Review: JAAP Bluetooth Wireless Heaphones - long battery life!!

Jaap Sports truly wireless headphones by alpha and delta in Singapore (https://www.alphandelta.com/home-1) even come with their own battery extender that will allow the headphones to continue working for\additional hours - perfect for long flights that I have been recently taking.

The JAAPs are a hybrid over ear and in ear design keeps them snuggly in place.

Works great with my iPhone 7 plus but issues with my cheap Lenovo tablet, it connected but no sound came out. These headphones are good for music, podcasts and audiobooks but not for watching videos or YouTube on your phone as there is latency issues when watching video, resulting in the audio and video getting out of sync.

After a few days of use here is my rating:

Pros:

• LONG battery life, especially using the self-contained battery charger/extender that you can drape around your neck, charging while you listen. 
• Hybrid over-ear and in-ear keep the headphones in place securely
• I like the case provided

Cons:

Can't be used to watch videos due to latency issues when watching a video, resulting in the audio and video getting out of sync.

4 Stars

Disclaimer: I was provided with a pair of the Jaap truly wireless headphones for free by the company Alpha and Delta for evaluation and this review

Review: HearFuse 'True Wireless Earbuds' bluetooth wire-free headphone

In ear pods with 2 headed charging cable

Overview

I saw an online ad for the Hear Fuse Bluetooth in ear wire free headphones (that's a mouthful. I'll call them hear fuse from now on) and liked the small look of them. I have been on an almost perennial search for a small pair of Bluetooth headphones I can fall asleep wearing and not wake up looking like some S&M participant all tangled up. While doing some googling into the Hear Fuses I found a distinct lack of original information rather than just regurgitating the company's website. I want to add to remedying this issue.

After the Hear Fuses arrived I was a little dismayed to see they use a 2 headed proprietary pin charging cable for USB charging and they are slightly larger than I expected.

You pair each ear piece separately and they magically sync up to give stereo listening, at least that's the theory. I am achieving 60-80% success with dual connection and have required the delinking and relinking by Bluetooth at least 4 times so far this weekend.

The Good

• I like that I can just use one if I want, such as laying down or while driving.
• They seem to have decent (multi-hour) battery life with their overall combined charge showing on my iPhones screen.

The Bad

• The proprietary charger - ugh how annoying - seriously its 2016. I don't want another cable!
• They are a bit bigger than I imagined.
• The website - seriously minimum information provided.

3/5 *

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• EDIT: Feb 2017. I have been using the earphones for a while now. I realised that you just Bluetooth pair one headphone and then turn the other on. They talk to each other. Also - side note. The charger is the same as the Nokia small pin plugs.  I lost the "Y" cable after a few weeks. I purchased USB micro to Nokia pin converter plugs on eBay - haven't looked back.   Upgrade to 4/5.  

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Quantifying self - Fitness / life tracking

I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 program about Life tracking ( they had a fancy title, Quantifying self). While listening I was thinking HOLY CRAP, thats me.. my whole life is recorded - whether pictorially through Facebook or Instagram, textually through here or tumblr and fitness wise I will go into below. I recently have been trying to shift some KGs after hitting my highest weight without much effort! (mid 80kgs)

As you are probably aware, I am a gadget man, the first item that grabbed my eye was the new Fitbit Flex.

Basically its a Bluetooth Enabled Pedometer which doubles as a sleep tracker.

The wrist based device 'gameifies' the process of basically moving your body. In default setting of 10000 steps as a goal per day the device shows one single light per 2000 steps, providing vibration feedback when the 10000 is reached. The crowning glory of the divide in my opinion is back end - the app tracking and recording.

More recently I have added the Aria - the wifi enabled scale that perfectly couples with the Flex and the Fitbit app, not just measuring KGs but also lean body mass.

For the record - am now in the 70kg range.

Fitbit Flex:

[youtube=http://youtu.be/viZsv2kMZeo]

Fitbit Aria:

[youtube=http://youtu.be/Pap8wqbKqIM]

Adding runkeeper to my arsonal has really helped to, I am finding I am racing my own personal best minutes per KM rate.

Runkeeper

http://runkeeper.com/home

I have recently found a new service that claims to link / sync everything together - I am still testing this:

Sync Metrics

http://www.syncmetrics.com

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02mfzrw