Jabra Eclipse Review
Jabra's Stone line of Bluetooth headsets has placed design over performance for a few years now. That trade-off appears once again in the Jabra Eclipse ($129.99), a cute little headset with a comfortable fit, but difficult controls and troubled voice quality. You'll get a lot more for your money with our Editors' Choice, the Plantronics Voyager 5200 ($99.87 at Amazon) .
Design and BatteryThe Eclipse ($84.95 at Amazon) is the best-looking headset I've seen recently. Nestled in a two-inch-wide matte egg of a case, it's a lone black eartip with a 1.75-inch, slightly angled boom coming off of it. It comes with four different-sized pairs of gel eartips, but I found the default one snug and very comfortable. That said, if you insist on an earhook, this isn't your headset.
The headset lives in its egg-like case when you're not using it. It charges in the case, which has a standard micro USB port and serves as an external battery. The little headset itself lasted for 3 hours, 44 minute...
The Jabra Eclipse is a super-small Bluetooth headset, but it's hard to control, and too dependent on how and where you hold your phone.
Tiny; Great voice quality when close to the phone; Charging case doubles as backup battery
Severe garble issues when phone was in bag while testing; Little noise cancellation; No physical buttons