There are days when we just want to zone out and listen to music without having to hear people chatting away in the bus, or the sound of bus engines. We might not like to admit it, but we all want some emo time to imagine we’re in our own music video.
Plantronics’s BackBeat PRO, a wireless active noise-cancelling headphones with battery power to outlast your playlist, is the perfect audio accessory to your daydreaming ways. This is the latest addition to its award-winning BackBeat stereo product family. The over-the-ear BackBeat PRO headphones offer Plantronics signature audio performance and design for all-day wearing. It doesn’t matter where you are – chilling at home, in the office, or on the go.
The bluetooth function means you don’t have to worry about tangling cords or winding them up properly to make sure they aren’t damaged. With the noise-cancellation technology, it minimises the background sounds so you can fully immerse yourself in your music. BackBeat PRO will be available in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam starting from October 2014.
If you’re intending to use these headphones in the office, don’t worry about zoning out too much and not responding to someone who’s trying to get your attention. With a press of a button on the adjustable OpenMic feature, you will be able to hear what’s going on around you without having to take off your headphones. What this does is it pushes the music to the background and amplifies environmental sounds – in this case, talking and responding to your co-worker, or ehem, maybe eavesdropping on the person sitting beside you in the bus to find out the latest deals at COMEX.
With one full charge, the BackBeat PRO can provide up to 24 hours of listening time. It comes with a 3.5mm cable that serves as a back-up, allowing you to plug in and keep enjoying your music if you ever run out battery – which, according to Plantronics, is highly unlikely.
Used alone, its active noise-cancellation is capable of eliminating background noise for up to 60 hours – enough to tune out airplane noise on a flight around the world. This means goodbye to crying babies on long haul flights! BackBeat PRO is always ready for action, with up to 21 days of standby power, and up to 6 months in DeepSleep hibernation.
Other features include, sensors on BackBeat PRO which automatically pauses your music when the headphones are removed and resumes when you put them back on, and will unobtrusively whisper updates on connection status, battery life, incoming calls and more.
BackBeat PRO will be available at authorised Plantronics retailers in Singapore for SGD379. For more information, please visit the Plantronics site.
