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.
