Top 5 Portable Speaker Phones/Conference Speakers for Your Home Office
As we now look to equip our home offices to be be seamless extensions of our workplace, one device we should be looking for is a speaker phone. While speakers and headsets enable a quality audio experience you are still physically restricted to some degree to adopting an operator position, which is not that comfortable for long calls. A good quality conference speaker gives you the freedom to move around and can also be used to have small conference calls with the family or more than one person. Here are 5 top speaker phones/conference speakers for the home office.
Retailing at around £80 and receiving an average of 4.5 out of 5 star ratings from over 1,000 reviews and being an Amazon bestseller, this Jabra Speaker phone is perfect for you home office. Key features: Ideal for one-to-one and small-group conference calls . compatible with all leading UC platforms. 360 Degree omnidirectional microphone. In-built echo cancellation, call control and touch buttons. Portable phone speaker fully optimised for mobility. Plug into your computer with USB or connect via Bluetooth to your smartphone, tablet or headset
2.Anker PowerConf Bluetooth Speakerphone with 6 Microphones, Enhanced Voice Pickup, 24H Call Time, Bluetooth 5, USB C, Bluetooth Conference Speaker Compatible with Leading Platforms, For Home Office.Retailing at about £83 and receiving an average of 4 out of 5 star ratings from over 200 reviews and being an Amazon Choice, this Anker Speaker phone is perfect for you home office. Key features include: Omni-Directional Voice Pickup: 6 microphones arranged in a 360° array pick up voices up anywhere in rooms.
Custom DSP algorithm offers real-time echo cancellation up to 70 dB. de-reverberation, and reduces background noise by 20db
Automatically balances the sound of voice to make up for differences in volume and distance from the speakerphone.
Connect to your phone via Bluetooth or to your computer with a USB-C cable. Compatible with all popular online conferencing services. 24 Hours of Call Time.
Retailing at around £120 and receiving an average of 4.5 out of 5 star ratings from over 170 reviews and being an Amazon Choice, this Sennheiser Speaker Phone is perfect for your home office.
Key features include: Omni-directional microphone. Built-in cable system connects directly to PC and mobile phone or tablet. Sennheiser HD sound quality and voice clarity. Dual talk function, echo canceling and music setting, Certified for skype for business.
Retailing at around £800 and receiving an average of 4.5 out of 5 star ratings from over 170 reviews and being an Amazon Choice, this Meeting Owl Video Conference System is the perfect high end tool for your home office. Key features include: 360° smart video conferencing camera. Automatically highlights and shifts focus to different people in the room when they speak. Combines a 720p video conference camera mic and speaker. The 360° lens shows the whole room while eight microphones pick up everyone within twelve feet. No downloads or installs
Retailing at around £600 and receiving an average of 5 out of 5 star ratings from this Jabra PanaCast Panoramic 4K Video Conferencing Camera is the perfect high end speaker phone and video conference tool for your home office.
Key features include: Three 13-megapixel cameras and real-time video stitching for a full 180° room coverage. Camera zoom adjusts automatically to include everyone in the conversation
Plug the Jabra PanaCast into your laptop or computers USB port and you are ready to go. Works with all leading video and audio conferencing solutions including with Microsoft Teams.
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