The Jabra Dial 520OC rulez (and no I'm not sponsored by Jabra)

I recently received a couple of UC devices (optimized for OCS) from Jabra including the Dial 520 OC USB Phone. This is still a prototype, but I must say that already love this thing!

The BIG advantage of this device is that it looks like a phone and works like a phone... meaning, I think a lot of Communicator users will find it much easier to adopt this device than for instance a headset or the Polycom CX200. Especially laptop users, because dialing a regular telephone number using a dial pad is much easier than using the keys on a laptop. Also the phone is small and easy to take with you. The quality of the sound is great, although the audio level could be a little bit higher by default (Jabra said they will fix this in the final product). The phone completely integrates in Communicator without any driver/software installation requirements.

There are still some things to improve I think, like for instance a speaker phone function. Also the USB cable is a little bit too long and too thick. Ideally this should be a wireless devices of course, but that might be an option for version 2.0.

For more info see:

http://www.jabra.com/sites/Jabra/GNImages/Campaigns/OC/M520%20OC%20PRODUCT%20SHEET_EMEA_LOW_5894.pdf