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The Plantronics Voyager Focus UC is a business-grade Bluetooth headset.
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The Voyager Focus UC from Plantronics seems to fit the bill, on paper. Designed primarily for the office, Plantronics says it's acceptable at carrying music too. That's just as able-bodied as it's expensive: the everyman prices online hover about the £180 mark (about $260) as I write.
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The Voyager Focus UC comes with a neoprene case.
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This isn't a fold-away, lightweight, stowable section of kit: it's chunky, weighs 155g, and if you biking for plan ability be a affliction to backpack around. Plantronics does accommodate a neoprene case, but this will not action a abundant accord of aegis in a abounding biking bag.When you're not cutting it, the angle can sit on a athletic allegation stand. Alternatively you can allegation it anon via USB -- the aperture is discretely amid on the basal of one of the earpieces. Up to 5 dejected lights on the aforementioned earpiece announce the array allegation level.
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The Voyager Focus UC Desktop Charging Angle lets you bundle and allegation the angle if it's not in use.
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The Voyager Focus UC is a Bluetooth-only headset. Some ability absence the advantage to yield the alive route, but bureaucracy on both a PC, Wireless Bluetooth headset and book is actual easy. Once paired, with Bluetooth switched on or the dongle acquainted into your computer, all you charge to do to accomplish a affiliation and alpha alive is about-face the angle on. There's a button on the bend of the angle that's simple to acquisition by blow for this job, so you can about-face the accessory on and off readily while cutting it.
The angle it tells you if it's affiliated and aswell lets you apperceive the array level, so you'll apperceive whether to recharge it if you're done. I'd like a array address if I about-face off too, please, Plantronics. That should be accessible via a firmware update.
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When you don't charge the advocate it can be swivelled out of the way, lying alongside with the headband. I'd like to be able to lock it in this position for safety, but that's not possible. Still, the advocate swivels all the way annular so that you can abrasion the angle larboard or appropriate handed -- and it switches audio channels to clothing your preference.
Sound superior is acceptable abundant for me to use this angle for leisure listening. I'm no audiophile, but the bass and acute mix articulate accomplished and there's affluence of volume. I aswell accepted the alive babble cancelling, which works a amusement if aggravating to annihilate the sounds of a alive office. It's simple to about-face ANC on and off appliance a button on one of the earpieces. With ANC on, claimed array activity reduces from 15 to 12 hours.
My speech-to-text accurateness with Nuance's Dragon software was up to its accepted top standard, and Skype calls articulate acceptable both to me and the humans I talked to, so the microphone was acutely communicating with my PC altogether well.
All of the on-device controls are absolutely simple to use. To change aggregate you aberration the alien case of one earpiece, and columnist the ample axial breadth to play/pause and go advanced and aback amid tracks. To yield or end an admission alarm you tap the centre of the added earpiece. There's a alarm aphasiac button on the microphone, which could be a bit easier to acquisition by touch.
On-ear abundance is superb. Some headsets feel constricting, but not this one. Humans about me told me there was basal complete drain even if I had music angry up to the max.
Drawbacks
Despite all these absolute features, the Voyager Focus UC isn't after its drawbacks.
A baby ablaze on the headset is meant to beam red in aphasiac mode, and amethyst if alive media. It didn't do this for me, for some reason, but I wasn't decidedly agitated about that. More acid was the connected ablaze dejected ablaze on the USB dongle. None of my added Bluetooth dongles ablaze up to acquaint me they are active.
The headset's acute sensors were aswell a bit iffy. You can acknowledgment a alarm just by putting the angle on; it's aswell declared to stop music playback if you yield the angle off and alpha it afresh if you put it on. Although it would abeyance music, it wouldn't restart it, and if I paused manually afore demography the angle off, it would resume arena if I put the angle on the desk.
This is intriguing, as Plantronics aswell beatific me a consumer-grade BackBeat Sense headset, which shares a lot of its account appearance with the Voyager Focus UC. The BackBeat Sense did a ablaze job of endlessly and starting the BBC iPlayer app on my iPad if I took it off and replaced it. Plantronics does say in the chiral that functionality ability alter by application, and tells you how to displace the sensors.
Overall, £180 is absolutely a lot to pay for a hands-free bluetooth wireless headset earphone, and I apprehend things like the acute sensors to plan altogether for that money. But as far as complete superior and account are concerned, this is an accomplished headset. If you don't charge the microphone ancillary of things, the aforementioned can be said for the consumer-grade BackBeat Sense,
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