@Jaseum I bought these last time, or so the write-up tells me. Right now they simultaneously both work and don’t work, as they are still inside Schrödinger’s packaging.
@Jaseum For what it is worth I bought these last time and all three worked. The controls are a bit awkward and there is a fair bit of delay in the audio but they did the job.
As previously noted, these will not work when charging.
They induce audio delay, which isn’t a big problem if you’re listening to podcasts or music. But it you’re watching video with them, the A/V will be out of sync.
If the battery is completely drained, the LED will not light up for at least several minutes after you plug in the USB cable to indicate that charging is occurring.
Got these last time and they worked adequately to use the AUX port in my Subaru as a BT connection for music. (Seriously, Subaru, why did you make a BT radio-phone connection that only does the phone?)
I got these last time. All 3 worked, but there was the hassle of making the Bluetooth shake hands(sometimes I have to shut off the Bluetooth on my phone, or restart). I chalked it up to old BT 3 and BT 4.whatever.
I sucked one up into the high powered vacuum at the car wash. I assume it’s not working anymore.
@eonfifty
I enjoyed one of the ones I bought last time this late afternoon. The humidity wave here had broken on my work schedule’s Friday night (my weekend is Monday and Tuesday), so I listened to some music from YouTube.com from my smartphone on a pre-Bluetooth stereo like I used to when @jasontoon did those music posts on Sundays, but back then I had to use, crumudeonly, a cable . Today I’m cable-free, not counting the charging cable (not that I really need it, but I like to keep my battery charged), and I would love to read and listen to one of those Sunday music posts with my [bluetooth thing model number here].
The bands I listened to were Dr. Hook, Jerry Reed, I forgot this one, The Bar-Kays and Booker T and the MGs.
Since it’s not mentioned, I suspect the protocol is SBC. Maybe you won’t notice if you only ever knew SBC but if you switch to AptX or AAC you will notice immediately
@wildcat Based on what I know and observed I have no idea what any of these are…I did observe that when I pair this, the headphones make noise without the cord plugged into the phone…neat-o!
Headphones for the gym. If you’re wired to your phone, the phone yanks the wires around and it comes undone or gets in the way of movement. It’s a pain.
So just go wireless? Easy enough but then the sweat and water and the fact that you’re in a gym near weights and such and they get broken. $20 a pair is starting to suck and you have no audio whenever they do break. Also - they aren’t easy to charge (you have to open a flap thingy and use micro usb!) so you often forget.
These things? You’ll have 3. They can be used with any old earbuds (of which you have a half dozen lying around from when iPhones used normal ones and came with them) and it’s lightweight and clips to your collar or belt.
Really the weight compared to being attached to the phone itself is a big deal - especially since you handle the phone if you track your workout. This just stays in place and out of the way.
@BUTCHYPIE I bought them last time and I’ve only used one so far. Otherwise, it’s the same good experience as yours both in the car and with wired headphones. Steal for the money.
Just my luck…I have 3 old stereos/speaker docks that I sometimes want to connect my phone to without that-stupid-jack-adapter-where-the-fuck-is-it!
I’m in.
Got these last time. Connection is simple and works fine at short range. Didn’t bother testing at long range.
One thing to be aware of is that there’s a half second or so delay in the Bluetooth connection. So while audio books and podcasts work fine, playing video (Netflix) means there’s a gap between lips moving and audio. 3rd party apps on Android (I use VLC) can add audio sync delay but wired is a much simpler experience for video.
I bought them last time. I used one in my daughters car to enable bluetooth audio input. Worked well. I used the other 2 to fill space in the big box of stuff I bought from Meh that I thought would be useful/fun and it wasn’t (yet). My wife took away my “/buy” command and changed it to “/buywifeflowers” so I could stay married
@blaineg Costco is good for flowers, I also like to buy Orchids…they last longer. Note to future married people…ordering a phone as an anniversary gift is NOT enough…
I bought six of these last time because they were so cheap ( it also spread out the shipping cost for each one ). I’ve used three of them and they all pretty much work. Although in the instructions they say you can connect two devices at once, I’ve not been able to replicate it.
