I also neglected to mention that the Pollycom Skype phone comes with a 3.5MM headphone socket so you can plug a set of headphones into the unit if you wish to take a private call.
If you like you can also use this device - with headphones connected - as a very good quality playback device for music etc. > On 10 Sep 2015, at 1:24 pm, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona > <hank.smith...@gmail.com> wrote: > > to bad it won't work with non skype devices > but this is nice none the less > Hank > > > On 9/9/2015 8:20 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Quite some time ago I wrote to the list bemoaning the fact that a good >> Desktop phone seemed incredibly hard to find, at the time my 12 year old >> Panasonic desktop phone had died. >> >> Another list member suggested that I lookup the range of Polycom products, a >> most useful suggestion though I found something that - whilst it wasn’t >> exactly what I had in mind - it nevertheless will be of great benefit, I’m >> talking about the Polycom Skype Hands Free conference speakerphone, I >> received it this morning, its now set up on my desktop and is better than I >> ever thought possible. >> >> The first thing that struck me about this phone was how small it was, it >> could fit easily into a jacket pocket and even comes with a carry pouch so >> its completely portable. >> >> The phone plugs into a USB port on a computer, has 2 microphones on the >> bottom and a speaker at the top. >> >> The USB stores away rolled up under the desktop stand the phone rests on. >> >> On the front of the phone are various buttons including volume up/down, a >> button to answerer/end calls and programmable buttons that can launch >> various applications or tasks, you can turn your webcam on for example. >> >> Whilst the Polycom Skype phone is at home on a desk with a desktop computer >> I can’t help feeling - given the size of the device - how handy it would be >> for the user of a Notebook who is in the road, often in such cases Notebook >> speakers and microphones just don’t cut it when you need to use them for >> such things as Skype, the Polycom Skype Conference phone will do the trick >> in say a hotel room, the specifications state that the phone will pickup the >> voices of 4 people in a room, haven’t had the chance to try that yet <smile>. >> >> >> ********** >> Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the >> halfwits in this world behind. >> >> >> > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
