Best Bluetooth accessories right now (roundup)

Most smartphone users tend to focus on the sheer processing power, screen quality, and other hard-core specs offered by their handsets. Often overlooked is a phone's wireless Bluetooth capability, a innovation found in virtually every modern handset. As someone who uses Bluetooth gadgets daily, I'd frankly feel lost without my handy assortment of hands-free mobile toys.

Respectable consumer research

Bluetooth is as well evolving into a respectable consumer research; Bluetooth 4.0 is beginning to ship in multiple devices, with many more on the way. Gone are the wayward days of tedious setup procedures and pairing problems. Nevertheless what can you in fact do with Bluetooth? In fixed and final form: plenty. Take a look at this list of recently reviewed Bluetooth accessories that help your smartphone be all that it can be.

Brian Bennett is senior editor for mobile phones at CNET and reviews a wide range of mobile communication products. These include smartphones and their myriad accessories. He has more than 12 years of experience in innovation journalism and has put practically anything fun with a micro chip through its paces at some point.

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