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Jabra FREEWAY Bluetooth Speakerphone (Black, Retail Packaging)
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Technical Details
- Speakerphone for the car with rich and crisp sound from 3 speakers and Virtual Surround sound
- Use your voice to make and take calls completely hands-free; announces the name of the incoming caller
- A2DP streaming for playback of music, podcasts and directions from GPS applications
- FM Transmitter sends music and calls from mobile phone to car radio
- Up to 14 hours of talk time, up to 960 hours (40 days) of standby time, podcasts and directions from GPS applications
- Auto on/off, Advanced Multiuse for connection to 2 Bluetooth devices at same time, audio streaming (A2DP) for playback of music,
- Auto on/off, Advanced Multiuse for connection to 2 Bluetooth devices at same time, audio streaming (A2DP) for playback of music, podcasts and directions from GPS applications
- Rich and crisp sound with 3 speakers, HD Voice Ready, Virtual Surround Sound and dual microphone background noise reduction technology
- Up to 14 hours talk time and up to 40 days standby time
- Use your voice to make, answer, end, redial or reject calls.
- Use your voice to make, answer, end, redial or reject calls. With Voice Assist subscription, you can also send and receive text messages and emails, post updates to Twitter and Facebook
- Voice Guidance provides caller ID, spoken battery level, pairing instructions and Bluetooth connection status
- With Voice Assist subscription, you can also send and receive text messages and emails, post updates to Twitter and Facebook
Product Description of Jabra FREEWAY Bluetooth Speakerphone (Black, Retail Packaging)
A revolutionary new speakerphone that features a groundbreaking speaker system, the Jabra FREEWAY makes hands-free calls and music sound better than ever. The first speakerphone to have a 3-speaker stereo system, HD Voice Ready technology and Virtual Surround Sound, the Jabra FREEWAY produces crisp audio from both voice and music. And with Noise Blackout Extreme dual microphone technology, you can say goodbye to unwanted background noise. It also provides unique versatility as both a device to be used inside or outside the car and for both calls as well as listening to music with any device--an iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, MP3 players, or video game console.
The Jabra FREEWAY is extraordinarily easy to operate. That's because with the Jabra FREEWAY, your voice is in control. The voice guidance will talk you through setup and pairing. It will also announce the name of the incoming callers, ask if you want to accept their calls, battery level and connection status. Simply use your voice to make, answer, end, redial, or reject calls--while keeping both hands safely on the wheel.
The Jabra FREEWAY includes a free downloadable 1-year subscription of Voice Assist (a $59 value), a voice controlled app that can be used with any type of mobile phone or IP-connected device. With Voice Assist, calls and commands can be performed all by voice controlled communication, allowing users to call, send or respond to emails and text messages, or post to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter--all by voice.
If you use two mobile phones, the Jabra FREEWAY will pair with both simultaneously. There is no need to press buttons to turn the Jabra FREEWAY on or off. It automatically turns on when you get into your car and off when you get out.
The Jabra FREEWAY was named a winner of the 2011 red dot awards for product design, and was also given a Best of CTIA Wireless 2011 award in the accessory category.
You place a call by tapping the Voice button. Wait for the Jabra FREEWAY to say "Say a Command". Then you can say "Phone commands" to activate voice dial on your phone, you can say "Redial" to redial the last number you called or "Call back" to call back the last call you received on the Jabra FREEWAY.
* Phone dependent
Metal clip on the back attaches to your car's sun visor.
Makes hands-free calls sound better than ever--and
makes controlling them effortless (see larger image).
makes controlling them effortless (see larger image).
The Jabra FREEWAY includes a free downloadable 1-year subscription of Voice Assist (a $59 value), a voice controlled app that can be used with any type of mobile phone or IP-connected device. With Voice Assist, calls and commands can be performed all by voice controlled communication, allowing users to call, send or respond to emails and text messages, or post to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter--all by voice.
If you use two mobile phones, the Jabra FREEWAY will pair with both simultaneously. There is no need to press buttons to turn the Jabra FREEWAY on or off. It automatically turns on when you get into your car and off when you get out.
