A small red button on the bottom of the left-hand ear cup pauses music and feeds sounds picked up by the built-in microphones through the earpieces so that users can hear announcements and traffic without taking their headphones off.
Silver Lining Playbook's Chris Tucker at GBK. Attendees received hi-Call Bluetooth talking gloves that allow the user to make phone calls thanks to the glove's integrated microphone and earpiece.
Garten who will be speaking at Le Web next week, and at CES in January sketches a compelling vision of stylish headsets growing more common than Bluetooth earpieces today, and their users interacting with phones, kiosks, and other devices without so much as twitching a lip or finger.
It has designed its software so that recordings automatically play through headphones if they are plugged in, or otherwise through the phone's earpiece when the device is placed next to a user's head and through the speakerphone if held away.
Using a separate earpiece with an attached microphone that extends across the face, the user would directly communicate with the device and is guided through auditory feedback.
Like some other Bluetooth stereo headsets, the earpieces are connected with a cord that drapes behind the user's head.
Just weeks after the device's launch back in early November, reports are now trickling in from users around the Internets that the handset's earpiece tends to flake out.
The earpiece also works with most phones that allow Bluetooth connections, although Earloomz suggests users check their phone manual to be sure.
Fans of the original will be glad to know the new version isn't all that different: Instead of containing a fold-out earpiece like Handspring 's Treo, the new Blackberry works with an external plug-in earpiece allowing the user to consult a calendar, type a note or send an e-mail while talking on the phone.
With Virgin Mobile, for example, he is taking the unusual step of giving away an earpiece with a built-in microphone with each of the company's mobile phones, so users do not have to hold them to their heads.
