How many of you use Skype? I bet many of you do. I count myself as a heavy user, but I’ve yet to pay the company a single dime. The call quality you get for free, depending on how much you’ve invested in your headset, is outstanding and makes regular phone calls sound like they’ve been filtered through a record player hooked up to a mono speaker made out of the leaves of rotting plant. There’s a problem though, a big one … most people don’t have a high quality headset.
Sure, all laptops come with a microphone, but you almost always get echo and the other person isn’t getting the best that Skype’s SILK wideband audio codec has to offer. Now here’s where Mobiola comes in. As it stands, you can connect a wide range of Bluetooth accessories to your mobile phone, such as external speakers, or douche bag enabling wireless headsets, but what if you can make the phone itself the Bluetooth accessory?
Follow the logic here. You’re in front of your laptop, you get an incoming Skype call, you freak out because your headset is either not within eye sight or it’s in another location all together, but then you calm yourself down because you realize you can just use your mobile phone as the Bluetooth speaker and microphone.
That’s what Mobiola Headset does. It turns your $600 smartphone into a Bluetooth headset for your computer. All mobile phones should have this capability built in as far as I’m concerned. Mobiola Headset also lets you record you Skype calls too, so it’s worth the $1.99 from a feature/price perspective. Oh and you also have to install an application on your Mac or PC so Mobiola can interact with your iPhone. Note that I have not tested this application since I’m a Nexus One owner, but the concept of the app itself just warms my cold jaded heart.
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[Via: Gizmodo]