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Price: $56.99 on Amazon

The skinny:
Wireless headphones have a long and well-earned history of being huge, heavy and delivering the sound quality of a can attached to a string, but Cardo's newest headset provides fairly high quality performance for a price tag that's lower than the other guys.

The good:
Set-up was simple, even with my Palm Treo 755, which can get bitchy when it comes to Bluetooth devices. As headphones, they produces sound that's stronger and clearer than a lot of the other Bluetooth units I've tested. Signal never dropped, even in high interference areas like the subway or playing under powerlines. The construction feels pretty solid and they fold up into a pretty small package. But more importantly, the band is extremely flexible, helping reduce the chances that they'll break when you inevitably sit on them. The controls are simple and responsive, even if the answer call button is a little tough to find before some practice. Audio on incoming calls is pretty good, but…

The bad:
…as you would probably expect from a headset with no pieces that go anywhere near your mouth, the outgoing audio isn't going to be blowing anyone away. I found myself having to talk very loudly for people to be able to hear me, which is fine in the car, but on the bus people got a little weirded out when I had to scream my plans for the weekend to my buddy. Since they just look like normal headphones everyone thought I was a total whack job, even the one-eyed guy who had built a fort out of newspapers in the back seat.

Jacked:
I'd like to make a special note that they charge with a normal, mini-USB port and will take juice when they're plugged into a computer or the wall. It sounds like a little thing, but I give Cardo and any other company credit when they can resist the urge to use some stupid proprietary port or charger.

Verdict:
If you're going to be using them primarily as headphones and having a wire get caught on something makes so mad you want to punch a clown down the stairs, then it's easy to recommend the Cardo S-2. If you plan on giving it a lot of work as a hands-free kit for your phone, you might want to consider something that's a little more suited to your needs like the Jawbone or just holding the phone in your stupid hand.