Put a Jabra PanaCast, a Logitech Rally Bar, a Poly Studio and a Sennheiser TeamConnect Bar on one table and ask a customer which one comes from an audio company. A few years ago that was an easy game. Today it is a trick question, and I get asked about it in the middle of…
I have a customer who already had a Barco ClickShare CX-30 in the room. When they experienced the MAXHUB wireless box and dongle, they were amazed. What impressed them was how the USB-C dongle skipped every small problem they were used to, especially the app or driver you have to deal with when you plug…
I remember when my UC and AV presales guru introduced me to MAXHUB. I ran to talk to the vendor representative locally, and we had an amazing meeting. At the time I was looking for a way to turn the Jabra PanaCast 50, the BYOD video bar I love, into a wireless solution without breaking…
I spent about five years inside outsourced contact centres before I ever sold a headset, so I know what agents fight over on the floor. I have watched people argue over the last BIZ 1500 USB in the drawer, and I have watched the same people not care at all what a headset was called…
I have used the word MDEP in several posts on this blog, from the Jabra HDMI bypass to the SpeakerMic and the Meeting Owl 5 Pro, and I never stopped to explain it. Every time a new room device gets announced, MDEP shows up somewhere in the press release, usually in one short line, and…
We were waiting so long for an extension microphone from Jabra. Anyone selling PanaCast into a medium or large room has run into the same wall: the built-in microphone array covers a normal huddle space beautifully, and then someone puts the same device in a longer room and the people at the far end start…
I genuinely hate walking into an office, seeing a proper video bar and a clean room setup inside, and then finding a plain iPad zip-tied or glass-mounted outside the door running some generic booking app. It looks cheap next to everything else in that room, and it behaves cheap too. A company that spent real…
When I wrote about the Evolve3 85 and 75 losing the boom arm, most of the reaction focused on the design change itself, the sleek boomless look, whether the AI microphone could really replace a mic sitting an inch from your mouth. What got less attention is that the deep neural network behind that microphone…
I keep seeing the same pattern play out. Someone travels to Europe or the US, sits in a meeting room with a strange black-and-white device shaped like an owl sitting in the middle of the table, and comes back asking me where to buy one. No local presence, no distributor pitch, no channel partner pushing…
A big chunk of the complaints I hear about Jabra hardware aren’t actually about the hardware. Someone’s headset sounds tinny, or the mic picks up too much background noise, or a feature they read about online just isn’t there, and the real issue is that they’ve never opened a single companion app. The firmware shipped…
