Cute Tech: Boosted Pequeño Rojo Headphones

March 23rd, 2009 Consume, Cute Tech

CuteTech

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You all may remem­ber the last time I bought head­phones.
About a year later, I found myself look­ing at my beloved but beat up & bro­ken skull­candy ‘phones, won­der­ing if I should get another pair with their awe­some 50% off retail replace­ment deal. 

This plan became flawed, how­ever, when I real­ized that since I have an iPhone now, I should get some­thing with a built-in mic type thing. There’s this one iPhone ad, where a girl is lis­ten­ing to her head­phones and danc­ing down the street. She gets a call, and the music pauses while she grace­fully pushes a but­ton on her ear­buds and answers with­out even tak­ing her phone from her pocket. At this point, we notice that her shadow has con­tin­ued to dance despite the lack of music. The call then ends, and she steps right back into step with her shadow, danc­ing down the street. Upon see­ing this, I decided that I, too, wanted to give my shadow the oppor­tu­nity to rock out while I was on the phone, but I wanted to do it in some­thing more styl­ish than apple earbuds. 

Enter Boosted Pequeño Rojo.

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I orig­i­nally saw these head­phones at the Boost mobile booth at the trea­sure island music fes­ti­val. I was imme­di­ately in lust with them because they’re red, but this is a com­mon feel­ing I have for most red objects. I later found them again at Urban Out­fit­ters, but decided I could prob­a­bly find a bet­ter price for them online, with the added bonus of being able to read some reviews.

Unfor­tu­nately, at the time, I couldn’t find these head­phones online any­where. This shocked me, (wtf? who doesn’t have their stuff on Ama­zon) and I couldn’t find any reviews on sound qual­ity or any­thing beyond the typ­i­cal “They look really cool!”. Frus­trated and no more edu­cated than before, I returned to urban and made a blind purchase.

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& I am so glad I did. Not only do these sound bet­ter than my skull­can­dies, but the micro­phone sys­tem works great for calls. The one thing that’s a lit­tle unfor­tu­nate is that the cord needs an adapter on the end of the cord to fit your phone of choice (shown in first photo), but it fits snugly enough that hav­ing it come loose isn’t an issue. 

I am so into these, am tempted to buy a backup pair.

Find them in Urban Out­fit­ters stores nation­wide, or from the only online retailer I could find, Zumiez.


7 Responses to “Cute Tech: Boosted Pequeño Rojo Headphones”

  • Lesley Denford [ 23Mar09]

    HAWT! Those are fan­tas­tic, and so very Star! :)

     
  • thisisstar [ 23Mar09]

    I KNOW! I love them per­haps a bit too much.

     
  • Crystal [ 24Mar09]

    Dang! Out of stock on Zumiez!

     
  • Melanie [ 24Mar09]

    Meow, those are gor­geous! I also have bright red in my hair, so I might replace my sil­ver & black skull can­dies for a pair of these :)

     
  • eric [ 06Apr09]

    i just got these and yesss amaz­ing qual­ity great looks and over­all pretty good head­phone for a rel­a­tively cheap good qual­ity head­phone price

     
  • Audiophile [ 07Oct09]

    I have been look­ing for those EVERYWHERE!
    I then gave up because they are no longer mak­ing them and I bought THESE:
    http://s723.photobucket.com/albums/ww239/iTwilight_Silence/?action=view&current=headphones.png

     
  • Hilary [ 01Mar10]

    I found these online and I am stoked. Just what I was look­ing for. And thanks for your review because there really is no info on these pup­pies. The only thing is, I can’t seem to find any info about device com­pat­i­bil­ity. Do you hap­pen to know if they are uni­ver­sal or not? I have a Treo 755p. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

     

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