Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Wear Bluetooth, get mocked

Opinion
Aug 17, 20051 min

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Wireless cell headsets aren’t brand new, but they’re still uncommon enough that you may get ridiculed or gawked at.

“I’m mocked constantly,” says Lynne Brady, manager at Amoeba Records in San Francisco, who sports a Bluetooth headset. “People think I’m talking to myself, people think I’m talking to them, and then it’s like, right, I’ve never heard that ‘Star Trek’ joke before. But I’d never go back. I love it.”

Personally, we think Bluetooth headsets are the bomb and we’re waiting for Verizon to get off its collective duff and start carrying cool, Bluetooth-enabled phones. Verizon’s slogan should be: Great network, boring phones. But, we digress…

The San Francisco Chronicle looks at the wireless headset phenomenon – what’s driving it, why they’re picking up momentum and why everyone heads for a mirror when buying one.

Via Obscure Store