so today I'm going to be unboxing the blue ant S1 this is a Bluetooth car kit
and it is a handsfree device that basically just allows you to drive in
your car without using your hands on your cell phone now with the local laws
changing these have become a very hot product category because come the New
Year everyone will be required to use one legally in order to talk on their
phone while they're driving so let's have a look at some of the features that make the S1 a particularly good value
first of all you can talk handsfree okay very good it supports voice dialing as
well as voice answering it is multi-point so that means if you have
one of these in your car you can actually have two different people with
their phones uh mounted to it and then whichever one Rings you can answer that
phone that's very convenient has noise and Echo cancellation Bluetooth 2.0 you
can stream music from your phone it operates up to 10 M from the phone and
if you have a 10 m long car then yeah I
mean okay that should basically be all you really need okay up to 15 hours of
talk time and8 hours of sorry 800 hours of standby so let's get this open and
have a quick look now I also want to do a quick video outlining the uh setup
procedure for this but let's have just a short look at the unit itself if I could
just get the Box open then that would work really really really well okay so
I've actually used one of these before although it wasn't an S1 but I found it
was uh these visor mounted kits are an incredibly effective way of mounting the
handsfree in your kit in a way that it can actually hear you and you can hear
the speaker clearly without window noise affecting it okay so first of all it
comes with a charger so this is just a standard wall jack to USB 5vt charger so
that means you could probably charge it and I'm going to say with 99% certainty
you could charge it if you just plugged it into your computer with a USB cable
so let's have a look at the documentation that comes with it first
of all we have okay wow there's like four different things in here S1 okay so
this gives you a brief overview of the unit itself s so you can see that we've
got the speaker the Bluetooth light the microphone the charger port and/ reject
button volume up and down and the multi-function button so this is onof
pairing answering calls voice dialing Redal and audio transfer Okay so we've
got all that then you've got a basic manual showing you how to do pretty much
everything you need to do so it's a quick start guide then we have that but
in French all right and then we have a warranty information card and then
finally last but not least we have the S1 itself so let me just see if I can
figure out how to get this out of here oh that's um I may not be able to get
this out because I'm just not that clever some days and oh there we go okay
so the clip comes off here at least it's
supposed to I think yeah clip comes the
clip comes off and
then the clip comes off awesome I didn't
break it okay so the clip comes off and this is the clip that you use to mount
it to your sun visor so that it basically sits above your head right
about here and you can see that the mic is conveniently positioned on this side
so that it's going to be away from the window and here we can have a look at all the different features that we have
here so we've got the speaker and then there's your Bluetooth light there's the
mic there's the charging port that was mentioned in our quick start guide and
then here are all the pertinent buttons so there's your your main confirm okay
button volume up and down as well as your cancel reject Etc button so it's
quite it's quite a light unit and I look forward to showing you guys how to set
it up