3月27日
Platronics Announces New Pulsar 260 Bluetooth Headset
"Plantronics today announced the U.S. introduction of the Pulsar® 260 Stereo Bluetooth® Headset, a unique Bluetooth pendant-style headset designed to support high quality, wireless stereo sound and manage mobile phone calls with the touch of a button. The Pulsar 260 will debut at CTIA Wireless 2007 and expands Plantronics’ growing family of stereo Bluetooth headsets for mobile phones, which also includes the award-winning Pulsar 590 series. The Pulsar 260 enables users with Bluetooth mobile phones featuring the (A2DP) Advanced Audio Distribution Profile to wirelessly listen to stereo music and answer/end calls without the need for an adapter or picking up the phone."


I got a little bit of hands-on time with the new
Plantronics Pulsar 260, and they look like a great accessory for a Windows Mobile device. They were light, small, and most importantly, in-ear headphones. I'm in the midst of writing a review on another set of Bluetooth headphones, but they're the over-the-year design and as such they offer zero noise blocking and fairly hollow sound. In-ear Bluetooth headphones like the Pulsar 260 offer the best of both worlds: wireless connection from the headphones to the transmitting Bluetooth device, but also the noise-dampening effect of in-ear headphones.The Pulsar 260's are available immediately for an MSRP of $109 USD, though the Plantronics representative I spoke with said they should be somewhere around $80 to $90 at retail stores. As much as I like my
Ultimate Ears super.fi 5 headphones, the fact that the cable kinks up on me and never flattens out is a source of constant irritation - so a set of Pulsar 260's may be in my future. The real question is how will they sound...