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The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4<br />
iDESIGN<br />
1 3 4<br />
2 5<br />
1 Vibe in Red Roxx.<br />
2 Vibe Duo, in iPhonematching<br />
chrome<br />
and black.<br />
3 From cable design to<br />
coloration and even<br />
metal speaker grilles,<br />
the smallest details of<br />
Vibe and Vibe Duo are<br />
impressive.<br />
4 A combination<br />
microphone and<br />
control button made<br />
Vibe Duo a superior<br />
value than its older<br />
brother Vibe, and<br />
better-suited to<br />
iPhone use.<br />
5 The early olive<br />
Gunmetal Gray Vibe<br />
proved a nice match<br />
for subtle iPod colors.<br />
to stay snug in your ears. They were just<br />
plain sexy and flashy at a time when<br />
plastic, neutrally colored earphones<br />
were dominant. In addition to making<br />
Vibe a bass-heavy earphone in response<br />
to surveys of consumer interest, V-Moda<br />
touted Vibe as a workout-friendly<br />
canalphone, designed to isolate outside<br />
noise and remain in your ears even<br />
when jogging. The populist, fashion and<br />
lifestyle approach worked. Vibe sold<br />
extremely well by any standards, and<br />
was soon followed by Vibe Duo, which<br />
preserved the $100 price but added a<br />
microphone - and in a later version, a<br />
remote control button - for use with<br />
Apple’s new iPhone. Additional colors<br />
followed: a pure silver and chrome<br />
version, and the mostly black Nero with<br />
silver accents. Both were gorgeous<br />
matches for the iPhone’s expensivelooking<br />
shell. Plus, V-Moda had<br />
begun to experiment with both cable<br />
materials and subtle tweaks, replacing<br />
its distinctive clear cabling with fabrics<br />
for certain Vibe Duos, and trying slight<br />
variations on earlier color schemes,<br />
bringing a stronger red to Red Roxx,<br />
and eliminating the olive hints from<br />
Gunmetal Gray. Its release of a Midnight<br />
Blue Vibe sated owners of blue iPods,<br />
while an odd Gunmetal Rogue Vibe Duo<br />
gave iPhone-loving girls a new semi-red<br />
option, and Blush added pink to the<br />
roster. The idea of buying earphones<br />
based on their designed-in good looks<br />
was once inconceivable; thanks to Vibe,<br />
geeky earphones have a lot to fear.<br />
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