Sony Xperia Ear was announced back at the MWC as part of the new Xperia accessory lineup. It went official with three more devices - the Xperia Eye clip camera, the tiny Xperia Projector, and the Xperia Agent hub for home automation.
The Xperia Ear is the first of these to make it to the market. It's a smart headset capable of recognizing voice commands or head gestures, and answer with voice input. It comes with a rather big box, but that's actually a portable battery pack that can recharge the Ear once.
That key is the only control on the Xperia Ear. Naturally, it can answer, end, or reject calls. It supports long-press and the action is also configurable via the Xperia Ear app.
A short press on the key will make the Xperia Ear assistant ready to listen for your voice command. You can:
- Ask for the weather forecast
- Hear the time
- Search for stuff in Wikipedia
- Ask for street directions
- Send text messages
- Listen it read the most recent unread text messages
- Hear your scheduled upcoming events for the day
- You also get voice notifications for low battery
A long press on the key lets you do one of the following:
- Send a message to a person
- Tell you about your upcoming events
- Play or pause music
- Play a startup message - news, time, traffic, date, etc.
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