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You don't need to work in a noisy office or coffee shop to appreciate the capabilities of the EMEET OfficeCore M0 Plus Wireless Speakerphone, but if you do, it's pretty amazing. Tech expert and long-time video conference participant Dave Taylor checks out the latest EMEET Bluetooth Speakerphone and finds that there's quite a lot to like with this budget unit.
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This speakerphone will change your conference experience. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the E-Meet Office Core M0 Plus
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wireless speakerphone. So E-Meet, I've already reviewed the M0 and this is the M0 Plus which
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adds significantly Bluetooth connectivity and a 2600 milliamp hour battery meaning you can run it
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wirelessly just like this with any Bluetooth compatible device for up to 10 hours. Pretty
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sweet. The M0 required you to be plugged in and hooked up via wire so this still has that
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capability but it adds Bluetooth. Now in terms of some specs it is 20 to 20,000 hertz out. It's a
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nice little speaker and 100 to 10,000 hertz in so it's focused a little more on voice which is
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what you would expect. It also has something called voice I.O. which gets rid of background noise. I'm
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going to demonstrate that. I have crowd noise all set up. We're going to have some fun with that and
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see how it does. It's full duplex which means you can talk over someone else or they can talk over
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you which is pretty darn important with speakerphones and it has four microphones so it
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has a 360 degree pickup so you just put it in the middle of the table and it'll pick up everyone at
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the table. Now what's really slick is you can actually get two of these and you can daisy chain
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them so if you have a long rectangular table you can have one at each end and they'll work together
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as a single Bluetooth or wired connection and you'll be able to get even that much more coverage
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They say up to 16 people. I haven't tested it with 16 people but that's a lot of people to be on a
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conference that's also on the phone. So very cool. You can connect it via USB-C. As I said there's an
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AUX out so you can use it with headphones or earbuds because you can use this at a coffee shop
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for example if you want to get better audio than that terrible little microphone on your little
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earbuds you could use this as a way to get that to all work better. Now let's have a little closer
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look at that front screen where all the buttons are and I'll give you a quick tour. We have a mute
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button, volume down, volume up, Bluetooth, power, and a battery indicator, and a button that lets you answer
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and end phone calls, and finally there's a status indicator to let you know what's going on
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All of that conveniently right there on the front of the unit. Pretty easy to work with. So I have it
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paired with my computer so that's how I'm going to do these demos. So let's start by getting some
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background noise. So let me first make sure that it's connected. I'm using it with a Macintosh
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but to be totally honest it is Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux compatible. I suspect it's also
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Chromebook compatible but they don't say so. But it's just a simple device so you get audio out
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and let's see if I want to go and let's just play some music so you can hear what that sounds like
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So I can turn the volume up and there's not much bass there but you don't expect a lot of bass
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Hang on let's see. Let me go ahead and pause that music. So there's not a lot of bass but that's exactly what you
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would expect because it is designed for voice so it actually makes sense from a functionality
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perspective. Now let's go and I'm going to do a recording but before I start the recording
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let's go ahead I'm going to give it crowd noise. This is supposed to simulate me being in a bar or
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a pub. So let's hear this sound. So I'm going to turn it towards me and we'll make it a little louder
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It's a pretty loud bar and of course the way that I record this video with this microphone
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there's nothing to block background noise. So now with this paired with my Macintosh I'm going to
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go and do a recording and what you hear now is me speaking and it's still has all that background
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noise but the voice AM system is getting rid of as much of it as it can so you can hear it doesn't
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it's actually quiet. You don't hear that at all so let me switch back so you can see that I still get
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crowd noise. So let's go ahead and switch and so now you can hear I'm still in that bar but this
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has done a remarkable job of getting rid of that background noise. Now speaking of background noise
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it's hard to talk when you're in a bar right it's hard to talk when you're in a loud environment a
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busy coffee shop, a school cafeteria, an office where there's just too many darn people stuck in
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the same small amount of space. So this is a great demo that gives you a chance to hear just how well
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this does and then the third thing I want to point out while we're in and have this connected to the
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computer is that there's also something called E-Meet Link which is an app you can get for your
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Windows or your Mac system and as you can see on this screenshot it gives you access to a lot of
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features. You will have to have the unit plugged in via USB-C to be able to actually use this app
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and it does give you the ability to update firmware which is pretty important because it
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turns out these speaker phones especially when you first get it always check to see if there's
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been an update. Generally you don't see a lot of updates drop it's not like Windows where every
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four days or Mac where it's every couple of weeks it's way less frequent than that but you still
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want to be on the latest firmware and that's really everything I've got. So dimensions wise
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let me tell you that it's four and a half inches by four and a half inches by 1.6 inches and it's
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really light at 8.8 ounces and that includes that 2600 milliamp hour 10 hour battery so it is a
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little taller than the previous unit was but really easy to work with once you've paired it with your
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device once you're going to be able to just jump right back onto it and just get onto your call
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It is compatible with Zoom and Microsoft Teams and Skype and BlueJeans and really any software
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you'd use it would work with FaceTime because it becomes a microphone and a speaker for whatever
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device it's paired with or connected to via the wire and then the device just says okay well you
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know if you're going to want to start up a video chat or something then I'll just use that for the
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appropriate inputs and outputs. Super easy to work with lots to like and the price is really great
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in fact it's very affordable a very easy way for you to upgrade your mobile or a digital nomad or
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road warrior kit. So we're going to talk about the price but before we get to the price let me ask if
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you could subscribe to my channel click or tap on that subscribe button click on that notification
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appreciate a like or a thumbs up excellent. Now I do want to say one more thing is that it does include
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a useful set of instructions this folds out as you would expect and it also includes a USB-A to USB-C
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charging cord which of course is also a connectivity cord unless like me you have a computer that only
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has USB-C and then this isn't going to cut the bill so you're going to have to use your own USB-C
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to USB-C cable not a big crisis pretty easy to manage. So this is the E-Meet Office Core M0 Plus
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wireless speakerphone and it's $59.99 currently minus 20% on Amazon dropping it down to a remarkable
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$47.99 at Amazon.com for under $50 this is a game changer for the audio side of any conferences
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that you're doing if you're still stuck on Zoom or anything like that this is an absolute game
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changer definitely one to check out further that's all I got so I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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