I did read up on it. There sure is something nifty about it, but I'd be worried that the headset part of it wasn't good enough to justify the price. Bluetooth headsets are still a bit of a pain, in my experience.
Jim Don Moskaluk wrote: > Jim > > Did you check out the Bluetooth ear phone with voice dialing > on the same website? > http://www.mvox.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=5 > Now this looks like a great product for mobile VoIP. > > Don Moskaluk > www.moskaluk.com/blogger.htm > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:43 PM > To: 'Toronto Asterisk UG' > Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] A nifty little handsfree for your PC > > Duane wrote: >> Jim Van Meggelen wrote: >>> Folks, >>> >>> Ed Guy turned me on to these: >>> >>> http://www.mvox.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2 >>> >>> It's basically a really inexpensive little handsfree unit for your >>> PC. Really great for the money. >> >> Still suffers the problem off all USB voip devices, you still need a >> PC turned on all the time to use them :) > > No arguments here. It's not a panacea by any means, but for > $15 it does one heck of a good job of delivering a small, > light, good-sounding handsfree unit. > >> Not to mention all the fun and games of getting the computer to send >> audio to 1 device and yada yada... > > I would say that the sound system in PCs has never worked > well with telephony. A big problem is that PC microphones and > DSPs aren't tuned for the kind of audio a DS0 is desiged for. > I would say this is part of the magic of Skype: they took > this into account and engineered their codecs to be better > aligned with typical PC audio systems. I think that's why > this little beastie makes me smile; I don't find myself > having to tweak the microphone gain controls to get things > sounding right. It pretty much does what is needed; when I > plug it in it is pretty much good to go. > > This is a $15 peripheral, so it needs to be evaluated in that context. > > Jim > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