I originally started using bluetooth audio adaptors when I buggered up the head phone jack on a cell phone, about six years ago. Starting with a Hapurs for about eleven dollars. It lasted about a year and a half. So, when I went to reorder, they had more than doubled in price. Looking for a replacement, I settled on Jabees IS901 for about twelve dollars( they come with headphones ). I’ve purchase several of these. The main deficit of these is that they don’t have individual buttons. Their face is flat and it’s not easy to find the correct buttons to carry out the action you want to accomplish.
The ZipKord Z343N041 are easy to pair to your phone, windows 10, and tablets. Since your headphone cords don’t connect to your devices, it’s easier to manage the cords. If your connected to your phone and stay connected when you enter your car, you don’t have to unplug your earbuds and connect your phone to the car bluetooth. And when you leave your car you don’t have to disconnect the car bluetooth and reconnect your earbuds( just stay connect to the Z343N041 all the time).
The buttons are easy to find by feel. And have a positive feel when depressing them. So I can listen to it and pause it quickly when talking to other people or skip back to replay a segment or skip forward to get past a commercial.
I use these mostly for audio podcast ( tech stuff and news ) and they are just fine. By the way I use only one earphone so I can be aware of my surroundings and other people.
@jsl350
I have paired one of these to two phones, I believe at the same time, but I never tried playing audio from two different phones at the same time. These are the only Bluetooth devices I have, so I don’t know if it’s usual or not to be able to pair one Bluetooth adapter to more than one phone.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I bought these the last time they were offered on Meh. I have opened only one, and it seems to work fine, though compared to audio straight from the cord, sound quality is diminished. (Much less bass!)
I am either too stupid to figure out how to turn these on or I received 3 DOA units (I’m leaning toward the latter). I charged one for about an hour. I thought it was odd that I didn’t see any lights anywhere to indicate it was charging.
After it charged for an hour, I couldn’t figure out how to get it to turn on. I tried holding down buttons, I tried holding down combinations of buttons - no dice. Okay, maybe that one’s defective – but the other two are the same way.
Can anyone here perhaps help me figure this out or do I need to send an email to support?
@capguncowboy I think I read someone saying that they left it on charge overnight and the charging light finally came on. You may try plugging them in for a while longer.
@capguncowboy@drcate I have 3 for 3 working adapters from the prior (April?) sale.
The hole by the USB plug is not the charging light. That must be the microphone. The light is very dim behind the + (center) button. You may not be able to see it in a lit room.
Power on and off is done by holding down the phone button (closest to the headphone jack). Hold it down and the center button will light up and then go into an alternating red/blue flash which I assume is pairing mode. Hold it down again to turn off.
@capguncowboy@drcate sorry to hear that. I thought mine were doa also, but then discovered the lights are very dim behind the smoked buttons so they are easy to miss. I was hoping that would have been the case for you as well.
I’m sure support will get you taken care of though.
I have only tried 1 of mine. And it is DOA, charged it for 2 hours like it says but no light at all every came on for it. I am hoping at least 1 works when i get back home…
@meh How many of these did you test before selling? lol
@kcimpulse I guess you should know by now, you being a kickstarter backer and all… @meh is somebody’s nick. They were a member before meh.com was decided upon apparently. It was all before my time.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$23.79 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Can you play Quake on these?
Bought these last time. All 3 didn’t work. Don’t buy them!
@Jaseum I bought these last time, or so the write-up tells me. Right now they simultaneously both work and don’t work, as they are still inside Schrödinger’s packaging.
@Jaseum For what it is worth I bought these last time and all three worked. The controls are a bit awkward and there is a fair bit of delay in the audio but they did the job.
@djslack same here.
I see we were both quoted in the write-up. To my knowledge, a first for me.
