Saturday, January 29, 2011

Plantronics Calisto 800 speakerphone and Voyager Pro UC headset make concalls cool again

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We'd all rather be flown to some exotic, Caribbean location for our
next corporate get-together, but in these hard economic times
sometimes a good 'ol audio bridge makes the most sense. Increasingly
those concalls are happening via some sort of VOIP bridge, and
Plantronics' latest are ready for it. First up is the Calisto 800
series "multi speakerphone" devices, which offer connectivity to an
analog phone line, a mobile phone over Bluetooth, and even a PC over
USB. This lets you easily dial in to just about anything and naturally
offers a full duplex speakerphone with noise cancellation and an LCD
with caller ID. There's even an optional wireless microphone that you
can plunk down on the table so the lamentations of the entire QA team
will be picked up loud and clear.

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again" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/01/voyager-pro-2011-01-28-250.jpg
" />Also new is a revised version of the Voyager Pro UC, a rather more
traditional Bluetooth headset with an extended boom for better voice
pickup and the ability to pair to a mobile phone and a PC (via a tiny
USB adapter) simultaneously. It'll even do A2DP so you hold music
won't be the only tunes you hear. Both appear to be available now, and
both start at $199.95, putting them out of reach for most non-
corporate attendees.

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