USB Speakerphone

I am a VOIP user (telephone through my laptop) and am also a heavy user of web-meetings (primarily Lync). I needed a small speakerphone to keep in my laptop bag for when I am meeting with some users face to face and we're connecting to remote users via Lync. The native speakers and mic in my Lenovo laptop don't cut it and my USB headset doesn't work for this either. The MVOX speakerphone is perfect. I don't use it often, but when I do it always works. Just plug it in and the light turns on so you know it is connected. The laptop switches mic and speakers to the MVOX automatically. Sound quality is great and it is so small and light I don't mind just leaving it in my laptop bag so it's always there when I need it. It's also inexpensive enough that you don't need to use it very often for it to pay for itself. By the way, the speakerphone I received is dark metallic grey, not white as in the photo, but is otherwise the same. Highly recommended.

Mine arrived today. I tested it on Skype. Sound quality was a bit off, but Skype quality is poor to begin with -- this could have been all Skype issues. Still, it's workable. The device is quite compact, about the size of a very small cell phone or a compact pager. Very light. No mute or volume control -- have to do that using software. The included USB cable is cheap, long and bulky, I use the elegant Zip-LINQ retractable mini-B cable that came with my mouse. The device works with a cell phone earset and has better sound then -- this, in fact, is really what I wanted. They even include a cheap earset, which is a nice touch. It will be far easier to travel with this than with a bulky USB headset. My ideal device would cost the same but: * dump the speaker phone, so make it smaller (use a cell phone earset) * use a built-in short USB cable that nests in the body of the device * add a mute button This isn't my ideal, but it's the best I've seen so far! I think I like it.

I was concerned after reading reviews that said this did not work with Windows 7. It worked flawlessly for me. I did NOT have to restart to get it to work. Plugged it in, Windows recognized it, and it worked! I have a new Sony Vaio, that runs Windows 7 64 bit professional. Sony's sound is not very loud, and there was a lot of feedback using the mic on Skype. I tried a new speaker, which worked well, but did not slove the microphone problem. I purchased this from Amazon to try. I am delighted. The speaker is set to 12% and is plenty loud. (The Sony speaker was set to 100% and it was difficult to hear) The microphone solved the feedback issue immediately. I am very pleased with how it works. I would like to get a flexible USB to mini USB so that I can suspend the device in the air from the USB port. It will keep it out of the way. The cable it came with is 6 feet long, and even rolled up takes up space on the desk. Not a huge issue, just a preference. I am very pleased with the performance and sound. It is not perfect sound, but soooooo very much better than inadequate volume that I was experiencing.

I can't get the volume as high as I would like for phone conversations, especially if there is any other noise in the room. Still, it works nicely for such a simple and inexpensive unit.

Installation was a breeze. Sound quality is good. There are two important features lacking on this speakerphone. In the product description, I overlooked the fact there is NO mute button on this device. If I had realized this up front, I would not have ordered this speakerphone. The other lacking feature which I was aware of, is that there is NO external volume control. Mute and volume controls are both accessible thru Windows, but I find that method to be quite annoying after a while.

Great speakerphone, no echo, gets plenty loud and works on most machines without silly drivers. I use it with google hangouts. This is the same exact device as the IOGear GPH100U which has been out for over 10 years, and has gotten great reviews. You will not get hi def audio if you are looking for something that is better than standard phone quality. Size wise this is about the size of a hotel bar of soap. The one I got was actually all grey. Surprisingly this is NOT made in China but in Taiwan.

I've had good luck using a variety of headsets with Skype, but wanted to see if I could free myself of having to put one on whenever someone calls. Unfortunately, I had little luck getting the MiniVox to work in an actual conversation. When I tried to record audio with, say, Audacity, the MiniVox sounded just fine, but as soon as I tried using it in a two-way conversation, my outgoing audio would be badly muted whenever I was receiving audio from the person I was talking to. So I tried a little experiment, and played music through the MiniVox while I tried to record some audio with Audacity. Sure enough, the record audio was chopped to pieces. I tried various settings, and even downloaded and used the MiniVox volume-setting software. No luck. Perhaps I've made some sort of cockpit error, and need to change my setup. But as things stand now, there's no way I can use this product with Skype.