@baqui63 @djslack Mine work. I was quoted in the write up too. Yet another claim to fame.
I use one while mowing the lawn. My phone has no headphone jack. My earmuff style headphones that block the lawnmower sounds have a traditional cord.
One major detail left out of the description: you cannot use it while it’s charging.
@PilotError42 Weak. I nearly bought this so that I could use Bluetooth gear with my old stereo. Too bad I wouldn’t be able to keep this plugged in.
(Also, welcome to the forums!)
@PilotError42 Oh, also they don’t automatically turn off when not connected to anything, so they just stay on until they run out of battery
@PilotError42, well, that’s why you get 3
/giphy 3
@lljk @PilotError42
These worked great for adding a blue tooth channel to my home studio units if they ever sell them again.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/bluetooth-home-connect-audio-receiver
Got this last time… 2 were DOA. Staying away this time. Fool me once…
Bought these last time, and they were surprisingly decent.
So you’re saying they come with the headphones pictured. That’s a bargain!
I don’t need these because I drilled the required hole in my phone.
As previously noted, these will not work when charging.
They induce audio delay, which isn’t a big problem if you’re listening to podcasts or music. But it you’re watching video with them, the A/V will be out of sync.
If the battery is completely drained, the LED will not light up for at least several minutes after you plug in the USB cable to indicate that charging is occurring.
I cycle through them for use in the car.
How many of these things did you buy? Are these going to become the new candy corn? Please don’t let these be the new candy corn.
Got these last time and they worked adequately to use the AUX port in my Subaru as a BT connection for music. (Seriously, Subaru, why did you make a BT radio-phone connection that only does the phone?)
@OutbackJon Same with the Beats Audio in my Abarth: phone only bluetooth. Lame.
I’ll tell you why not. They cannot charge and function at the same time.
I got these last time. All 3 worked, but there was the hassle of making the Bluetooth shake hands(sometimes I have to shut off the Bluetooth on my phone, or restart). I chalked it up to old BT 3 and BT 4.whatever.
I sucked one up into the high powered vacuum at the car wash. I assume it’s not working anymore.
I bet meh would love for me to waste one of my birthday coupons on these.
/giphy not-gonna-do-it
How many Mehtizens out there hate Bluetooth? I hate it.
/image xkcd Bluetooth
Not one of the three I got last time worked. They wouldn’t even change.
@ratman two of mine didn’t charge until I left them plugged in for a day. They narrowly escaped being bin fodder
Same for me none worked after charging
Poor meh. I don’t think they’re going to make it to 1,303 units this time.
If they don’t work while charging I’m outta here. You almost had me though…
Got these last time. One is plugged in to a speaker dock in my sewing room and connects to my computer. Works great.
I bought these last time, and they work.
@eonfifty
. Today I’m cable-free, not counting the charging cable (not that I really need it, but I like to keep my battery charged), and I would love to read and listen to one of those Sunday music posts with my [bluetooth thing model number here].
I enjoyed one of the ones I bought last time this late afternoon. The humidity wave here had broken on my work schedule’s Friday night (my weekend is Monday and Tuesday), so I listened to some music from YouTube.com from my smartphone on a pre-Bluetooth stereo like I used to when @jasontoon did those music posts on Sundays, but back then I had to use, crumudeonly, a cable
The bands I listened to were Dr. Hook, Jerry Reed, I forgot this one, The Bar-Kays and Booker T and the MGs.
@JasonToon
I remembered the one I forgot. It was Steve Earle.
/youtube Texas eagle farmaid
/giphy thick-dead-mango
Since it’s not mentioned, I suspect the protocol is SBC. Maybe you won’t notice if you only ever knew SBC but if you switch to AptX or AAC you will notice immediately
@wildcat Based on what I know and observed I have no idea what any of these are…I did observe that when I pair this, the headphones make noise without the cord plugged into the phone…neat-o!
Grabbed three of these back in April they work well but I have no use for them so into the Meh drawer they go.
