Jabra Halo2 Bluetooth headphones Review

Bluetooth headphones provide a welcome relief from all the tangledness and messiness that are almost synonymous with wired headphones. But, it also comes with one major drawback – a hefty price tag! Jabra recently launched their new Halo2 Bluetooth headphones, but do they follow the same norm as the other Bluetooth headphones, or do they break that mould? Let’s find out. 

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Design and Build Quality

The Jabra Halo2 headphones are available in a matte black outfit with a silver outline on both the earcups. The Halo2 can easily be mistaken for an oversized hairband, with the minimalistic curved design. That doesn’t mean that they’re any cheap – the design is brilliant, with a smooth exterior and a felt covering the interior. The only button that’s available is on the outside of the right earcup, next to the slide volume bar. The inside of the headset consists of the product information along with notification LEDs for battery and Bluetooth connectivity.

Neatly hidden away from your naked eye is the track change sensor, next to the play/pause button and the microUSB charger at the bottom of the right earcup. In terms of design, the headphones look pretty good, but we weren’t really impressed with the fit. The only adjustment that’s available is that the length can be varied, but there’s no separate panel to make them snugly fit onto your ear. This allows another con to prop up – noise leakage. It looks pretty, but we’d recommend you check the fit as it was more of a design tradeoff for us. 

Good design

The headphones can be folded and packed away, so the portability feature is there, but in terms of build, the flap wasn’t as sturdy as we’d wanted it to be. Also, the earcups were quite wobbly, which didn’t impress us at all. At 80 grams, they make for a pretty light pair of headphones - because you wouldn’t want to be wearing a rock on your head to listen to music, right?

With the Halo2, Jabra gets full marks in the design department, but the fit and the build quality left a lot to be desired. 

Features

The Halo2 come with the Bluetooth 3.0 wireless technology with three profiles. A2DP, obviously, for wireless music streaming. AM3D – for Virtual Surround Sound 2.0 and Power Bass and the last one being AVRCP, allowing you to control your music playback options (track skipping, pausing) from the headphones itself. Also, the headphones support two connected devices at a time, which might come in handy for swapping between your laptop and your smartphone. Along with the device, you get a separate 3.5mm jack cable, so you can use it with your non Bluetooth devices as well. The Halo2 can be operated as headphones using the microUSB data cable as well. 

Portable

Jabra has put dual microphones into this little hairband and they’ve also got Noise Blackout technology for better audio quality. The headphones come with a talktime and music time of 8 hours and a standby time of 13 days.