The Jabra FREEWAY was named a winner of the 2011 red dot awards for product design, and was also given a Best of CTIA Wireless 2011 award in the accessory category.
Key Features
- Industry leading rich and crisp sound with 3 speakers and Virtual Surround Sound.
- Keep conversations clear with acoustically optimized design featuring HD Voice ready, dual microphones, echo and noise cancellation.
- Use your voice to make, answer, end, redial and reject calls.
- With a free Voice Assist subscription, send and receive text messages and emails, post updates to Facebook and Twitter.
- Voice guidance provides pairing instructions, caller ID, connection status, and battery level.
- FM Transmitter sends music and calls from mobile phone to car radio.
- A2DP streams music, podcasts and turn-by-turn GPS directions from your phone.
- Control music player using AVRCP remote controls.
- Turns on and off automatically using the built-in motion sensor.
- Multipoint--connects to 2 active Bluetooth devices at the same time.
- Dedicated mute button, on/off switch and large easy to access volume controls.
- Easy to install--just pair to your phone and clip onto sun visor.
- Firmware updates and additional languages available for download at jabra.com.
- Car charger with USB cable so you can also charge it from your PC.
- Up to 14 hours of talk time and 40 days of standby time.
- See a larger schematic image of all controls.
Ground-breaking 3-speaker system for superior audio quality.
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Can be used for both calls as well as listening to music with any device.
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Using Your Speakerphone
When you have an incoming call, you will hear "Call from ...." Say "Answer" to accept the call or "Ignore" to reject it. You can also tap the Answer/End button to accept and double tap to reject incoming calls.You place a call by tapping the Voice button. Wait for the Jabra FREEWAY to say "Say a Command". Then you can say "Phone commands" to activate voice dial on your phone, you can say "Redial" to redial the last number you called or "Call back" to call back the last call you received on the Jabra FREEWAY.
* Phone dependent
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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
Love it! Turns your car into a luxury.By Kiyo M.
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X6DTVSLI942T I don't give 5 stars that often, but I love this thing.
The calls are very clear as advertised and they can hear me fine as well. It's fantastic being able to finally answer calls hands free in the car; no having to have an earpiece or anything.
I love that you can connect two Bluetooth devices at once; I don't have a smartphone, but I can connect my basic cellphone with Bluetooth to this device, as well as my iPod Touch to send music to it!
The size makes it great to take it with you anywhere and use it as a speakerphone/speakers at home.
It looks great on the sun visor of the car, as well on a desk.
There is also a built-in FM transmitter. Personally, the transmitter doesn't seem that much of an advancement to send a clear strong signal than other FM transmitters that I've owned (still getting a static or fuzzy sound on a higher volume), but still, it is definitely a nice bonus to have!
The device is also firmware upgradeable if there are any improvements in the future.
It uses a Micro USB to charge.
If you ever feel like using your cellphone in the car, when you think about the safety and traffic ticket costs, this product is a no brainer worthy investment. The versatility of this product being suitable for home use just makes it even better. Fantastic design.
Recommended.
41 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
Jabra Freeway is very sleek; VoiceAssist is great!By Kathleen San Martino
The Jabra Freeway is very sleek and comes with a free and optional one-year subscription to VoiceAssist.
Setting the unit up was easy.
1. Before I could use the Jabra Freeway, I charged it for two hours using the supplied USB cable with car charger.
2. Next I made sure the cell phone was Bluetooth-enabled and turned on the Jabra unit.
3. It immediately went into pairing mode. As it is pairing with the phone device, the prompts on the phone needed to be followed and the supplied security code had to be entered (not everyone will have to enter a security code; it depends on the phone)
4. After this I began making and answering calls using voice commands, checking the battery power of the unit, etc. To make a call, I had to press the Voice button to wake up the unit and say "phone commands." If I was unsure of how to speak to the unit I would say "What can I say?" and it would give me options.
What I found very frustrating was:
1. Once I was done with a call, ending the call is not hands free. I couldn't say "hang-up, or cancel, or end" because that doesn't work. Instead I had to press the "answer end button" (which is the "phone icon" on the Jabra device) or end the call via the phone end button.
