Comments on: Zivio Boom Wireless Bluetooth Headset

By: dan briscoe

dan briscoe — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:47:28 +0000

I have had my zivio for one year now and have tried many others (I still have a pandering for the over the ear design as those types will simply never come off). The sound quality on the zivio is spectacular and since the mic is so close to your mouth it is 26 db more clear than all the other brands with all their noise cancellation. No matter how good the noise cancellation is, the mic on all other units points to your hands, so no matter what you are doing, the person on the other end hears everything. Doors closing, paper russling, dish washing. However with the zivio, the mic points at your mouth, not your activity. Yes it is difficult to get it to stay on your ear without fanaggling it for quite some time. Yes they need improvement in this area of their design, but god forbid in this instant gratification society we should spend a few days getting it adjusted correctly to fit on your ear. It is so adjustable, that finding the right position for everything can try your patience. But once found it works well. So if you sit in an office all day with no activities on your part I would argue almost any headset would work, but if you are like me and on the phone while driving, bicyling, walking, carrying out the trash, etc. Then this headset is amazing. I love it.

By: William Morris

William Morris — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:28:15 +0000

This is the first head set I’ve used that I’ve never had complaints from people I’m calling. I don’t have any trouble hearing others either. It has a magnetic button with an ear hook that attaches to the back of the head set. The hook slides through the rubber button and is supposed to take the weight of the unit. For the first week it worked OK but soon the metal shaft got smooth and the hole in the black rubber piece got slightly enlarged and started sliding right off button. The head set is high quality metal but though comfortable it is relatively heavy. The weight of the head set pulls it right off my ear. Until it slides off my ear the weight doesn’t bother me. The Joby comes with 6 rubber ear pieces 3 black rubber ones which don’t seem to fit the unit and 3 white silicone ones that are either too small or too large for me. I have average ears, not small and not large. I’ve given up using it after two weeks and am looking for another unit that has a boom and doesn’t come off my ear so easily. My $20.00 Plantronics 220 head set stays on no matter what I do and I figure this $130.00 Joby Zivio should be equally able to keep up with me but it doesn’t. In my world if it doesn’t stay on it’s worthless, which is a crying shame since it works so well otherwise.

By: Gary Burya

Gary Burya — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:20:15 +0000

I need a GOOD QUALITY sound on the mic because I use my Cell phone to do Business Conference calls… I am tempted to get some goddy thing that looks like what you would see the coach at a pro football game wearing, but if this can produce the quality I need then I would much prefer it… however how am I to know about what the quality is?

Can anybody tell me about the sound quality. I have one now from Plantronics which does NOT have a boom mic on it, and it claimed to be THE BEST sound quality of any on the market when I got it. But everybody tells me I sound like I am talking in a barrel!! Yet it claims to have duall mic technology so one can cancel out surrounding sounds while the other picks up my voice. That don’t seem to happen!!

Any comments on this would be appreciated!

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By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:30:30 +0000

The Zivio Boom has long since been a favorite around our office, and is in fact our editors Bluetooth headset of choice that he uses daily, unless he is testing a new one. And it has some of the best sound on the audio tests we did of it over all the other headsets on our site. Hear the Zivio Boom audio test.

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