{"id":8415,"date":"2014-02-02T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2022-04-29T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:42:15","slug":"era-by-jawbone-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/02\/era-by-jawbone-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"ERA by Jawbone (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/njr.sabi.net\/2014\/02\/01\/era-by-jawbone-2014\/\">Nicholas Riley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/njr.sabi.net\/2014\/02\/01\/era-by-jawbone-2014\/\"><p>Externally the new ERA looks much the same as the old one, just smaller, lighter and thinner.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The new ERA has shorter battery life but no apparent change to the headset&rsquo;s excellent range.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The new ERA takes ~3 seconds to audio feedback (which doesn&rsquo;t sound like a ripoff Mac startup sound any more) and another second to pair. Regardless, this is a substantial improvement &mdash; slightly slower than the Q3 but acceptable, given it takes a second or two just to attach the headset to my ear.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best news: you can triple tap the button to play or pause. I have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B004K1EDG2\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">older Jawbone ERA<\/a> that I use for calls, but more often for listening to podcasts and music around the house and while exercising. It&rsquo;s easily one of my favorite hardware purchases of the last few years. The inability to control non-call audio from the headset is the only serious complaint I have about it. It&rsquo;s not bothersome enough that I would upgrade to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00H2RP9R8\/?tag=michaeltsai-20\">new one<\/a>, though. In fact, I think the older model&rsquo;s longer battery life is worth the weight.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilounge.com\/index.php\/reviews\/entry\/jawbone-era-bluetooth-headset-2014\/\">iLounge&rsquo;s review<\/a>, which has more photos.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Riley: Externally the new ERA looks much the same as the old one, just smaller, lighter and thinner. [&#8230;] The new ERA has shorter battery life but no apparent change to the headset&rsquo;s excellent range. [&#8230;] The new ERA takes ~3 seconds to audio feedback (which doesn&rsquo;t sound like a ripoff Mac startup sound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-04-29T20:42:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"c58602b7-a2da-4a8c-b994-a0484b84c0e5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-04-29T20:42:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxYYCt6LaSoy5lKBIS4TA5Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[422,464,85,749],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bluetooth","tag-headset","tag-iphone","tag-jawbone"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35742,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8415\/revisions\/35742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}