Bluetooth earphones, they are compact, wireless, do their job well to answer calls but listening to music hasn’t been a very smooth experience. Sennheiser has gone ahead & released the first un tethered Kleer wireless ear buds. Kleer is a new wireless technology which after the initial experience can easily be called as a true Bluetooth competitor. The MX W1 uses a transmitter that plugs into your MP3 player’s headphone jack and sends wireless audio to the two “receiver” earpieces, which are 20 by 34 by 30mm each. The earphones come with a carrying case that doubles as a charger, and it is possible to recharge the transmitter and receiver simultaneously via a connecting cable, without ever removing the transmitter from the player. (Early artwork of the device shows a transmitter that not only connects to the headphone jack but can be attached to a player via something akin to an armband.) What’s more, the charger can hold a charge of its own, portably, so that you can recharge your earphones on the go at least twice.
The transmitter can also send wireless audio to two sets of earphones simultaneously. Provided both listeners are wearing MX W1 earphones, they can each listen to the audio output from a single iPod, for example . At last year’s CES, Kleer announced a partnership with RCA, which used its wireless earphone technology (which operates over 2.4 GHz) in the RCA Jet Stream. The results were not impressive—the player was not well received by PC Magazine—but the Kleer technology showed promise. Now, with Sennheiser onboard, the world will finally get to hear the technology through a quality set of headphones instead of the Jet Stream earbuds. Is Kleer a true contender to replace the (so far ) lousy audio performance of Bluetooth? No details on price yet, but the MXW1 should be available in May 2008.
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