Plantronics CS500 Series Offer
The recent Plantronics promotion offering a free handset lifter has been a great success and helped launch their new wireless headset range into the market. Fortunately we still have some of the free lifters in our warehouse, so while stocks last we are happy to continue the promotion as follows:
Order one of the new Plantronics telephony headsets: CS540, CS510 or CS520 and receive a Savi HL10 Lifter absolutely FREE – Value $83!
Plantronics CS500 Series Wireless Headsets
Plantronics legendary CS family is setting a new wireless standard for desk phone communication with the CS500™ Series, which features the lightest DECT™ headset on the market, a new streamlined design and improved performance. Go mobile and multi-task up to 350 feet from your desk with answer, end and mute controls at your fingertips. And no matter what your preference, with three wearing choices there’s one to match your personal style. Enjoy the sleek contemporary design of the new system, premium wideband audio quality and wireless mobility, all with the same reliability for hands-free productivity that has made the CS family a best seller for nearly a decade. With the new CS500 Series we are raising the bar once again for desk phone headset systems.
A Brief History of the Wireless Headset
Did you know there are some 82 million office workers in the USA that use the telephone and that an International Study has nearly 50% spending more time on the phone than 5 years ago?
About 50 million don’t use a headset, despite some 31 million suggested they were interested in getting their first one.
I imagine the figures would be comparable per capita in Australia.
Wireless headsets are used by only 1%.
Let’s go back to the discovery of the headset then fill in some blanks about the development of wireless headset, up to the present.
The original headset is attributed to Nathaniel Baldwin in 1910. As an inventor of many “electric” products, This product got a lift from a US Navy order, just before WW1 and then the growth of radio during the “roaring 20′s”.
In all fairness it should probably have been called a headphone as it probably consisted of earphones only, and not a microphone.
Wireless microphones were first and introduced in 1951, consisting of a microphone and transmitter that allowed the wearer complete freedom to talk and even sing, (My Fair Lady ) unencumbered by wires.
In 1961 two former pilots started Plantronics, a company founded to fulfill the need for the design and manufacture of light ,mission critical headsets embraced by NASA. The need for a fully portable, in the space suit, two way communication system instantly became evident and credit is given to Astronaut “Wally” Schirra for getting the ball rolling . Previously, when “Gus ” Grissom had to abandon his capsule after landing in the ocean, his communication system went down with the ship.
On October 3 1962, Shirra wore the first Plantronics headset in outer space.
In July 1969, Neil Armstrong ‘s famous words came from a somewhat comparable Plantronics wireless headset system.
Although not the first with the business critical product, Plantronics introduced a first generation telephone wireless headset system in March, 2003 and have continued to provide continuous product improvement ever since.
The Wireless Headset business in its infancy. Mobility, comfort, convenience, and affordability: what else is required for sustainability and growth with a product?
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