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Matthew Miller & Joel Evans

BlueAnt rolls out the Q2 headset with an Android application

By | July 28, 2010, 8:08am PDT

Summary: Bluetooth headsets are becoming a necessity as laws around the country continue to roll out to stop phone calls made by holding your phone. BlueAnt rolled out their latest headset with an improved design and some cool new features.

I use a Bluetooth headset in my car all the time now, due in large part to the law preventing me from holding it up to my head here in Washington State. My current preferred headset is the BlueAnt Q1 which works well and has a cool Google Android utility. I just received news that BlueAnt Wireless just introduced the new BlueAnt Q2 which looks to improve upon the Q1 with an improved form factor, new text-to-speech feature, Wind Armour Technology for noise resistance up to 22 mph winds, Bing 411 integration, Android app for SMS messages on the go, and more.

The BlueAnt Q2 provides up to five hours of talk time and 100 hours of standby time. I love that they now have a hardware on/off switch, which is something I like on the Jawbone ICON as well. The Q2 uses Bluetooth 2.1 with support for A2DP and the ability to connect to two phones at the same time, which is important for mobile phone geeks like me that actually do carry multiple phones on muliple carriers. BlueAnt has always been great about updating the firmware in these headsets and this functionality is provided here as well. I hope to get one soon to test and will post a review after I give it a go. You can purchase a Q2 now at AT&T stores for a MSRP of $129.

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Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases most of his devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “keeper” or “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. He is one of three hosts on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and runs the Nokia Experts website. Matthew started using mobile devices in 1997 with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 90 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, Mac OS X (iPhone), Google Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems. His current collection includes a Nokia N85, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia N810, Apple iPhone, HTC Advantage, T-Mobile G1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, MSI Wind, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew co-authored Master Visually Windows Mobile 2003, was a member of the Nokia Nseries Blogger relations program, and is a member of the invite-only Microsoft Mobius mobile device evangelist group. He can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".

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