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ePure Bluetooth Station
Keep your smartphone screen free during calls
ePure
Bluetooth
Station
epure.swissvoice.net
£99.99/$149.99
HD Sound
The handset’s double two-Watt speaker setup
offers HD quality sound so your phone calls are
clearer and richer. This high-quality sound is
ideal for when you’re streaming music or video
on your device and need a wireless speaker.
Connect wirelessly
The LED control keys will
flash white and blue when
connecting to your device,
and a steady blue once the
connection is made. The
Bluetooth Station will operate
up to 20m in line of sight away
from your smartphone.
Charge your phone
Once charged, the ePure Bluetooth Station offers
six hours of talk time, three-and-a-half hours of
music listening and incredibly, will last for 500 hours
on standby if unused. The BH01i model for iOS
devices also has a retractable iPhone charger.
W
e all know the situation; in the middle route your calls. However, the Bluetooth Station your smartphone, so you can leave your phone
of a conversation the caller asks you is not designed for on-the-go use, rather it on charge and receive all your calls off of the
for information that is saved on your provides you with a surrogate telephone freeing ePure device. You use voice-activated dialing to
smartphone, be it an important date up your smartphone screen so you can get at the make outgoing calls, and the same technology
on your calendar or a mutual friend’s telephone information you need. allows you to command Siri to send texts and set
number. You then have to make that awkward Fortunately, ePure offers two models so reminders remotely.
manoeuvre known as the speakerphone shuffle. both Apple and Android devices (the BH01i and If you tilt the handset horizontally for the
Step one – you have to apologise to the person BH01u respectively) are catered for. Resembling best sound, the ePure Bluetooth Station can
your speaking to and interrupt your call. Two a landline phone, the Bluetooth Station comes also be used as a wireless speaker for video
– fiddle with your smartphone to switch to with a cordless handset about twice the size of conferencing, playing music, watching movies
speakerphone. Three – test the caller can still an iPhone 4, and a base that connects to your or gaming with your smartphone or tablet. With
hear you; four, look up the necessary details, computer via mini USB for charging. The device play, pause and shuffle buttons built into the
and five – Switch off speakerphone mode will operate up to 20m in line of sight away from handset, you can take full control of your music.
and resume your conversation normally. It is a
frustrating and long-winded process, but thanks
to the Swissvoice ePure Bluetooth Station, it “use voice-activated dialing to make outgoing
doesn’t have to be that way.
Like the hands-free headsets businesspeople calls, and the same technology allows you to
and motorists use, the ePure device connects
to your phone using Bluetooth to wirelessly re- command Siri to send texts and set reminders”
05 apps to use with your ePure Bluetooth Station
Skype Netflix Rdio Dragon Dictation JAZZ: Trump’s Journey
Improve the sound Enjoy streaming Listen to 18 million An alternative to Listen to the jazzy
quality of your video TV and movies in songs with this app Siri, write SMS and soundtrack based
chats with ePure. HD sound. and ePure. emails, update on Louis Armstrong.
l iPhone | iOS 4.3 l iPad+ | iOS 5.0 l iPhone+ | iOS 4.3 your Facebook status, set l iPhone+ | iOS 3.0
| Free | v4.1.2 | Free | v2.4.2 | Free | v1.4.2 reminders, and more. | £1.99/$2.99 | v1.3.2
l Android | OS 2.1 l Android | OS 2.2 l Android | OS 2.1 l iPhone+ | iOS 4.0 l Android | OS 2.2
| Free | 3.0.0.6181 | Free | v2.1.0 | Free | 2.2.11 | Free | v2.0.25 | Free | v1.0.2
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