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…
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…
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…
Most of the brands covered so far in this series sell a box: a headset, a video bar, a display. Mago sells none of that. It sells the layer that sits on top of whatever box is already in the room, and its pitch is refreshingly blunt: stop locking customers into one hardware ecosystem just…
Before any verdict on whether Neat has earned its market position or simply burned through a generous Zoom cheque, it helps to know what Neat actually is, who built it, what it sells, and how it’s priced. This post lays that foundation. The “market share or money dump” question gets its own piece later —…
