It's not as cool as the new Pentax SLR, but it does the job. I've read several rave reviews about the sound quality, but I prefer a cabled connection with headphones, preferably Bose, to get good sound.
I'm listening to Mike Oldfield's Music of the Spheres — Live, and I'm getting occasional slight drops in sound quality, particularly during sound level transitions. Sounds a little like a suspect phone connection.
I've never been a phone person. I don't have a cell, although I am tempted to get an iPhone for the GPS, mapping, and other features. I don't like talking on the phone unless it has to do with work, where a conference call is preferable to hopping a flight to get together with a bunch of assholes who can't stand each other.
My land line goes to a fax machine with a digital answering/phone screen machine interface, and although I've been on the no call list since before cave paintings, most of the calls I get on the answering machine are robot generated, many of them so poorly constructed that they are unaware they have reached an answering machine. Douchebags.
It is nice being able to fire up iTunes and start a playlist and wander around the house doing chores without wires, but the sound leaves something to be desired, which makes me wonder exactly where that cliché comes from. I flashed on Internet porn there for a second.
I'll give the microphone functionality a test later this evening and see how that works. Doctor Faustroll's podcast will eventually kick ass, but I'm not sure the Kensington unit will give me the low-end quality I strive for.