Aliph Jawbone goes double or nothing

You may remember the Aliph Jawbone as the slick Bluetooth headset that seemed a natural fit to the iPhone. Not satisfied with sitting on their laurels, Aliph’s launched the new Jawbone 2, updating the original Jawbone’s design and improving the unit’s much touted features.

Not only is the new headset 50% smaller than the original Jawbone, but it also features a leather-covered ear hook instead of the first version’s rubberized one. And they’ve even managed to improve the most impressive feature of the last version, its military-grade noise canceling functionality. From what we’ve heard, the new system, dubbed “NoiseAssassin” assassinates noise. Kills it dead.

The headset has four hours of talk time and 80 hours of standby. If you want it now, you’ll have to go for it in black, though later on it will be available in silver and “rose gold” (which looks an awful lot like “gold” to me). You’ll also have to fork over your $130 on either Jawbone’s own website or at an AT&T store.

[via Macworld]

Category: Hardware

Posted by Dan Moren on May 15 2008, 1:06 PM ET

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