Hi! The Skype Plantronics Hub for the Mac is exactly what I’ve been after for years, ever since I bought my first Plantronics Audio 478 headset. The Audio 478 headset is a USB powered device with a fold down flexible boom microphone which folds down from the left earpiece. This headset is an on-the-ear type and looks remarkably like those older headphones we had for our Sony walkman machines all those years ago, they work well with my hearing instruments too! A cable runs from the USB connector to an inline control panel which features a number of buttons which are clearly identified by a cross and a line, obviously for volume up and down respectively. Above those is a mute button and then a recessed “Control” button and that’s where the Plantronics Hub comes in. When the hub is installed and running along with your favourite VOIP phone App - say Skype - the control is activated so - in the case of Skype - when the button is pressed calls will either be answered - incoming calls - or ended - outgoing calls -. The Plantronics Hub App has been available on the windows PC for quite some time but this is the first time I’ve seen a Mac version of the App, I’ve tried it and it works very well, my only complaint is that you cannot hide the App window it seems.
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