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Posted: 06-26-2007
I work from home and am *constantly* on the phone. I need to keep my hands free, and walk around alot, so I plug a headset into my cordless phone, and then switch to the next cordless handset when the battery runs out. I go through 3 phone handset/batteries a day! Eventually (usually after 3-4 months) every headset cord I've had goes bad. When it happened to an expensive headset, I soldered a new cord onto it. Then it broke again. I have no time for that. So, I had to find an inexpensive "disposable" headset. After buying lots of 'em, I found this one -- the plantronics PLNM210C. It is cheap (about $20) sounds great with my phones (Panasonic cordless) and easy to put on and take off. I buy them 4 at a time (a year's supply -- it's like any other office expense to me). The only drawback: the foam ear cushion isn't that comfortable. For me, the easy solution was to switch with the nice leather cusion from another more expensive (but no longer working due to bad cord) headset. One important point: the "noise reducing" microphones on some other headsets (of all the brands I've seen so far) often wreak havoc with regular cordless phones. The result is that you sound terrible to the person on the other line -- I would steer clear of these type of microphones.