2. I also disliked having to press the Voice button every time I wanted to make a call because this meant it was not totally hands free. The only hands free part is if someone is calling you, the unit then automatically awakes and you can tell it to "answer" or "ignore" the incoming call.
3. Many times I asked the unit to make a call. Twice it brought up the EZ tip calculator, once it brought up the one-minute beep "application," and another time it brought up some other application on the phone that I didn't ask for. Another time I tried to call someone and instead it brought up the address book and rambled off both the mobile and work number without giving me the option to dial either one.
What I really loved was the optional VoiceAssist package even though I had difficulty getting this set up because the code to redeem the free one-year subscription was hidden underneath a sticker either Amazon or the manufacturer put on the box. However, VoiceAssist has the best live customer service around. In fact we called each other almost five times to get this situation resolved in a few hours. Hopefully, new purchasers won't have this experience where the offer code is hidden between stickers and impossible to read even after being held up to the light.
Below are the steps I took to get VoiceAssist to work:
1. I had to first redeem the free offer code on the box by going to [....].
2. Once signed in online to [....], I imported all my Gmail contacts into the VoiceAssist application and also set up a connection to my review_maven twitter account ([....]).
3. Once registered and after I cleaned up the Gmail import which had about an 85% accuracy rate, I then needed to program the number of 949-257-0923 under the name of VoiceAssist into the Bluetooth phone.
4. After this I had a lot of fun:
- I used the Jabra unit to call VoiceAssist.
- Once connected I used another set of VoiceAssist commands to "call" people in my contact list (they had to have a phone # in the Gmail contact listed that was imported), to "post to Twitter," to "read my e-mail" on Gmail--which it read very well (except it said it couldn't read the pictures), and to send an email, which it sent okay though some of my message was garbled. However, since an MP3 was attached to the email, the person receiving it could play that to get the full message.
- The two posts to my Twitter account were okay, buy it got VoiceAssist wrong and typed voices instead and it typed Jabra as Java. You can look on the review_maven account to see the posts for May 28. 2011.
I didn't have the phone functionality to try the FM Transmitter or play music features of the Jabra device.
Below are some of the key features that I liked and some things I disliked:
PROS:
1. The Jabra unit is pretty easy to set up
2. The Jabra Freeway has a long battery life (about 14 to 17 hours)
3. You can pair two Bluetooth phones to the device with the last phone paired being the primary one
4. Jabra Freeway comes with a car charger for charging in your vehicle or with a 12Volt Battery Pack; the USB cable that is used to plug in the car adapter can be used without the adapter for charging with your PC
5. A free one-year subscription to VoiceAssist is supplied with purchase
6. Voice Assist understands commands better than the Jabra unit itself
7. I could check and send email and post to Twitter with VoiceAssist (Posting to Facebook is also possible.)
8. VoiceAssist provides SUPERB customer service.
CONS:
1. VoiceAssist setup was difficult and the instructions that came with the device did not tell you to program in the telephone number to VoiceAssist. Instead the Jabra instructions tell you to call VoiceAssist making you assume it's already pre-programed in the device.
2. Managing your contacts online in the VoiceAssist web site is somewhat cumbersome as the tool is in its infancy. For instance, every time I edited one of my 100+ contacts it kept going back to the first one after I saved the edit--then I had to scroll through the entire list again to go back to where I wanted to in the contact list.
3. Answer/End button is not intuitive on the Jabra unit (it's the phone icon on the Jabra Freeway); although the instructions do tell you where it's located.
4. The Jabra Freeway did not always understand my voice commands Voice Assist understood my commands much better but that still was not perfect)
5. Jabra is from the UK and only an automated help line is provided along with a website. Other than this you can send an email and wait for a response--no live support here
In summary, although Jabra will work with any Bluetooth phone, I did not feel I could get it to work exceptionally well with the Verizon LG phone I tried it with. I cannot be sure whether it was because of my or my boyfriend's voices (as we both tried it), the phone, or just the functionality of the device. Despite this, the Jabra Freeway is a very sleek unit and I felt that it responded better the more familiar I got with the device. In addition, the other reviewers are raving about the Freeway. Although VoiceAssist was not perfect, I absolutely loved that optional add-on.
