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I just love wireless headsets, specially the small, light yet powerful ones, so naturally when I got the Jabra Step Wireless headset, I was excited to take them for a spin. I tried them while travelling and thought I’d give it a short review.
The Headset
Like any Bluetooth connected headset, the Step Wireless lets you enjoy stereo music and answer calls wirelessly. The headset is packed in a yellow and black box and contains the Bluetooth headset which consists of 2 earpieces connected by a rubber-coated wire hooking them together with a in line control plastic piece. Also in the box, you’ll find some customisable earbuds with different sizes to suit your ears.
The Jabra Step Wireless has a solid build quality is light in weight at about 16 grams only. There’s a connection indicator light and a micro-USB port under the right ear piece. The Bluetooth headset is also dust and water resistant.
The in-line controls piece has 3 buttons that does the usual commands like switching the headset on/off, answer/reject phone calls, play/stop music skip tracks and of course controls the volume.
Once out of the box, the headset does not require anything but to connect to a Bluetooth-enabled device. Pair the headset with your phone or MP3-player and it’s ready to go.
For those who prefer earbuds without hooks, the headset gives you the option to remove the gel hooks that come pre-attached to the ear pieces. The hooks are very light, soft and didn’t cause any annoyance while wearing them at first, but after around an hour of continuous use they began to feel a bit painful on the ear. It would probably take few times to get used to adjusting the hooks and earbuds.
Jabra also threw in three different sizes of EarGels in the package to accommodate to different inner ear sizes.
Performance
The Jabra Step Wireless delivers some impressive sounds for a Bluetooth headset. I only found it to lack a little bass sometimes depending on how sealed tight the earpieces were in ear, but overall acoustics were clear and seemed to deliver the sound quality as it should.
The headset battery lasted around four hours of continuous music playing, matching what Jabra mentions on the box. When the battery is low, you’ll hear a beep notification before the headset turns off.
All was good; I was impressed and loved the headset, until I started having some connectivity issues which kinda ruined my first time experience. The headsets disconnected few times, although my phone was literally not more than 35cm away in my pocket and nothing seemed to fix the issue except to pair the device with my smartphone again. In some instances, the headset would also refuse to pair or simply didn’t reconnect to the phone. Just to be sure, I tried to test it with another phone and found the same issues.
These connectivity issues were minor and thankfully didn’t happen on a continuous basis. In conclusion, the headset is really nice, comfortable, well built and delivers some awesome sounds and has a good battery life for a wireless headset.
