What is going on, everyone, I am Mike, welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV.
Glad to have you back here, because we are talking about
something that no one likes its conference calls, right.
Who likes conference calls?
Raise your hand if you do not.
That is certainly me.
I spent a majority of my day, probably about four or five
hours on conference calls.
And I mean, let's be honest, conference calls, they stink.
You know, you have all your problems.
People can't hear you.
You can't hear people, you people's dogs in
the background barking.
You have that infamous dreaded double mute which people still
haven't learned a year later into the pandemic.
Well, if you are like me, you hate conference calls.
You really want to make the best of it.
I have got something for you to check out.
These are the Jabra evolved to 65.
These are Onir headphones from Jabra, and they are meant
to elevate your conference calling game.
These sound good, they look good and they really make,
I guess, taking calls effortless,
but maybe a little bit more pleasant.
They cost about 225 to 250 bucks depending on where you
find them at.
But these are wireless headphones that not only
integrate with your computer, so they work with Skype,
they work with Microsoft teams, they work with
blue jeans, all the major unified
communication platforms.
But they also allow you to go and connect to your iPad,
your iPhone.
So they support multiple devices.
So you maybe don't necessarily have to take all your calls
from your boring home office.
Now, before we get to review, just to make sure that you and
I are on the same page, this video is not sponsored
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This video is not paid for by job.
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Now, when I was looking for headphones, I wanted to
make sure that one, my headphones would be
extremely comfortable because I use them for a long period of
time every day.
To that I sound good, right?
The audio quality going to solve my problem.
And then three, that they're going to integrate it or work
with my unified communications platform of choice
of my employer.
These Microsoft teams and these headphones specifically are
designed for teams, though.
They make headphones that work with Skype teams, blue jeans
and zoom as well up rolling down support article,
which will tell you which U.S. platform that they work with in
case you want to make a pair up for yourself.
So let's talk about the specifications these headphones
support Bluetooth five, which is the latest
version that's available.
There are many different buttons on the headphones.
There's a volume up and down button.
There's a mute button.
And on the side here, there is a multi multifunction button.
When it's connected to your computer, you can send
a call, you can join a call.
It's already in progress.
Or you can go ahead and answer a call.
When it's connected to your phone, it'll go ahead and
call Siri in terms of being comfortable.
These are very comfortable.
All right.
They sit on ear so they don't go over the year.
They don't cover your full year.
And there is a design here that this yoke, which will go ahead
and pull in or pull out each of the ear cups individually for
a better fit.
These ear cups do fold in.
So when traveling you can put them inside the car in case
they come with and have them fold in.
There's a boom arm on the right hand, your cup,
which will rotate up and down, allowing you to mute and on
mute your call that you're on.
So if you're talking to someone and you want to go mute without
actually hitting the keyboard shortcut or hitting the mute
button on your computer or your phone, you can do that
very easily here in addition to a physical button for
that mute.
Now, you can also use it to get into your phone call.
So if you have these on and you if someone calls you, if you
flip down the mic, it'll as a phone call as well, which is a
nice feature because you don't have to go fumbling around for
the getting the keyboard shortcut,
the keyboard button.
You just click on the mic and take the call.
Now, since I'm using these for long periods of time, I want to
make sure that the battery life is going to be appropriate and
these do not disappoint.
When you plug these in, you're going to get a full
battery charge in about 90 minutes.
So on Sunday night, I make sure that they are charged before I
start my day on Monday and they generally last me
throughout the week.
I don't usually wear these.
When I'm listening to music, I use something different.
If you're using the Evolve 65 strictly for phone calls,
you're going to get about 35 hours of battery life.
Now, if you're not using them for just taking phone calls,
you can listen, listen to audio.
And they do sound good.
I mean, they are obviously not very bass heavy.
It's a very clean, I would say,
neutral sounding profile.
But they do sound adequate enough where you can listen to
podcast most music types and you're going to be,
I would say, satisfied with the way that they sound.
Now, these headphones do have a charging dock that is available
to about 60 bucks.
I bought mine from Dell and I put a link down description,
but if you want to pick that up, but you pop these in
and there's a nice charging station for you to go and drop
the headphones whenever you want to use them or whenever
you're not using them.
These come in basically two different models.
There is a UPC model, which I have and the other version,
which is.
Now the USB dongle, I would tell you that you want to make
sure that you don't lose this because this piece is very
expensive by itself.
I think it's one hundred dollars if you lose it.
But this will plug into your computer.
And this is actually what makes the magic happen between your
headphones and your computer.
This is a separate transceiver that is going to be used to
transmit audio between your headphones.
And this is going to encode the audio and make it sound better
than basically what you get on Bluetooth.
Now, when you plug these directly into your Mac,
your PC, in my opinion, I think the audio quality is great.
But what I want to hear from you is you let me know what you
think about them.
I have my dongle plugged directly into my Mac Mini via
this Thunderbolt dock here.
And we're going to record some audio using the voice notes
application of my Mac.
So let's go and put these on.
Hi, this is Mike and we are recording audio,
this audio sample.
No.
One I'm using the Chabra evolved 65 plug directly into
my Mac mini using the USB dongle that's included.
Let me know in the comments below what you think about
the audio samples.
Now, having heard these before, I know they sound
good and I think they sound better than most Bluetooth
headphones because of that pairing between the dongle
and the headphones.
It's not going to suffer from all the same kind of weaknesses
that regular Bluetooth has because it is a direct
communication between the device in the transceiver,
which for me, I think that's going to make all the
difference in the world.
I want to make sure that when I'm on calls, as much as I
don't like them, that this is coming across clear,
intelligible and concise.
So let me know what you think about the audio sample sound,
the comments below.
But for me, I think it is a winner.
In addition to supporting the headphones being connected to
the dongle, you also have the ability to be connected to
seven other devices.
So for me, I have these headphones paired with
my iPhone, with my iPad, which allows me to use
Microsoft teams on those devices and have these work
as Bluetooth headphones.
In order to go and do so, you need to download the Jabra
app from the App Store, install it, and then once you
install it, it'll walk you through the pairing process.
You're going to hit the power button down, put it in
pairing mode, and then from there you can customize many of
the different options that I talked about earlier.
Now, if you are using this with your iPad or iPhone and you're
using it as a speaker or as a microphone, you're going to
get mostly the same functionality.
There are some things that will not work that are reserved for
the Mac client.
But for the most part, I have not seen anything that's too
significant where I'm like, oh, wow, I wish I had that feature
on my iPhone or iPad that didn't work on my Mac.
Now, at the end of the day, you have to ask yourself,
are the job or to sixty fives worth the price of admission of
approximately two hundred twenty five dollars?
Well, for me, I said the answer is undoubtedly yes.
If you take, you know, 20 hours of calls per week, you do that
50 weeks a year.
That is 1000 hours per year that you're spending
on conference calls.
I take that price.
I divide that by a thousand.
I'm paying roughly a quarter per hour for every hour that
I'm on the phone using these, which to me, that is
a no brainer.
My sanity is worth way more than a quarter per hour,
that fact.
Now, if I also take in the fact that one, I can use this with
many different devices to the audio quality.
Sounds great.
And three includes a charging cable and case.
Plus the cushions are replaceable.
You probably can get more than a year's worth of use
out of these.
Now, it's not so great is that if you lose the dongle,
it's going to cost you one hundred dollars to go and buy a
new one and have that repaired with your device.
Let me know what you think about this and down in
the comments below.
My name is Mike.
This is Tech 24/7 TV.
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