Com One Bluetooth Speakers - Tech Review

Com One Bluetooth Speakers - Tech Review Tiffany Young: Hi there and welcome to Neo-Fight.tv – The Technology Show for the ‘Not-So-Geeky.’ My name is Tiffany Young. Ben Freedman: And I’m Ben Freedman and on the show today we’re taking you—oh, wait big news. Big news special show this is our 200th episode. Tiffany Young: 200th episode. Ben Freedman: 200th episode. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: We have 200th episode and every single one is on our website. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: So if you want to take a look at —you want to know how to spend like 61 hours of quality footage. Tiffany Young: That’s a— Ben Freedman: You watch every episode from the beginning. Tiffany Young: Wow! Well we can just look at how much technology just changed us since the beginning. Ben Freedman: Oh yeah. Tiffany Young: You know is that something. Ben Freedman: Almost two years ago. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: Back then we were talking about you know, you know vacuum tubes and transistors. Tiffany Young: Pests. Ben Freedman: There’s new 13-inch colored T.V. It’s fantastic. Tiffany Young: I know it seems like gosh wow 200 episodes. Well, congratulations. Ben Freedman: Congratulations 200th episodes. Tiffany Young: yeah, 200th episodes. Ben Freedman: And here’s to the next 200th. Tiffany Young: Absolutely yeah, as long as we keep getting stuff, right. Ben Freedman: Exactly. Tiffany Young: Do we get, when do we get paid? Ben Freedman: Yeah, that’s a good question. Tiffany Young: Because I was just wondering with the shirt now I was worry if you could put some money into your wardrobe. I’m just teasing. Ben Freedman: What’s wrong with this shirt? Tiffany Young: It reminds of it like it has the same textures like a curtain. Ben Freedman: I like this shirt. Tiffany Young: No, no it’s actually — Ben Freedman: This is a Salvatore at 200th episode shirt. Tiffany Young: You know what that actually really is a nice shirt. Ben Freedman: It’s kind of like it’s like a Vegas shirt. Tiffany Young: It looks like shiny on there. It looks very Vegas, very Vegas and yeah it’s not bad. I like the texture. I think we don’t need this Tuxedo. Ben Freedman: Velvet is making a big comeback. Tiffany Young: It is Ben Freedman: And this is Velvet team. Tiffany Young: Oh, Velvet team. Oh, you know I think you’re going to wash and dry that. Ben Freedman: I think I can or if you wash you’re drying your car with it. Tiffany Young: Oh yeah, there you go. Ben Freedman: It sucks up eight times its weight in water.—people who sweat. Tiffany Young: Be careful when it rains. Ben Freedman: I think we are two minutes in we haven’t even mention the product yet. Tiffany Young: Well, actually this product we have never, we featured a lot of speakers but we’ve never featured a speaker system that was just operatable that the word by Bluetooth. Ben Freedman: That’s true. These are the Com One Bluetooth speakers. Tiffany Young: Which is just very cool. Ben Freedman: And you’ll notice I mean obviously the plug into the power and they also have a little control panel here, but there’s no iPod hooked up and there’s no iPod dock or you know jacks. There is a jack if you want to plug something with wire, but the whole point of the speakers is to use Bluetooth from your phone. Tiffany Young: Very cool. Ben Freedman: More likely because iPods don’t have Bluetooth but from the phone like this BlackBerry Curve to transmit the sound, so this can stay up high on a shelf in your house for they can be 3:03 remote you walk home and let’s say you want you play some music right so here so first you know here I am playing music just on the tone okay, you hear it. Okay, so that’s just a little speaker phone. Tiffany Young: It’s actually nice speaker for BlackBerry. Ben Freedman: It’s just a little speaker. Tiffany Young: It goes with your shirt. Ben Freedman: Now, I’m going to activate Bluetooth on the phone and it will connect to the speakers and it says activating and now I’ll play again. Tiffany Young: Okay, let’s check it out. Ben Freedman: Tune the volume up. Tiffany Young: What’s that? Yeah, it sounds pretty good. Ben Freedman: You’ll notice—look at that, and you can turn it down from here as well I can get the volume down here. Tiffany Young: So what happens when your phone rings? Ben Freedman: It pauses this just like without this it will pause this and it goes back to the regular handset. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: Yeah, this is not like a speakerphone, right. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: But you’ll notice here this is all done with Bluetooth. Tiffany Young: It’s very nice. Ben Freedman: So I can stop you know no wires. Tiffany Young: So any Bluetooth computer anything with Bluetooth that can— Ben Freedman: Well, I mean anything with Bluetooth speaker profile like fon instance the iPhone doesn’t work. The iPhone has Bluetooth, Apple, listening, the iPhone has Bluetooth but this will not work on the iPhone because you need a speaker profile not a headset profile. Do you understand? So the iPhone connects to a headset that will connect the speaker to play music back. Tiffany Young: He’s making back. You’re getting back with me about the shirt comment. Do you understand Tiffany? Ben Freedman: Alright, maybe the first time you’re talking about this is like Bluetooth. It’s not blue it’s black. Why is it called Bluetooth and what’s the tooth thing in—I have no idea why it’s Bluetooth. Tiffany Young: Hound tooth, hairtooth. Ben Freedman: Hey, that’s right, so this is very cool. Again, you can leave this up on your thing. It’s quite a bit arranged you know, I took this outside and you can take a look, so there you go. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: You know there’s no way you can stick it back in your pocket. If you want to change songs you just change songs on it and it will go on and off. Tiffany Young: Very cool. Ben Freedman: Yeah, I’ve got to tell you and I think the sound is pretty good for Bluetooth connection. Let’s turn up here the volume thing on the side there. Tiffany Young: Here we go, so this really works for—gosh it works my office because I’ve only got so much room and I have my speakers now on a shelf. The way I have to do it now as I’m bring in my iPod plug it in the speakers. Ben Freedman: You just can turn this off. Tiffany Young: And I mean but what I like to do I mean on my HP I’ve got headset profile I mean speaker profile. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: So I can—oh, that’s really great. Ben Freedman: By the way this thing also has a 3D button. Here’s a little controller that it comes with and you may notice there’s a little power volume and then a 3D button which I can turn on there. Tiffany Young: What’s the 3D button? — Ben Freedman: Well, it kind of ends like this page like a fake surround sound thing to the speakers. Tiffany Young: Not a real one. Ben Freedman: No. Tiffany Young: But a fake one. Ben Freedman: No, it’s just it adds this special dimension. If you like it it’s vague at the beginning. I think you know the real value is now quickly, how much? Tiffany Young: I knew you’re going to ask me that. I— Ben Freedman: You’ve hear them say here the quality. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: No sub-woofer here and then the nice thing is also they have some speaker cable, so you can put this somewhere and then not underneath your desk and then just have this little speakers. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: Which are very thin little speakers that go on top of your desk. Tiffany Young: Because of the new technology I’ll say 150. Ben Freedman: Actually they are about a 100 bucks. Tiffany Young: I was going to say a 100 but I think they are good. Ben Freedman: Actually you can find a more cheaper if you really, really search. Tiffany Young: That’s great. That’s teasing I was going to say 150 to go down to a 100 probably in a couple of months but yeah. Ben Freedman: Rating? Tiffany Young: For a 100 bucks five out of five yeah it’s a great system for a 100 bucks. Ben Freedman: I would have to agree. I‘ve got to tell you it paired with everything without a problem. I have no problem with the pairing it pairs in the moment you walk in a room with them. It’s fantastic. They sound good. They don’t sound boast good. Tiffany Young: Sure. Ben Freedman: But they sound good. Tiffany Young: Well, how much boast good can you have in an office anywhere you know I mean in your house? Ben Freedman: Yeah, and that’s right and sound pretty loud. Tiffany Young: I really like them. Ben Freedman: I mean they are not going to wake the neighbors but they are simply loud. Tiffany Young: Right, I really like the technology. Ben Freedman: So, five out of five for me too. Tiffany Young: Great idea. I love and what’s coming up in technology these days. Ben Freedman: Five out of five for Tiffany, five out of five for the Com One Bluetooth speakers. A great wireless system if your cell phone will play music. Tiffany Young: Yeah, a great value. Ben Freedman: And it supports that. