First things first, it does work on the iPhone, the volume doesn’t but the clicker & microphone do.

These headphones are exactly what I wanted, they sound better than the Sennheisers. And they fix all of the problems. They’ve got the split of the cables in the middle so no catching, and they’re the same length as Apple’s regular iPhone headphones.

And everything on the cable is great, a small, easy to press clicker/microphone and a bonus clip to keep them tidy, like the slider from the iPod in-ear headphones but it detaches so it goes around the microphone.

And a frivolous bonus, the alternate size ear tips come in a very cool case.

The only negative is they’re £54, but well worth it, if they stop my iPhone re-discovering gravity.

… everything else about them sucks. (I’m pretty sure Amazon didn’t have the picture when I ordered them or I would’ve spotted some of these issues.)

Let’s start with the split bit of the cable, uneven splits are just rubbish. The lack of balance means the rest of the cable is more likely to get caught in stuff going past your side. Like, for an admittedly unlikely example, your arms. And obviously an even split means the main bit of the cable goes straight down your front, less likely to get snagged on a tree branch, unless the branch also impales you.

Moving down to the microphone/controller, it’s huge, but to make worse the clicker is tiny so hard to press. The Apple headphones mic/controller is small, the perfect size for something that’s essentially hanging off your ear. (The huge size on the Sennheisers does make keeping the headphones in your ear difficult.)

And lastly the rest of the cable, not only is it massive (Peter Crouch could keep his iPod in his sock) but because the split is not central & it’s not very flexible it’s always hanging way off to the side to catch on stuff.

In conclusion this is why my iPhone took a fall, and why there’s a bunch of dead pixels in the top right of the screen. Bugger.

Just brought

Into the wild green yonder – the new Futurama film

Earthsblood, the new God Forbid album. Worth getting the limited edition CD, only £2 more than the download version and you get the bonus live CD.

Pre-orders

The last half a season of Battlestar Galactica. Just in time for me to sit at home alone night after night and re-watch everything from the mini-series on.

And the so far brilliant Generation kill