I’ll clarify one reason “why people buy these”
Headphones for the gym. If you’re wired to your phone, the phone yanks the wires around and it comes undone or gets in the way of movement. It’s a pain.
So just go wireless? Easy enough but then the sweat and water and the fact that you’re in a gym near weights and such and they get broken. $20 a pair is starting to suck and you have no audio whenever they do break. Also - they aren’t easy to charge (you have to open a flap thingy and use micro usb!) so you often forget.
These things? You’ll have 3. They can be used with any old earbuds (of which you have a half dozen lying around from when iPhones used normal ones and came with them) and it’s lightweight and clips to your collar or belt.
Really the weight compared to being attached to the phone itself is a big deal - especially since you handle the phone if you track your workout. This just stays in place and out of the way.
@knrg yeah this would all seem great, if only the products worked.
You have to charge for an entire 24 hours the first time. Make sure the USB is in all the way.
I got three last time and they all worked fine.
Really happy with these. Long battery life. Pair easily. Surviving the heat…
I bought this time, too, because I wanted spares.
@BUTCHYPIE I bought them last time and I’ve only used one so far. Otherwise, it’s the same good experience as yours both in the car and with wired headphones. Steal for the money.
To buy or not to buy???
@Jaicienil Use the 8 Ball
Outlook good
/8ball To buy or not to buy???
@Jaicienil See? there’s yer answer!
Just my luck…I have 3 old stereos/speaker docks that I sometimes want to connect my phone to without that-stupid-jack-adapter-where-the-fuck-is-it!
I’m in.
@Renee4183 you can never have too many speakers with amplifiers
@cshupe THIS is why I can’t live in an apartment.
Got these last time. Connection is simple and works fine at short range. Didn’t bother testing at long range.
One thing to be aware of is that there’s a half second or so delay in the Bluetooth connection. So while audio books and podcasts work fine, playing video (Netflix) means there’s a gap between lips moving and audio. 3rd party apps on Android (I use VLC) can add audio sync delay but wired is a much simpler experience for video.
I bought them last time. I used one in my daughters car to enable bluetooth audio input. Worked well. I used the other 2 to fill space in the big box of stuff I bought from Meh that I thought would be useful/fun and it wasn’t (yet). My wife took away my “/buy” command and changed it to “/buywifeflowers” so I could stay married
@tightwad don’t go there
@tightwad I often buy my wife flowers (Costco is great!), but if I forget, she buys them herself, and tells me “Thank you.”
@blaineg Costco is good for flowers, I also like to buy Orchids…they last longer. Note to future married people…ordering a phone as an anniversary gift is NOT enough…
@tightwad Kitchen appliances may not be a great idea either.
@blaineg Dang…what about vacuums?
@tightwad Vacuums? Do you wanna die?
@tightwad I did get away with a Roomba gift, but it wasn’t for an anniversary.
I bought six of these last time because they were so cheap ( it also spread out the shipping cost for each one ). I’ve used three of them and they all pretty much work. Although in the instructions they say you can connect two devices at once, I’ve not been able to replicate it.
I originally started using bluetooth audio adaptors when I buggered up the head phone jack on a cell phone, about six years ago. Starting with a Hapurs for about eleven dollars. It lasted about a year and a half. So, when I went to reorder, they had more than doubled in price. Looking for a replacement, I settled on Jabees IS901 for about twelve dollars( they come with headphones ). I’ve purchase several of these. The main deficit of these is that they don’t have individual buttons. Their face is flat and it’s not easy to find the correct buttons to carry out the action you want to accomplish.
The ZipKord Z343N041 are easy to pair to your phone, windows 10, and tablets. Since your headphone cords don’t connect to your devices, it’s easier to manage the cords. If your connected to your phone and stay connected when you enter your car, you don’t have to unplug your earbuds and connect your phone to the car bluetooth. And when you leave your car you don’t have to disconnect the car bluetooth and reconnect your earbuds( just stay connect to the Z343N041 all the time).
