BlueAnt S1 Visor Mounted Handsfree Bluetooth Car Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today I'm going to be unboxing the blue ant S1 this is a Bluetooth car kit
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and it is a handsfree device that basically just allows you to drive in
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your car without using your hands on your cell phone now with the local laws
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changing these have become a very hot product category because come the New
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Year everyone will be required to use one legally in order to talk on their
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phone while they're driving so let's have a look at some of the features that make the S1 a particularly good value
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first of all you can talk handsfree okay very good it supports voice dialing as
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well as voice answering it is multi-point so that means if you have
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one of these in your car you can actually have two different people with
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their phones uh mounted to it and then whichever one Rings you can answer that
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phone that's very convenient has noise and Echo cancellation Bluetooth 2.0 you
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can stream music from your phone it operates up to 10 M from the phone and
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if you have a 10 m long car then yeah I
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mean okay that should basically be all you really need okay up to 15 hours of
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talk time and8 hours of sorry 800 hours of standby so let's get this open and
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have a quick look now I also want to do a quick video outlining the uh setup
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procedure for this but let's have just a short look at the unit itself if I could
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just get the Box open then that would work really really really well okay so
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I've actually used one of these before although it wasn't an S1 but I found it
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was uh these visor mounted kits are an incredibly effective way of mounting the
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handsfree in your kit in a way that it can actually hear you and you can hear
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the speaker clearly without window noise affecting it okay so first of all it
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comes with a charger so this is just a standard wall jack to USB 5vt charger so
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that means you could probably charge it and I'm going to say with 99% certainty
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you could charge it if you just plugged it into your computer with a USB cable
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so let's have a look at the documentation that comes with it first
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of all we have okay wow there's like four different things in here S1 okay so
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this gives you a brief overview of the unit itself s so you can see that we've
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got the speaker the Bluetooth light the microphone the charger port and/ reject
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button volume up and down and the multi-function button so this is onof
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pairing answering calls voice dialing Redal and audio transfer Okay so we've
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got all that then you've got a basic manual showing you how to do pretty much
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everything you need to do so it's a quick start guide then we have that but
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in French all right and then we have a warranty information card and then
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finally last but not least we have the S1 itself so let me just see if I can
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figure out how to get this out of here oh that's um I may not be able to get
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this out because I'm just not that clever some days and oh there we go okay
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so the clip comes off here at least it's
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supposed to I think yeah clip comes the
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clip comes off and
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then the clip comes off awesome I didn't
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break it okay so the clip comes off and this is the clip that you use to mount
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it to your sun visor so that it basically sits above your head right
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about here and you can see that the mic is conveniently positioned on this side
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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
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here so we've got the speaker and then there's your Bluetooth light there's the
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mic there's the charging port that was mentioned in our quick start guide and
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then here are all the pertinent buttons so there's your your main confirm okay
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button volume up and down as well as your cancel reject Etc button so it's
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quite it's quite a light unit and I look forward to showing you guys how to set
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it up