Jawbone Era Review (2014)

Jawbone Era review 2014.
The Jawbone Era is astonishingly small, light, and comfortable to wear. The headset boasts excellent noise-cancellation and clean audio quality. The companion mobile app offers helpful and fun extras.

The Jawbone Era’s base model has short battery life and lacks a volume button. The Era's small size is tough on large hands.

Outside of short battery life, the small and comfortable Jawbone Era delivers the full package of an affordable price, excellent sound quality, and a powerful companion app.

It's no magnification to say that the new ERA is small. The original model, released the whole way back in January 2011, was compact and neatly designed, but three years development has allowed Jawbone to shrink things by 42-percent. It's not only smaller and lighter, the 2014 version sits flatter to the face also; if you've got longer hair, it's entirely possible that the ERA could be hidden by it altogether.

Aesthetically, Jawbone has dropped the cheese-grater fascia of the original and given the new ERA a more subtle casing, with gentle ridges running lengthways along the headset. How striking it is depends upon what color you opt for - the black and bronze are subtle, whereas the metallic red and silver are more attention-getting - but disregarding the hue it's incredibly light.

Jawbone supplies four earbuds - small, medium, and large for the right ear, and medium for the left - which simply tug over the speaker, with a flexible silicone tail that rests in the groove of your ear and keeps things snug. Even without an ear loop it clings tenaciously: we can shake our head frantically and still the ERA stays. Despite that, it's comfortable too, and we wore the ERA all day with no discomfort.

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