Oakley O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear Review

It has been months since Oakley together with Motorola came up with the Oakley O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear. With a pricetag of roughly $250, it can stream music wirelessly from your compatible mobile phone or portable music player, and it could use O ROKR with your iPod by adding the optional NAVIPLAY adapter (which will cost you $99 more).

The features don’t end there, it can switch between stereo music and mobile calls, control and music streaming needs no cords to dangle and tangle, it has an adjustable speaker booms for meeting your desired sounds, it could get up to 5 hours of listen/talk time and more than 100 hours of standby time, and it is durable, lightweight thanks to its O MATTER frame.

I don’t know about you but if I ever wear this one, I would as if I look like Dog The Bounty Hunter (ha,ha). Enough about that, if you are thinking of getting one you might wanna know this product a better by reading a review. Well a review from iLounge’s Jeremy Horwitz have these to say about the Oakley contraption:

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It has been months since Oakley together with Motorola came up with the Oakley O ROKR Bluetooth Eyewear. With a pricetag of roughly $250, it can stream music wirelessly from your compatible mobile phone or portable music player, and it could use O ROKR with your iPod by adding the optional NAVIPLAY adapter (which will cost you $99 more).

The features don’t end there, it can switch between stereo music and mobile calls, control and music streaming needs no cords to dangle and tangle, it has an adjustable speaker booms for meeting your desired sounds, it could get up to 5 hours of listen/talk time and more than 100 hours of standby time, and it is durable, lightweight thanks to its O MATTER frame.

I don’t know about you but if I ever wear this one, I would as if I look like Dog The Bounty Hunter (ha,ha). Enough about that, if you are thinking of getting one you might wanna know this product a better by reading a review. Well a review from iLounge’s Jeremy Horwitz have these to say about the Oakley contraption:

“Pros: A combination of high-quality Oakley sunglasses with a very comfortable stereo Bluetooth wireless headset, capable of running off of rechargeable battery power for 5 hours. Works with both iPods and cell phones, assuming theyÂ’re Bluetooth-equipped. Typically good sound quality by Bluetooth 1.2 standards, boasts solid audio receiving performance to distance of 20 feet without major interruptions, max of 30 foot distance when standing still. Sound quality of phone calls is very good on both sides of conversation.”

“Cons: Separate iPod transceiver is required, at a cost of $99. Styling and pricing will limit technologyÂ’s appeal to specific audiences. Intended primarily for use outdoors, and not as comfortably used indoors. Inner labels of track forward/backward buttons are reversed.”

As with the pricing, Horwitz said that “OakleyÂ’s $249 price tag clearly isnÂ’t for everyone…What you get for the price is roughly equivalent to a $40 pair of earbuds, a $50 Bluetooth receiver with rechargeable battery, a $90 pair of Gascans, a $20 wall charger, and the included $5 microfiber cleaning bag, which when summed up falls a bit short of O ROKRÂ’s MSRP. The separately-sold naviPlay doesnÂ’t help matters; that brings the total cost for an iPod user up to only slightly under $350.”

“But when you begin to factor in the fact that the earbuds, Bluetooth, and sunglasses have all been merged into a single device thatÂ’s easier to carry than all three items separately, and the headsetÂ’s athletic applications, youÂ’ll realize that this is necessarily a niche product, but one thatÂ’s undoubtably convenient enough to merit some design premium…”

He has a point there. This baby is for those who really has money to shell out, afterall convenience and coolness doesn’t come cheap in this world. Now, if you don’t mind carrying all these stuff, and you believe that your $249 would be wasted if you buy this one, then this is definitely not for you. In the end, the decision is up to you.

Via ilounge