| Communicator Grey C100S USB Speakerphone for Skype |
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Product Details
Polycom Communicator C100S gives you the ultimate hands-free Skype experience. It enables crystal-clear, natural conversations when using Skype. Enjoy the freedom of not wearing your headset for hands-free Skype calls, or plug into the built-in stereo headphone port for private conversations.The Polycom Communicator delivers high-fidelity wideband voice quality that sounds like you are in the same room with the people you're calling. Two high-quality microphones provide excellent range for group conversations with up to four participants. Polycom's Acoustic Clarity Technology eliminates echoes and feedback, maximizing your Skype experience.Polycom Communicator connects and powers through an integrated USB cable for easy installation and use - no extra cables to carry or batteries to charge. Its small size and carrying case make it easy to take with you. Plus, the high-quality speaker doubles as a great portable solution for CD-quality music and presentation audio. Unrivaled ease of use and Skype integration allow you to launch the Skype application and pick up or hang up calls without using your mouse. Convenient buttons and indicators for volume control and mute are also built-in.
Product Reviews
 (4 stars) - Works well with an unexpected benefit
I purchased this product to have full duplex skype call into a weekly conference call. We disturb the boss in the next cubicle so we would go to a room with a bad phone but a network connection. The C100S works as advertised even on my Windows 7 computer. The add-on software does not function on anything other than XP but I knew that from previous reviews.
The interesting part I discovered was that this makes an excellent microphone for my laptop. This means that when I am making Camtasia screen trainings, I do not have to wear the cheesy headphones/boom microphone to dictate the instructions. I can just speak into the air and the C100S picks up my voice with great clarity. The speaker makes a better replacement for my laptop speakers too and is portable. Please notice I wrote "better" than a laptop speaker system but it is stereo and not "tinny" like a laptop.
 (5 stars) - Great Skype Tool!!
This product is extremely useful, especially for conferencing internationaly. We have purchased several for our business and no complaints so far!
 (1 stars) - Obsolete
Only correctly works with Windows XP - how laughable. Even more absurd is Polycom support's communication regarding this laziness forcing regular users to secretly upload beta versions of Vista drivers to RapidShare in order to help other people try and get this to work. Also, (obviously I guess) echo cancellation only works with Skype. If there ever was a one-trick pony, this is it.
 (3 stars) - Not Vista Compatable
The Polycom C100S was designed for Windows XP and works well running on the XP operating system. It "may" work with Vista. I got it to work as a speaker and microphone, but not an integrated speakerphone like when it is used with XP. I still have problems with the Polycom USB driver that was loaded when I used Polycom's Beta Vista installation program. None of the advertisements that I found mentioned that it does not work well with Windows Vista.
(3 stars) - Why I no longer use it
We are using Skype more and more at work, and I very happy with the headset that I use. But my boss refuses to use a headset so I purchased the C100S speakerphone for him. It worked well, but I now realize it is not the best solution, and we no longer use it.
You can buy a camera (and if necessary an external speaker) for the price of a C100S and it can sit on top of your display freeing up desk space. I was not familiar with how cheap and high quality cameras (and the associated microphone and software) were. And you don't have to use the video, you can make a "sound only" Skype call.
But more importantly, all speaker phones (including C100S) have a feature which cuts off soft sounds and amplifies loud ones. This form of intentional distortion was necessary with the poor phone lines that Ma Bell had but is counterproductive and unnecessary today. For example there is sometimes construction going on outside our offices and with the C100S it comes though as if the jackhammers were right in our building; at other times words spoken very softly can be completely cut off. On a long call these problems become quite noticeable and quite annoying. With the logitech video camera all sounds are passed though, softly or loudly as the case may be, a far more desirable situation.
So for me the C100S was an interesting experiment, but ultimately unsuccessful. Oh, well, live and learn...
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