Bose Mobile On-Ear Headset - Black (41314)

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 4.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: B000X9DCJ4
• Item model number: ON-EAR
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 15, 2007

Product Description

Enjoy your music with quality audio performance and a comfortable fit. and never miss a call. The Bose(R) mobile on-ear headset lets you switch seamlessly between music and calls on your music-enabled mobile phone. Inline microphone, cable connector and adapters included. For a complete list of compatible mobile phones.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but they forgot the button!, June 6, 2008

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G. G. RIVAS "ggrhome" (Lebanon, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bose Mobile On-Ear Headset - Black (41314) (Personal Computers)

I like Bose products and have several. Yes, true audiophiles sneer and yes, the brand is overhyped but they work for me! The sound quality is as good as I can hear and the fit and finish is above most other products. I have returned several competitors' products.

But they left out a critical feature. The iPhone headset has inline mic and a little button built into the "bulge" where the mic is. This button allows you take an incoming call or to pause your music. The Bose people left the button out -- the music ramps down when you dial a call but, this is the key thing, you have to take the iPhone out of your pocket to answer a call or to pause the music. What were they thinking?

So if you're cutting the grass and taking advantage of the noise cancelling feature and your wife tries to speak you have to: (1) pull the phone from your pocket or case, (2) swipe your finger to activate the screen, (3) switch to iTunes and your song, (4)hit the pause screen button. Is your wife more patient than mine?

Shure makes a replacement cable (just like Bose) that includes a button. It's a little bigger and clunkier than Apple's barely noticeable squeeze-the-bulge button, but hey, it's there. Bose does not include a button on their replacement cable either.

This is what happens when you don't have good user trials. A major mistake on an otherwise fine product. I cannot recommend this product to anyone who has ever been interrupted or received a call while listening to music. Which is pretty much everybody. Wait for the next generation...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Product, April 7, 2008

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Glenn A. Quinlan "GQ" (Basseterre, St. Kitts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bose Mobile On-Ear Headset - Black (41314) (Personal Computers)

This headset is multi-dimensional. It has an attachment for my Treo 680 (and lots of other phones). The attachments are labelled with a square, circle, etc for easy identification. The headset comes with a nice hard case which fits. Bottom line is it works with my computer, works with my Treo 680 and it is an excellent noise cancelling headphone for plane rides, etc. It's a BOSE so the build quality is excellent and the music reproduction is very good. The manual suggests that you not use any audio enhancement, and for the most part I agree. Of course it depends on how the music was ripped in the first place. BOSE is an expensive brand, but I tried the more economical in-ear headsets from other brands (about 5 in the last 12 months)and they just don't work for me. If BOSE makes a WIRELESS headset with the same specifications I'll be buying. The built in-line microphone is sensitive enough and my callers could hear me better when I used the headset as opposed to when I did not

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not iPhone 4 compatible but not Bose fault! (3G, 3GS, OldG works fine), July 27, 2010

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Trent D. Ditto "tditto" (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bose Mobile On-Ear Headset - Black (41314) (Personal Computers)

I was quite thrilled with these headphones when I had my iPhone 3G but having since upgraded to the iPhone 4 I can tell you that these Bose headphones are not compatible with the Apple iPhone 4. I am still giving this headset a 4 star review because I know this is NOT BOSE's FAULT. >It's Apple fault.< If you search the Apple forums you will find that nearly all 3rd party headphones with mic's have become incompatible with the iPhone 4. I suggest that if you are in the market for headphones+mic for your iPhone 4 to be sure that the company you buy from states very clearly that they support the iPhone 4.