Plantronics – Voyager 5200 UC (Poly) – Bluetooth Single-Ear (Monaural) Headset – USB-A Compatible to connect to your PC and/or Mac – Works with Teams, Zoom & more – Noise Canceling

The boom swivels up and down a little bit more stiffly (maybe temporarily) than older models. Otherwise, it is the same great headset I have always worn. (my 4th time with this basic style over many years of use.) I don’t listen to music with it. I use it while walking the dog and listening to audiobooks or talking on the phone. Noise-canceling is fabulous. and there is often wind in my area, no one ever complains. It’s so comfortable that most of the time I don’t even remember it’s there.It gets a 6hr and 50 minutes charge on each charge standing in the case. The charging case has its own cord to charge it up. I was worried I might need to swivel it around to put it in the case but it goes right in to the case regardless of which ear you have it swiveled to. The Dongle works so well that I couldn’t figure out what was happening. The zoom meeting conversation went straight into my earpiece before I even realized what was hapening! I am teaching English (ESL) on Zoom and could really hear the students so well via the dongle. I am loving it. My previous one lasted 2 years and one month. Don’t bother buying an extra warranty since the company is great with product help even after the warranty is over. for those who are worried, mine came in a brown box but it’s all I hoped for and I didnt have to buy the case separately for $39. BTW, the packaging is small and all recyclable cardboard! NO PLASTIC! Hallelujah. Made in Mexico so it didn’t come across the ocean and pollute the seas or get stuck in the SUEZ! Please take it to be responsibly recycled at a resource recovery destination after the end of its life since the battery is integrated and not replaceable.

I have a Plantronics Voyager Pro that I bought 12 years ago, and it is still going strong with 4 hours of battery life. I lost 2 hours of battery capacity over this last year. I decided to upgrade and purchase this Voyager 5200 to work with my desk phone and Skype calls using UC. I love this headset! The sound quality is great, and the volume goes up quite loud, which is nice for those videos with low volume….. I like that I have the ability to change the programming using the phone and desktop app. Overall this was a great purchase. I get between 6 and 7 hours of audio listening. It is also nice that I can control Google Assistant and PlayPause videos and Audio all from the headset. I do get complaints from people on the other end of a call because they can hear lots of background noise around me if I am in a noisy environment, but in an office environment it works great and cancels out constant sound like fans and such.Update 09-08-2022:I now seem to have issues with this headset. The volume buttons on the phone do not control the headset volume. It just bounces up and down, and I have to use the software slider on my phone to change volume. Pressing the software volume up and down give the same bouncing result for me. I have since reset the phone to defualt, as well as use the headset with other devices, and the results are not great. My old, now 13 years old, Plantronics Voyager headset still works great, although the battery only last 2-3 hours on it. I wish I could buy new old stock of the original PLantronics voyager. They were great! Other issues I have with the 5200 is the sound is choppy and controls do not work to pause, and bookmark correctly. Again, other headsets work fine. The more I use the 5200, the more I dislike it. The sound quality is just not comparible to other headsets.In conclusion, I would not buy this headset uless they release a patch to fix all the issues. There are far better ones out there. I do believe this is software related as the headset seems to get worse every time I update the firmware.Update: 2022-01-18 – Now the microphone has died as well.

Very comfortable, just hangs on my ear, though it doesn’t go in my ear canal at all so that took some getting used to. Most people say I sound great, but sometimes there are others who say not so much. An unexpected feature: when I take off the headset for someone to talk to me, it pauses the video I’m watching; cool! I’m suprised at the battery life; maybe 8 hours. Won’t sync to my computer, though, without the USB dongle for bluetooth, despite my computer having bluetooth functionality. Connects to both my phone and my computer. The carrying case is awesome, with a battery for recharging on the go (charges about three times)! And the quick-charge battery feature is stellar, so lower battery life isn’t a real issue.

This is my second one

I’ve used this headset for two years. I typically start my day at 6:30 am by listening to the news for three hours over this headset. At 9:00 am I take work calls throughout the day and attend webinars. It’s light enough that I forget it’s there. My podcasts pause automatically when I take a call and resume immediately after hanging up. Taking calls in the car are no different than an office environment, background noise is rarely an issue. By 3:30 I get a battery low message but 15 minutes in the battery case and I’m back in business. With the USB receiver I can take Teams calls or Zoom meetings on my PC and still listen to podcasts on my iPhone. However, I spend a lot of time in server rooms and climbing in and around racks of equipment and it can slip of my ear in these environments whereas other earpieces can mount more securely, those tended to hurt my ears; everything in life is a tradeoff. When it finally died after two years I bought the exact same thing again.