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: And we have another segment coming up right after this quick blurb so please stay tune. And we are back and in the second segment today, two really cool new products, and the first one is this guy right here which looks like just a USB key right? Tiffany Young: Sure. Ben Freedman: You know you can take maybe this is a one gigabyte or you know a few gigabytes USB key. Tiffany Young: And there we go. Ben Freedman: And yeah, it spins around like that all around for the good folks at home. Tiffany Young: Here we go. Ben Freedman: And you can plug that into your laptop and this is actually Sprints. This is a USB modem for Sprint so modem and you plug this into your laptop and you have broadband access. Now this is what cool is printer as you know is one of the fastest data networks out there. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: And it’s 60 bucks a month. You plug this and you’ll get broadband and this is one of this new EVDO Revision A. Tiffany Young: So an upgrade from the old, old EVDO 1. Ben Freedman: The old EVDO 1 that a lot of laptops you’ll have Revision A: You plugs it into your laptop and you get really fast broadband access anywhere Sprint, anywhere Sprint has its network. Tiffany Young: Great. Ben Freedman: No not everywhere has the Revision A, so if you don’t have the Revision A you’ll get about 700 - 800 megabits. If you have the Revision A which we do here in Phoenix where we’re relocated, you plug this into your laptop and pretty much anywhere in Phoenix I get over a megabit I get 1.1, 1.2 megabits. Tiffany Young: Wow that’s great Ben Freedman: Now still as fast is my cable connection at home that’s about three megabits, so – Tiffany Young: So, what about a wireless connection now like a wireless router, wireless do you think of these now? Ben Freedman: Well, you know a regular wireless at home? Tiffany Young: At home network yeah. Ben Freedman: Yeah, so it’s still about a third— Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: Okay, because a wireless network from your computer to the router is way faster than anything cable does. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: So, if you have coaxial cable like we do here or Comcast and you can pay for faster but I generally get about three to four megabits from that while you do a speed test. This I almost always get a 1000 to 1112, really fast. It moves really fast. Tiffany Young: I want to – you know. Ben Freedman: Give them I want to say a 1000 megabits or 1000 kilobits. The dial up was 56. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: So, a dial of 56. Tiffany Young: Yeah, I remember that. Ben Freedman: This is a 1000. Tiffany Young: I think forever. Ben Freedman: That’s right. Tiffany Young: So, let me ask you this. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: What about the phone is modem because the mini is one that you can use your Sprint phone as modem. Ben Freedman: Like your good old central here. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: I don’t think the central does Revision A but it will do EVDO, so if you have a phone like this you probably don’t need one of these of course when you’re using this as a modem— Tiffany Young: You can’t be on the phone. Ben Freedman: You can’t be on the phone. Tiffany Young: Sure. Ben Freedman: So this is like for you who uses 8,000,000,000,000,000 minutes a month it could be a problem. Tiffany Young: You’re right, okay Ben Freedman: Now, here is the cool thing about that I like a lot about this is you know most of these modems come with the disc and you know that the disc include the drivers. Kind of cool about this it also has a couple of 100 megabytes of memory like a memory card. Tiffany Young: Very nice. Ben Freedman: And when you plug it in it comes up like a flash drive and all the drivers are right there. Tiffany Young: Nice. Ben Freedman: So let’s say I want to use your computer and I don’t have my computer but I have this. I can plug this into your computer and