The buttons are easy to find by feel. And have a positive feel when depressing them. So I can listen to it and pause it quickly when talking to other people or skip back to replay a segment or skip forward to get past a commercial.
I use these mostly for audio podcast ( tech stuff and news ) and they are just fine. By the way I use only one earphone so I can be aware of my surroundings and other people.
@jsl350
I have paired one of these to two phones, I believe at the same time, but I never tried playing audio from two different phones at the same time. These are the only Bluetooth devices I have, so I don’t know if it’s usual or not to be able to pair one Bluetooth adapter to more than one phone.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@eonfifty @jsl350 good headphones allow this, so you can pair to a tablet and a phone for instance.
I bought these the last time they were offered on Meh. I have opened only one, and it seems to work fine, though compared to audio straight from the cord, sound quality is diminished. (Much less bass!)
Ok, @djslack this one is on you.
/buy
@blaineg It worked! Your order number is: destroyed-haunted-throat
/image destroyed haunted throat
@mediocrebot That doesn’t look terribly haunted to me.
/giphy destroyed-haunted-throat
That’s better.
@blaineg Deal. In exchange, please teach me how to teach my wife how to buy herself flowers and tell me thanks.
@djslack I wish I could, but she initiated it. Most of my really good ideas are hers.
I am either too stupid to figure out how to turn these on or I received 3 DOA units (I’m leaning toward the latter). I charged one for about an hour. I thought it was odd that I didn’t see any lights anywhere to indicate it was charging.
After it charged for an hour, I couldn’t figure out how to get it to turn on. I tried holding down buttons, I tried holding down combinations of buttons - no dice. Okay, maybe that one’s defective – but the other two are the same way.
Can anyone here perhaps help me figure this out or do I need to send an email to support?
@capguncowboy I think I read someone saying that they left it on charge overnight and the charging light finally came on. You may try plugging them in for a while longer.
@djslack I’ll give that a shot. thanks
@djslack Well, that didn’t work. I guess I got some duds ? Seems odd that all three are DOA though.
Anyone else having issues with these?
@capguncowboy Sorry to hear it. Looks like it’s time to turn on the support bat-signal.
@capguncowboy @djslack Yep, same.
@capguncowboy @drcate well now y’all are going to make me take mine out and check them.
@capguncowboy @drcate I have 3 for 3 working adapters from the prior (April?) sale.
The hole by the USB plug is not the charging light. That must be the microphone. The light is very dim behind the + (center) button. You may not be able to see it in a lit room.
Power on and off is done by holding down the phone button (closest to the headphone jack). Hold it down and the center button will light up and then go into an alternating red/blue flash which I assume is pairing mode. Hold it down again to turn off.
@djslack @drcate I tried that – still didn’t work. The adapters I have are definitely dead
@capguncowboy @drcate sorry to hear that. I thought mine were doa also, but then discovered the lights are very dim behind the smoked buttons so they are easy to miss. I was hoping that would have been the case for you as well.
I’m sure support will get you taken care of though.
All three of mine were DOA also.
@drcate Sucks – I guess I’ll message support about mine
I have only tried 1 of mine. And it is DOA, charged it for 2 hours like it says but no light at all every came on for it. I am hoping at least 1 works when i get back home…
@meh How many of these did you test before selling? lol
@kcimpulse I guess you should know by now, you being a kickstarter backer and all… @meh is somebody’s nick. They were a member before meh.com was decided upon apparently. It was all before my time.
ahhh #meh ! not reserving their name! And I never learn or stick around in any forum long enough to learn anything.
@kcimpulse what he said. also none, if you were still wondering.
None of the 3 worked.
I can’t get them to charge.
ALL are NOT good. 2 No Charge, the one that did I could hardly hear anything with good buds (Skull Candy)
@jonjen2 you’re outside the 90 day warranty at this point, so feel free to try to hack them into submission.