iPhone headphones

[John Duncan]

Having given up on trying to get a Nexus One to work (though still negotiating an HTC Legend for Android R&D purposes), I took delivery of an iPhone yesterday. Was on way home listening to Spotify (through Senns rather than the Apple headset, obv) and the phone went. Was very odd - I answered it as one would normally do - taking one earphone out and holding to ear - and the voice came from the other earphone still in situ. Eventually ended up talking to the bottom of the iPhone Apprentice stylee...

This state of affairs can't obviously be allowed to continue (ie I want to buy new stuff) - has anybody had experience of replacement buds with a built-in mic? I see that Sony do them, and Apple do their upmarket ones, but don't think I've seen any others - anybody got any suggestions?

 

[Clare Newsome]

We've reviewed quite a few pairs with built-in mics, but don't have that feature in our current online review tech-specs (ahem...), so you'd need to root around the in-ear reviews....

These Altec Lansings are particularly impressive, though not fully iPhone-compatible in terms of playback controls.

 

[nads]

IIRC Monster to an iPhone compatable extension that has the mic built in. so you can use any 'phones you want.

 

[Andy Clough]

Etymotic hf2s have a built-in mic and the earpieces an be customed-moulded to fit your inner ear, which makes them (almost) noise isolating. And how come you got your iPhone before me, JD?

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[Anonymous]

Andy Clough:Etymotic hf2s have a built-in mic and the earpieces an be customed-moulded to fit your inner ear, which makes them (almost) noise isolating. And how come you got your iPhone before me, JD?

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Count yourself lucky! Now you can get yourself a Nokia N900, which eats iphones for breakfast.

 

[John Duncan]

Tarquinh:Andy Clough:Etymotic hf2s have a built-in mic and the earpieces an be customed-moulded to fit your inner ear, which makes them (almost) noise isolating. And how come you got your iPhone before me, JD?

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Count yourself lucky! Now you can get yourself a Nokia N900, which eats iphones for breakfast.

Except it doesn't. But hey.

 

[John Duncan]

Andy Clough:And how come you got your iPhone before me, JD?

Funny, eh? Especially when I wanted an Android phone instead...

 

[Fisherking 145]

Klipsch S4i's are pretty good, & Sennheiser do the mm50's, which are cx300's with a mic. The Etymotic hf2's allow playback control but no control over volume, the s4i's do, not sure about the mm50's. The Sennheisers can be had for very little money, just type mm50 into Google.