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Lobie Ear Things Hold Earbuds Outside Ears
Posted by Jason Chen at 5:10 AM on October 3, 2007
These Lobies are probably the worst idea we've heard in a while. They're made for people who don't like having earbuds inside their ears, but still want to use earbuds for headphones. It wraps around hte earbuds and over your ear, essentially turning your earbuds into over-the-ear earphones that you can buy right now. The only reason why someone would use this is if they had some $300 Shure headphones that they don't want to get rid of, but the mere fact that you stick the headphones into some kind of cushioned gel surely reduces sound quality to a point where you can't tell anyway. But we can't say for certain unless we test them for ourselves. [MyLobie via Yahoo]
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David D.
Posted October 3, 2007 3:16 PM
The people in this category need to get the Bang and Olufsen A8 earphones. Ok, so they cost a bit but they look good, sound awesome, and you can have them resting just on your ear to avoid the ear bud pain.
Mark Boley
Posted October 5, 2008 3:57 PM
I have an HTC Tytn which i regularly use as both my phone and my mp3 player. You can buy comfortable headsets for music players, but you cannot buy any comfortable headsets with microphones for use as both a handsfree for your phone and a headset for stereo music playing. The only option (so far) is the big bluetooth headphones which need separate chargeing and are large to carry around - or earbuds... and I hate earbuds. We tried surgery to meld a handsfree to a headset - we weren't clever enough to make it work. So we were very hopeful when we found the lobie - It's comfortable, it's functional and it's not that hard on the eyes (I got the clear). I highly recommend this product to anyone who wants to make their handsfree earbuds comfortable.
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