Updated May 30, 2011 - I sent an email to Jabra with two simple questions to see how responsive their email support was and I can tell you it's great. I sent it over the weekend and got a response this morning. The only thing that wasn't great was that one of my simple questions was answered wrong. I had asked where the answer/end button was and according to the manual it is the phone icon on the Jabra device; however the reponse I got was to "Slide the On/Off power switch to turn the speakerphone on or off" so the question was either misunderstood or the tech did not know the answer. I think it's the former.
Updated November 7, 2011 - I recommended this to a former colleague and this is what he said about the device verbatim. "Regarding the Jabra device, it has worked very well. I will admit, I have not used any of the advanced features much (other than initially playing with them) as honestly I have not needed them. It has strictly been used as a straight bluetooth device and for that purpose it has worked extremely well. The speaker quality is above and beyond competing devices and the functionality (recognizing bluetooth connections regularly, turning off when it doesn't detect a device, etc) are features that are useful and allow it to stick out from the pack of competing devices. Overall, it has proven useful when I needed it."
20 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Bluetooth/Cellphone use just improved again.....By Careful shopper
They just keep cranking out improvements for Bluetooth users these days...
Right up front I have to say I was very surprised to hear how clear & loud this speakerphone is, one of my main concerns was being able to hear it well in the car, but does not seem to be a problem at all.
Although, I'm sure there could be times with the window open in traffic that nothing would be loud enough.
Unit comes with the "help" voice turned on and will get you going even without reading the manual. Then the built in voice will tell you what is going on when you use the Freeway... you can even ask for a list of what you can ask. You CAN turn this feature off if you don't like it.
Worked so well in the car that I don't want to leave it there and brought it in the house to use as a speakerphone inside also. Range is the same 30ft as most all other Bluetooth items.
Happy to say, Jabra is still using their dual microphone noise reduction feature to cut background noise.
Had to get used to the fact that you need to speak to the "Freeway" with commands and then to your phone to use voice commands your phone has on it. Nothing bad, but throws you at first if you are used to going directly to your phone. Saying to the Freeway unit "Phone Commands" will have it open my phones voice command center and then my phone will ask for a command as normal.
The key to hearing stereo music through the Freeway is if your music player/phone has A2DP or not.
All the latest equipment has it, but some slightly older ones might not, so you might not be able to stream music and podcasts to the Freeway.
Also can make connections with your GPS unit if it has A2DP. Many combos possible, GPS, Phones, computers etc.
Not sure about the need for "Voice Assist" subscription (comes with one year free) but was good to find that you still have voice commands built in to use without using the "Voice Assist".
If you subscribe you can also do text and Email by voice, plus post to Facebook and Twitter if you really want this. No download required.
Good for some I guess, and much better than texting with hands while driving of course.
Also, it seems your subscription is not limited to just one device and you can use any of your phones with it. May very well be some restrictions in that regard but I am not going to subscribe to the service at this point in time. Best to visit the Voice Assist web site for more information on their service....Be sure to read the FAQ page on the VoiceAssist web site.
It has a USB connection so unit can have new firmware downloaded and installed if it ever becomes needed. Also charges through the USB plug either with the included auto adapter, or with USB on PC.
One thing I'm reading and I'm not sure about is the tech specs for max temperature of 113 degrees F and Min of 14 degrees F. I do believe it can hit 113 degrees pretty easy in a closed car in the Summer.
And for some users, 14 degrees F MIGHT be too common in the car overnight. Not saying it's a problem, but be aware of the numbers.
Wish I could say the FM transmission to your radio is greatly improved, but seems to be about the same as older releases of any brand. Again, this could vary with radios and FM areas etc.
As with other Jabra items, you can download a PDF user manual at their web site to review before purchase.
Not in use all that long here yet so will be happy to report back with any additional findings, good or bad.
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