the files I need to install are all on the key or let’s say you go into a Kingkos and let’s stay on a strange place. Tiffany Young: Ride on. Ben Freedman: Or let’s say you know what I’m saying unless you do somebody’s portable computer you just plug this in and all the drivers are right there. Tiffany Young: I think I’ve spent a total of someone of the neighborhood of 5000 hours looking for drivers. Ben Freedman: Right. Tiffany Young: For staff. Ben Freedman: So, the drivers are on it and — Tiffany Young: Such that is a great idea. Ben Freedman: Also has built in GPS. Tiffany Young: Oh! Ben Freedman: So as long as you’re outside and it doesn’t work well inside. Tiffany Young: Yeah, great. Ben Freedman: For as long as you’re outside it will pick up the GPS signal and you can look for addresses and you’ll find in your gas station or hotel or whatever that posted up in Google maps. Tiffany Young: That is very cool. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: 60 bucks a month. It’s about a $100 dongle to buy. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: You need to buy to the whole two-year contract from that whole thing as well. Tiffany Young: What’s this for right here? Ben Freedman: That’s for the external antenna. Now I don’t know I haven’t seen at least on this Sprint side. They don’t make any antennas for it yet, but you can plug the antennas— Tiffany Young: Their plan is to do something about it. Ben Freedman: Their plan is well, maybe at least this is by Franklin wireless and so Franklin may make one. You can plug an antenna and right here for the modem and there’s another port here for the antenna for the GPS, so theoretically you can actually plug two antennas and one for Sprint and one for the GPS. Tiffany Young: Right! Ben Freedman: But I found it works well even without that. Now if that wasn’t cool enough, here’s another really cool gadget to goes with. Tiffany Young: For me it does work. Ben Freedman: This is from a company called Cradlepoint and this is the Cradlepoint what do they call it the Cradlepoint Cellular Router. Now let’s say that there’s four to five people in an office or in a car or let’s say we’re taking a bus ride somewhere really have one of these, right? Tiffany Young: I know. Ben Freedman: One of these. Tiffany Young: I know where you’re going. Ben Freedman: So, what we’re doing like you want to check your email. I give it to you while I check my email, no. You use a Cradlepoint cellular router. Tiffany Young: Nice. Ben Freedman: And here’s what you do in this thing plugs in like so. It’s going to ends up looking like this. I think they are small letters. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: Okay and now you just log with WI-FI, so you’re going to your computer you look you know under networks you’ll find the Cradlepoint network and you log on and we can all log on. Tiffany Young: But you have to have a power cord? Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: Okay, so you have them. Ben Freedman: It comes with the power cord but you can run this half of a card. This is regular at 12 volts or something I mean you can easily— Tiffany Young: Okay, so can you make it mobile? Ben Freedman: As far as it’s five volts so you need a little card adapter. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: But you could totally run off a car. You can run it of a portable battery. Tiffany Young: It’s great. Ben Freedman: Yeah, very easy. They have battery power one. This Cradlepoint does. Tiffany Young: To get to Starbucks. You know what don’t pay the collector of that network. Give me three bucks you can connect to mine. Ben Freedman: You could totally do that. You can go to Starbucks, set this right here and you have 10 people around you. You are all connect just for that and share that cellular connection. Tiffany Young: It’s very nice. Ben Freedman: Very cool it works very well, so if any of you who watch the show we were in Vegas a few weeks back and we were at the top of the Hilton, Vegas me and Andy Walker. Andy Walker and me and we were at the top of there and let me tell you know what they want 20 bucks a day for internet per laptop. Tiffany Young: Wow! Ben Freedman: So, Andy Walker and I were in the same room. We have to do that, so here’s what we did and next door were Sean—partner on the Lab Rat Show. I brought this with me and we’re way up high, so I’ve got a really good signal for the solitaire. I plug this guy in set it up with a password so other people couldn’t access it. