When it comes to the Jawbone brand, most people think of it is the launch of the Up bracelet. In fact, Jawbone's Bluetooth headset and Bluetooth speaker is its old line, the bone conduction technology used in the Jawbone Era Bluetooth headset is on the market. The most advanced technology.
Two days ago, Jawbone launched the new Era Bluetooth headset in China. Although it is late, we think this evaluation is still meaningful. Abandoning the communication technology of the traditional Bluetooth headset, Jawbone is guiding the reshaping of the Bluetooth headset. This fading industry is moving in a new direction - personalized management and improved interaction, and our evaluation is mainly from these two perspectives.
In fact, all of Jawbone's products have an excellent software combination solution, whether it is firmware update or personalization is done by PC, but Jawbone is not managed by PC software, but utilizes a lightweight Software that directs users to their official website.
Take the Mac as an example. After the user downloads and installs the Jawbone Updater, once the Bluetooth headset is connected to the Mac, the user can see the prompt message on the icon of the taskbar. Click My Devices, and the browser will automatically jump to the Jawbone official website.
After logging in to the user account, we can see all Jawbone devices under the account on their official website, such as Jambox, Up, etc. If there is a firmware update, the corresponding product will display a prompt, click to update the firmware directly on the web page.
Click on the Era product map to enter the specific personalized management interface. Era includes four categories: Voices, Shortcuts, Caller ID and Connections.
Voice is used to customize Jawbone Era voice, including system prompt voice and language. Jawbone has a wide selection of voices, including 10 kinds of voices, robotic style sounds, voiced female voices, and various funny sounds. The language includes nine mainstream languages, including not only Mandarin, but also Cantonese. Whether it is a prompt voice or a language user can click the icon to listen, click Install to install into the Bluetooth headset.
Caller ID is used to customize the caller's name and number. Users can edit up to 20 phone numbers here. After syncing to Era, Era will automatically prompt the caller's name when calling.
Users can see all Jawbone Bluetooth connected devices in Connections, and Jawbone supports connecting multiple devices at the same time.
Shortcuts user-defined shortcuts, although Jawbone Era has only one button in addition to the switch, but you can customize the command by clicking, double-clicking, long-pressing, such as pressing the automatic broadcast remaining time, double-clicking automatic redial, Press three times to automatically play music... The user can modify the long press command to activate the voice control system or dial.
It should be noted that the function of automatically playing music needs to be set in the Jawbone mobile phone client. The user needs to set a music list in a mobile phone, and can play automatically after pressing the button three times.
In the past two years, the sound of Bluetooth headset fading has never stopped - people are increasingly disliked to call. But Jawbone's senior director Tim Pryde believes that the situation is changing, Bluetooth headset may become a popular word again.
Pryde's point of view is that the survival of Bluetooth headsets does not depend on the voice call scene, it may continue to thrive on the trend of smartphones opening voice interactions - wearing Era Bluetooth headsets can easily activate Siri or Google Now with a long press of a button Without having to take out the smartphone from his pocket.
In our actual experience, Jawbone's customization of phone numbers is more convenient and practical than activating voice control systems, such as dialing or receiving calls on a crowded subway without having to pull out the phone.
But this is still very limited -- Era is too small to customize more features, for example, it can only redial automatically and can not dial any number in the address book, it can only play the user preset music. Lists can't play music online. But with voice control systems like Siri, these features can be achieved without touching the phone. In addition, users can also learn about weather conditions, send text messages, set schedules, etc. .
So, we think that the greater significance of calling voice control systems like Siri and Google Now is to extend the functionality of Jawbone Era. Of course, there is a premise here that the voice control system is powerful enough and you use it often.
Although there are still limitations in the management and interaction of Era, we are still willing to put it into the category of wearable devices: the so-called wearable device itself does not have to be smart, it does not need to be very strong to monitor data and transmit data itself. For computing functions, these can be handed over to the phone.
Coordination, itself is a way of thinking about wearable devices.
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