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- Hello everyone.
I'm Brian Hyrek from VoIP Supply,
and welcome to another episode of "SIP Chats"
where today we have,
rejoining us again,
Jessica Kelly from Jabra.
Thank you for coming back on the show again
and excited to do actually the first SIP Chats
of the new year,
even though it's February.
So happy new year to you, Jessica.
- Happy New year to you as well.
Thanks for having me back.
- Yeah, absolutely.
We appreciate you coming on the show.
Last time was very informative,
and we got really good feedback,
so what a better way to kick off SIP Chats this year
than to have you on the show.
Starting off really,
I guess into this new year,
and I guess already years past,
we've been seeing a lot of hybrid work environments
and Jabra was one of the major players
and enablers of that new normal type of work environment.
What have you been seeing?
- So we still continue to see that hybrid work environment.
I think there are some folks
that are returning to the office,
and then there's certainly some folks like myself
who are still working from home.
And then there's definitely maybe
those folks that are doing a combination of the two.
They're either
maybe a few days at home
and a few days at work.
So we are seeing that,
I think video is still very prominent,
so making sure you have the right devices
to be productive,
the right headsets.
I see you're wearing your Evolve2 85--
- [Brian] Yeah, and I love it.
It is awesome.
Awesome.
The noise cancellation on this thing is so good.
- [Jessica] Thanks a lot. - Really, really--
- And you need that from your different environments
as you're changing
whether you're at home or going to the office,
it's really important to be able to concentrate
and get your work done.
- Yes.
Actually, the headset has now been my go-to
for any scenario,
it's funny you mentioned that,
whether I'm in the office or at home like I am today,
or even on the commute,
I'll pop this headset out on the plane
and I can really tune everything out
and focus in to the podcast
or whatever I'm listening to.
- Excellent. Excellent.
Well, I'm glad you like it.
I do have a new one for you that we're--
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Exciting.
- Right?
So it's the one that I'm wearing right now.
It's the Evolve2 75.
So it is our newest in the Evolve2 series of headsets,
different,
similar to what you have though
and that's Evolve2 85,
but a little bit different.
It does have active noise cancellation,
but we've now actually brought
our fully adjustable active noise cancellation
to the Evolve2 75 headset.
So what that means
is you actually have 11 different settings
that you can adjust from within the Jabra Sound+ app.
- Wow, that is awesome.
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- So that's something that's new.
The other thing that you'll see is different
is the the microphone boom arm.
So it kind of comes straight out
and it can be headed away.
So you can tuck it back up into the ear cup,
and you can talk with it up in the ear cup as well.
So you don't always have to have the boom arm down
and the boom arm is actually,
if people like numbers,
it's 33% shorter than our Evolve 75 boom arm.
So that's a little bit of difference
between the legacy Evolve 75 and this new Evolve2 75.
- That's great.
They do look similar in size.
Is that true?
- Yours is gonna be a little bit different.
It more sits over the ear,
whereas the Evolve2 75 sits on the ear.
- Awesome.
Very cool.
Well, I certainly look forward to trying that out someday.
Hopefully, I do get the opportunity to.
Last time you were on the show
we were talking about the Evolve2 line.
What do you have for us today?
- So we are gonna talk about the Evolve2 75.
As I mentioned,
the active noise cancellation already
and the microphone boom arm,
but this headset is super comfortable.
Like I said, the microphone boom arm can be worn down
as I'm wearing it here,
and it can be flipped back up
if you wanna be kind of more discreet.
If you're commuting or traveling
and you don't really wanna have the boom arm down,
you can flip it back up.
There is also a mute button on the bottom of the microphone.
So it really makes it easy to mute as well.
So that's what we're gonna be talking about
a little bit more today.
- That's awesome.
Now, I know that a lot of your devices
and of course, we get calls with customers
using all sorts of video services,
and all sorts of VoIP PBXs,
all kind of different directions,
but really prominently now,
we've been getting a lot of calls
using Microsoft Teams and Zoom
and just wanted to know
is the Evolve2 75,
do you have Teams versions or Zoom certified devices?
- Yes, that's a great question.