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: I gave the password to Sean to Sean’s camera man to me and we all log on the four of us to this one guy. They we’re in the room. Tiffany Young: Perfect Ben Freedman: No problems and it was actually faster than the hotel’s connection. We should know on the hotel’s connection they had like it was a convention. Tiffany Young: They split it for a like a billion. Ben Freedman: Eight billion people. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: That’s right, all trying to surf porno at the same time. Tiffany Young: Well that will slow a network download anything that’s — Ben Freedman: It’s a technology convention. I think that’s right. Tiffany Young: You know. Ben Freedman: Well, I’m going to do my serious work and you know I can’t go on line. Tiffany Young: You don’t know if you don’t have that one for these days. I’m seeing even on construction site you know everybody has their computers with the wireless routers. Ben Freedman: Yeah, perfect for a construction site. Tiffany Young: And it makes me wonder driving by there. They are not even looking at the job. What are they really watching that I can— Ben Freedman: That was—of you anymore. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: Now they are — Tiffany Young: Yeah, what are they watching? You know imagine probably one in three is really watching porno. Ben Freedman: Yeah, so for anyone who does mobile or travel these two things together a very, very powerful. Tiffany Young: So how much is the router then? Ben Freedman: The router is a $140. Tiffany Young: Okay. Ben Freedman: A little more expensive than a regular router. Tiffany Young: So like 200th plus the service for that. Ben Freedman: Is this is a 140 this is about a 100 so about 250. Tiffany Young: 250. Ben Freedman: Yeah, I think I can get a four and then plus the service to 60 bucks a month from Sprint. Tiffany Young: Do you have to sign a contract? Ben Freedman: Yes you do. Tiffany Young: Cheers. Ben Freedman: Yup, I think you can get it every one year but then this is more, that’s for something, I don’t know. Tiffany Young: Right, is there worry when you do that? How technology changes? So, you know you worry about getting into a contract for two years and thinking, is it really going to be you know something I will use in two years? Ben Freedman: Yeah, but you know what with me it’s one of those is it going to pay for itself things. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: This pays for itself because I can get I can get online when I’m out traveling and that’s money in my pocket. Tiffany Young: Yeah, that’s a good deal. Ben Freedman: Also the cancellation fee is 175 bucks for Sprint, so worst case scenario you pay a 175 bucks. Tiffany Young: Right. Ben Freedman: I mean it’s bad. I don’t like it but it’s not the end of the world. Tiffany Young: End of the world right. Very nice. Ben Freedman: Yeah. Tiffany Young: Great, great idea and Sprint did a good job. I do like that Sprint even though they merged with the Nextel. Ben Freedman: This doesn’t come from the Sprint. This is separate. Tiffany Young: But Sprint offers their service. Nobody else does, right? Ben Freedman: Sprint offers these guys. That’s right. Tiffany Young: Yeah. Ben Freedman: Yeah, well no other people do. Horizon does but Sprint is definitely right now the fastest. Tiffany Young: Okay, so they are the best. Ben Freedman: They are the best. Tiffany Young: Leaders in their pack, so very nice. Ben Freedman: Well, that’s the only time we have for today but please visit our website www.neo-fight.tv. Leave us a comment. Do you have one? Are you in a Revision A area? Let us know your experiences, how fast? Tiffany Young: Yeah, that will be great. Ben Freedman: Are your speeds. Are they super fast? Do you use your phone all day? I don’t know. Tiffany Young: Unless they can email those to Ben. Ben Freedman: What’s your favorite site? No, don’t! Don’t do that out there. I have to delete those comments because we’re family friendly. I don’t want to lose that clean tag we have on iTunes. Tiffany Young: Is that nice for Ben to scream before you forward? Ben Freedman: Yeah, definitely, definitely and that’s all the time we have for today but if you have an extra 30 seconds take a look at this.