Plantronics CS50-USB Wireless Headset for VoIP Softphones

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.7 x 4.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006DPT5M
• Item model number: CS50USB
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,174 in Cell Phones & Service (See Bestsellers in Cell Phones & Service)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer You've eliminated the phone, now remove the wires. The CS50-USB from Plantronics extends wireless freedom to your softphone. It's the first wireless headset for VoIP applications with remote call detection and answer/end capability via PerSonoCall. Experience superior sound quality, stylish design, four comfortable wearing options and hands-free convenience via your USB port.

VoIP Wireless Freedom
A complete wireless VoIP softphone solution that quickly connects to your USB port, allowing you to take conversations up to 200 feet from your PC with no headset cables.

First with Remote Ring Detection
The CS50-USB is the first wireless headset with remote ring detection and call answer/end at the touch of a button, thanks to Plantronics' PerSonoCall software.

Customizable Comfort
Quickly converts for your choice of four comfortable wearing styles, two that are included--over the head and over the ear; and two that are options -- behind the neck and dual T-pad headband.

One-touch Controls
Streamlined one-touch volume control, mute button, and call answer/end for complete control while you're away from your desk.

Features:

• Wireless freedom up to 200 feet in a typical environment
• Remote ring detection and one-touch call answer/end with PerSonoCall software
• Instant USB connectivity for easy compatibility and quick set-up
• All-day freedom—talk up to 8 hours without recharging
• Clear, private and completely secure conversations with digital 900 MHz technology
• Customizable comfort with four wearing styles
• IntelliStand base unit automatically answers or ends a call

What's in the Box
Headset, base unit, AC adapter, earloop, CD-ROM, user manual

Product Description

You've eliminated the phone, now remove the wires. The CS50-USB from Plantronics extends wireless freedom to your softphone. It's the first wireless headset for VoIP applications with remote call detection and answer/end capability via PerSonoCall .software. Experience superior sound quality, stylish design, four comfortable wearing options and hands-free convenience via your USB port.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great super fast install, April 5, 2005

By	John Hillestad (Ft Lauderdale, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a usb wireless headset. just plug it in to your mac or pc and it sees it as another sound device , no drivers needed (xp or os x) I tested it with Skype on the mac and teamspeak on my pc . It comes with a sound api for windows for skype and a few others that allow the buttons on the phone to pickup or hangup calls , I did not try it out because I just like to use apps as is without special add ons ...

The range is great , so if you skype and dont want to be tied to your pc then plug this bad boy in and your free to walk all over the house , same goes for teamspeak for the gamers out there.

It was so pleasing for something to just work out of the box for a change! I tried for hours to do the same thing using bluetooth and it was a mess... This thing just works!

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Plantronics CS50-USB wireless headset works extremely well, February 24, 2006

By	Stu Ater (Houston, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

The Plantronics CS50-USB wireless headset works extremely well with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional software! This wireless headset is comfortable and it allows me to travel a considerable distance away from the computer to dictate without significant degradation of signal. The system will accurately transcribe my dictations when I am four rooms away from my computer and even when I'm outside the building. This wireless headset works as well with my system as the microphone originally supplied with the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software (Andrea Antinoise NC91). Both microphones achieved a very high score when training the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software. I use the wireless Plantronics CS50-USB as my primary microphone because it is so much more convenient to work hands-free at a considerable distance from my computer.

This device can easily be transported from my desktop computer to my laptop computer by moving the USB base unit from one computer to the other. Most of the time I use the system my desktop computer because it's faster, and I've done more software training training on the desktop computer.

I usually use the included charger to keep the microphone battery charged even when the computer is turned off. The microphone base unit is plugged into a computer USB port. If the computer is turned on the USB port will charge the microphone and the charger is not necessary. The charger can be optionally plugged into the base unit at the same time as the USB port. The microphone battery maintains its charge well, and has not had problems running out of battery power even on long dictations. In between dictations, I replaced the microphone into its convenient base unit that keeps it charged.

The combination of this headphone and Dragon Naturally-Speaking Professional software has dramatically that improved my ability to produce high-quality transcriptions with very fast turnaround time. After training this software to recognize technical and medical terms, I'm now able to achieve much better accuracy on complex dictated documents than was possible with most medical transcriptionists I have utilized. In addition to better accuracy on technical terms, the system instantaneously transcribes complex documents and allows me to edit my work while I'm still thinking about the content I've just dictated.

This microphone provides the advantage of mobility that allows me to to move from area to area within the office without losing significant signal while I'm away for my computer. This feature is much handier than dictating into a voice recorder and downloading when I return to the computer.

This microphone features a mute switch on the earpiece, and it is also excellent at screening out ambient noise even when not muted. The microphone does not usually transcribe things other people say (the unit apparently uses noise cancellation between the microphone and the earpiece and only records sounds spoken by me). The system is even smart enough that it does not record my nonverbal sounds when I cough or sneeze,

In summary, the Plantronics CS 50-USB wireless headset admirably performs its role as a team member with Dragon naturally speaking professional software when utilized on a fast computer. This is one of the best purchases I've made in the last several years!

Stewart Ater M.D.
Pediatric Neurology P.A.
Houston, Texas

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works on Mac OS X Tiger!, March 15, 2006

By	IA - See all my reviews

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I could not be more impressed. I was highly skeptical as I have been buying bluetooth headsets like crazy trying to find one that worked, and they're all pretty much junk. This thing worked all the way out to the sidewalk, and likely much further, but that's as far as I went. The quality on the other end is very clear. The manual is plain stupid, it looks like they were half way through putting it together when they released it, but on the Mac the manual was of course not needed, just plug it in and it worked without any of the driver install nonsense Windows requires. BTW, I am using it primarily with Skype.

OK, I have to add something to this review. There's a fatal flaw in this device. A flaw that makes the device near worthless to me now. If the USB cable is unplugged, but the earpiece is left clipped into the holder/charger, the battery runs down within hours. Obviously a simple diode somewhere would have prevented this, but for me the device now is close to useless.