Audio technology for truly clear voice capture needed a physical boom arm for a long time, and that’s likely why Jabra stuck with it as long as they did — that’s my own read on it, not something Jabra has said outright. But Jabra doesn’t tend to ship something unless they’re confident it works, and…
I’ve been using Microsoft Teams for years at my previous job, and now that I’m at a new organisation running Google Meet, I have to say, it’s genuinely impressive. Which makes it stranger that when I use it with a Teams-certified Jabra headset, raising the microphone boom arm to mute doesn’t sync into the app…
As a big Jabra fan, I was surprised and pleased to see HDMI bypass added to the PanaCast U30 when it launched in May 2026. It’s one of the very few things missing from the masterpiece: the PanaCast 50 — my all-time favourite, and one of the best-selling video bars ever invented. Jabra takes time…
BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. In meeting rooms, that means the room itself needs a laptop or PC connected to it to actually run the conferencing software, while the room’s own hardware supplies the AV side — camera, speakers, microphone. That’s the same category our meeting room hardware guide breaks down in more…
Walk into most modern offices across the Arabian Gulf and you can notice the chair has clearly had thought put into it — lumbar support, adjustable arms, a price tag somewhere between 600 dirhams/riyals and 1,500 dirhams/riyals because everyone agrees sitting for eight hours a day deserves a real investment. Then look at what’s clipped…
Of every brand covered in this series, Cisco carries the longest history and the most expensive reputation. For close to two decades, that reputation also came with a closed-door policy: build the room, build the codec, build the network it all runs on, and keep the customer inside Cisco’s own walls. The fact that Cisco…
There’s a running joke in this industry that if your company hands you a ThinkPad, you can kiss your work-life balance goodbye — the brand is that synonymous with the hard-working, always-on laptop culture of startups and demanding enterprises alike. What gets missed in that joke is that Lenovo has spent close to a decade…
Meeting room technology used to mean one thing: a speakerphone in the middle of a table, picking up whoever leaned in close enough. Today the same job can be solved by at least seven genuinely different categories of hardware, ranging from a $40 wireless dongle to a system that also dims the lights and closes…
Headsets carry a stubborn reputation as call-centre equipment — something an agent wears because they’re on the phone all day, not something a regular office worker, a hybrid employee, or a warehouse picker would ever need. That assumption shrinks the market and misses most of the actual reasons a professional headset earns its place. The…
Joan Workplace sells itself as an all-in-one platform for booking rooms, desks, parking, and visitors, with a chatbot built in for good measure. None of that is what makes Joan worth a second look. The interesting part is the small screen mounted outside the meeting room door — because unlike almost every other room display…
