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are these a Best Buy in neckband
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headphones let's find
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out Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at neck band headphones what's a
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neckband headphone has a darn good
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question I'm looking at these get them
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out of my ears this let me get this off
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my neck actually this is the smartomi
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ha1 and this is what's known known as a
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neckband headphone the idea is that all
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the electronics all the smarts all the
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weight is actually sitting on your neck
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and then you have these nice simple
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little earbud type pieces that go in
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your ears and of course it's running
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Bluetooth so there's no wire connecting
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it to your device and as you can see it
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has magnets so if we get things uh we
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can just do it manually so the actual
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earbud pieces will connect but but more
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importantly where that's beneficial is
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they also actually will drop and stay in
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the base unit so that makes it where
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on they're not flopping all over the
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place if you're not listening now
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there's a little thing you can pull up
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to make the wire a little more snug and
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as you can see they're very flexible so
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they're very transportable and very
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portable now when fully charged these
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will give you 12 hours of listening and
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here's the kind of crazy thing they only
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have 150 milliamp battery that's tiny
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your cell phone is 10 to 20 times that
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size but these just don't take that much
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energy and there are some things about
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these I'm sorry this is the smartomi hap
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one we already said that there are some
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things about it I really like one of
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which is there's a vibrate feature so if
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I have it on and I have an incoming call
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it will vibrate so I will know the call
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is coming and then it's really easy you
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tap on your phone and you're talking now
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I tried it out and the person at the
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other end said I sounded good but wasn't
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super loud okay so the units have built
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in what they call cvc6.0
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um noise cancelling of course there's a
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microphone so you can actually take
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calls and talk to people and it's
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running Bluetooth 4.1 and smartomi says
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it has apx which unfortunately is not
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compatible with your iPhone but a lot of
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android devices have apx it gives you
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more Dynamic Headroom better sounding
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music and such but here's the problem I
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had with these they don't sound very
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good so they work great for phone calls
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this could be a terrific if you're on
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the phone a lot this could be a terrific
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way to do that and the audio is
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certainly good enough for you to be able
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to for example listen while you're
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gardening or something but I have so
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many different audio gear or devices
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that I just was pretty underwhelmed with
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these there's no base there's you know
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some mid-range it's just the whole
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thing's really biased to the highend in
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terms of its sound now it comes with
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multiple ear tips so like every other
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device that has those I encourage you to
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experiment with different sizes and a
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larger ear tip generally gives you
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better sound and more of a rich and full
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sound cuz it's covering more of your
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eard drum so or your ear canal actually
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um and so that gives it a chance to give
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you better sound reproduction but
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whatever I did even adjusting the EQ on
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the device that I was using for music
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Source nothing really gave me
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particularly great audio sound now for
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some people that might not be that big a
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deal you might not be that critical a
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listener and they're certainly quite
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functional and they're you know good for
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the price they weigh less than 1 lb
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they're 7 oz which is super light and
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it's actually aluminum and a sort of
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brushed rubber so the materials are
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really nice it doesn't feel super
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plasticky and as I said it has these
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sort of Mag locks now some of the other
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devices in this neck band category
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actually have retractable wires and
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that's kind of a neat idea um this
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obviously like this is not optimal for
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you to leave in your bag things are
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going to get caught but on the other
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hand it's awful easy to throw this into
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a tiny little bag and keep this with you
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at all times or of course as it's
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designed to be keep it around your neck
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so what else can I tell you about it
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well wait before I tell you anything
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else about it let me just say do me a
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favor click the Subscribe button thank
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you awesome now the only other thing I
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need to tell you about these smartomi
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hap1 neckband headphones is that they
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amazon.com it's a good price These are
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nice devices and there's a lot of
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different devices in this category so I
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would definitely encourage you to
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experiment and to do a little bit of
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homework cuz these might work for you
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but they might not my personal
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experience is that I wasn't very
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impressed with the music capabilities
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but it was quite functional for phone
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calls so this is Dave Taylor and I'll
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catch you in my next video