So the Evolve2 75 does work
with all the leading UC platforms
as you mentioned,
Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
As I talked about the boom arm,
to take it a little bit further,
when the boom arm is down as I have it now,
it's in what we call performance mode.
And that eliminates all the background sounds
in an open office workspace.
So it actually meets Microsoft OpenOffice requirements.
When it's hidden away in discreet mode,
it's also great,
and you can use it as the microphone as well
and it'll deliver clear calls and music wherever you are.
So you do have the two options,
but with the microphone boom arm down,
it does meet the Microsoft OpenOffice requirements.
- Awesome.
Performance mode.
I love it.
Tell me a bit about the battery life,
what do we got going on there?
- Yeah, so the battery is up to 36 hours of battery life.
As I mentioned before,
super comfortable,
mobile,
you can take it with you.
It has dual connectivity to your devices
so you can connect two devices.
And it does also have a 360 degree busylight
on the ear cups.
I do have it here
so I can kind of hold it up.
So I'm wearing one,
but just to show you as well.
So this is the Evolve2 75.
The microphone is going to be on the right ear cup.
So you do not have the option to wear it on either side.
It is only on that right ear cup.
And like I said,
it can be flipped down or flipped up.
It does come with a cute little felt pouch.
So as you're traveling,
it is really easy to stick it in the pouch
and stick it in your bag.
Inside the pouch,
there's actually a cute little pouch
for your laptop dongle,
the Bluetooth dongle.
So you'll see that in there.
And then this option came with the charging stand.
As most of our headsets,
you can buy it with or without a charging stand.
So this one comes with one.
It's a little round puck here
that you dress the headset on.
And then you also get a charging cord.
So if you're on the go
and you're not taking your charging stand with you,
you can charge it with the cord.
This one here is USB-A.
So the Evolve2 75 does come in USB-A and USB-C.
And then it also comes in black and beige.
So there are two color options as well.
- Oh, wow.
So we now have color options to go around as well.
- Yes.
So we tried it out with the Evolve2 65
and the Evolve (indistinct),
and some people like it,
some people don't.
So we did discontinue a few of the beige models
that weren't as popular,
but we do still have the beige color
for the Evolve2 65, 85 and now the 75.
- Wow, that's great.
It's cool because you start to see,
as you have more hybrid workplaces,
it's great to see that Jabra really took the initiative
to give people that color option.
Whereas a lot of the competition right now,
I don't see it as the option.
So your hybrid work environment,
you can really get everything
to look the way you want it to,
which I do think is very important.
- Absolutely. Absolutely.
And I think we'll see more to come on different products
to make working in a hybrid solution more productive.
One of the things I know we've talked about in the past
is our PanaCast devices,
so the cameras,
I'm using one today.
I think if you invite us back to another SIP Chat sometime,
we'll take a look at our PanaCast 20
a little bit more in depth,
which is more our personal video camera.
So it really meets the needs of those folks
that need to have a camera
that they can take with them as they continue to
maybe go between the home and the office,
and then a camera that suits their individual needs,
not something that's needed for a meeting room
or a conference room,
something really for their home office
or their executive office.
- And I could definitely say,
we will most definitely be having you back on SIP Chats.
We always love what you bring to the table.
And we would love to take a look at the PanaCast 20
more in depth,
and some of the other cameras as well
so we can keep helping our users
be more educated on this hybrid work environment
and really how to set it up the best to your needs.
Jessica, do you have anything else
that you would like to add to SIP Chats today?
- I think that covers it for us today,
but I appreciate you having us on.
And reach out to Brian and the team at VoIP Supply
if you have questions about Jabra products.
But thanks for having us, Brian
- And thank you so much
for taking the time out of your busy day.
We know you're very busy,
and Jabra has been extremely busy
over the past six, 12 months for sure,
which is awesome to see.
But as a reminder to all our viewers and listeners,
my name is Brian Hyrek.
I'm sales expert here at VoIP Supply.
You can reach out to me anytime regarding Jabra
or anything else VoIP,
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This is Brian Hyrek signing off
on another episode of SIP Chats.
Take care, Jessica.
- [Jessica] Thank you.
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