Windows Phone Accessory Review: RF3 ENVi Headphone

RF3 ENVi mono earpiece

Hither'due south a relatively new Windows Phone accessory that jumped off the computer screen at me. The RF3 ENVi corded headsets utilize AirCom2 technology to proceed potentially harmful radiations abroad from your noggin'. Using natural wood earpieces is another feature that makes these corded headsets unique.

We took a look at the Mono-earphone model (comes in a ii piece stereo model as well) and the RF3 performed really well. The ENVi headphone does arroyo things a fiddling differently than your typical corded headset. Typical headsets ship the audio signals through wires directly to a speaker that sits in your ear. The ENVi uses a SPL enhanced audio chamber that then channels the sounds up air tubes to a natural wood earbud. It basically puts the speaker down from the earpiece.

RF3 ENVi mono headphone

The build quality of the headphone is good. The wood pieces feel solid and to help with the fit/feel, the earpiece comes with a few different sized earbuds. A wired ear claw attaches to the wooden speaker to assistance with a secure fit. The downside to the ear hook is that is correct ear merely.

RF3 ENVi ear piece

A microphone with switch rests along the wired section of the cord that you lot can use to answer/end calls. Telephone call quality and audio quality was really nice. Granted this is a mono headphone only still the sound quality was surprisingly dainty. Especially when you consider the last six inches of travel is through a hollow tube.

The only oddity, and I apply the term loosely, is that the headphone isn't fitted with a 3.5mm headphone jack. Instead sports the smaller 2.5mm jack. To balance things out and save you from having to hunt downward an adapter on your own, the headphone is packaged with a 2.5mm to three.5mm adapter.

The RF3 ENVi collection includes the mono earpiece with or without the claw and a stereo headset with or without the ear hooks. The headphones start at $29.95 and top out at $44.95. You can find the mono earpiece with hook here and the entire RF3 drove here at the WPCentral Accessory Store.

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