphone/speaker for your cellphone, which can be slipped under the headset cup. Most have the speaker on cord, which of course won't work. The sidetone through the headset is the voice transmitted through the cell phone. WalMart sells such a cellphone headset for $7.99 or so. I was going to send my Lightspeed back for an upgrade which included the cellphone jack. Since the advent of cellphones with a few milliwatts of power, they don't work in the air anymore. You can receive okay, but the punch is not there to transmit. For the few calls I make on the ground, for a few bucks I use the corded cellphone microphone, and just put it under the earcup on the ground. "Jay Honeck" wrote in message ups.com... Yes, quite lame of them to target the upper crust rather than the spam can drivers. Yet, they laugh all the way to the bank. Right. Bose sells more headsets on the consumer market in a week than they sell Xs to pilots in a year. THAT is the real reason they cost a grand, and they haven't updated the design to include modern features. They've run the numbers and realized that it just isn't worth it. (BTW: I feel the same when I pay almost $500 for a Lightspeed ANR headset that I *know* is worth $100. But, hey, at least I've got a cell phone jack...) -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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