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Do you spend a lot of time on conference calls? Are you tired of people saying you sound like you're "a thousand miles away"? Smartphones are good at a lot of things, but they really aren't a replacement for a decent speakerphone. Like the office-ready eMeet OfficeCore M1 wireless bluetooth speakerphone.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the M1 and finds that it's a significant improvement over using a computer or smartphone for calls, whether it's so your kids can chat with grandma or so you can talk about the new acquisition with high-powered Manhattan lawyers and accountants.
Learn more about the M1: http://amzn.to/2yvRNO5
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will this change how you talk on the
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phone let's check it out Dave Taylor
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here and this time I'm looking at a
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hands-free speakerphone system that's
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this this is the office core m1 from a
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company called
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Amith and they call this their wireless
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conference speakerphone and it's pretty
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slick you can see it's sort of like a
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hockey puck just a big fancy tech hockey
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puck but it has an array of microphones
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all around it and it connects via
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bluetooth and so this means that yes I
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can use it from music not really
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designed for music so we'll stop that
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it's not doesn't have any bass or
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anything it's really for phone calls of
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course it's for phone calls so let's see
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if maybe if I'm hanging around here I
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can get a phone call to come in ah a
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phone call coming in so I'll answer it
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hi this is Dave I am but I'm in the
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middle of recording a video so I'll have
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to call you back okay
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okay okay thanks bye
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as you can see it's easy to answer the
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call and do everything with just the m1
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which is great and I don't know if you
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caught it but since it has directional
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microphones or what they call a
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microphone array then the light actually
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points to where it's hearing sound it's
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very similar to the system that you see
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unlike at Amazon echo so this as I said
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is the e meat office core m1 wireless
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conference speakerphone now it has what
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they call far field voice recognition
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and the idea with that and let me just
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show you what it looks like right the
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idea with that is that you can be pretty
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far away and this becomes really nice
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not just in a conference room but it's
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really nice for family phone calls so
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maybe you have little ones and you want
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to have a call with Grandma and they're
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not going to hold the phone because they
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want to move around so you can put this
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for example on your coffee table in
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front of the couch and the kids can
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wander around the room but it'll still
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hear them and it turns out it has seven
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different microphones built-in so
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there's six around the edges and there's
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one I pretty sure there's one that
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they've tucked right there in the middle
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and it's what they call an
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omnidirectional pick up as a tricky word
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omnidirectional pick up ring light
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display as you saw and it's a nice
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battery setup because it actually has 24
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hours of talktime on a charge and it can
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be on standby for a month which means
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that if you just get into the practice
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of every Monday morning you charge it
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for the week then it's good to go and
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you don't have to worry about it and of
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course it's very portable since it
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doesn't need any wires and it's working
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with bluetooth on your device whether
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it's an iPhone or an Android or whatever
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then gives you lots of flexibility it
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also works with Siri and Google now and
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such so I can say hey Siri what time is
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it
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the time at 12:53 pinyin so there you go
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and that's all coming through this
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device which is really nice now of
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course it also showed up on my phone but
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maybe my phone's in my pocket or in my
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purse if I had a purse in my backpack
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whatever so really nice if you're on
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Android it'll work with Google now the
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company has a partner app for an Android
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not yet for the iPhone but on Android
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the partner app actually does language
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translation and speech to text too so it
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can keep a sort of transcript of the
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conversation though my guest since I
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haven't tested this but my guess is that
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it's probably not gonna be great but hey
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it's something and you can clean it up
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afterwards really nice
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so Bluetooth 4.1 and USB and let me give
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you just a quick close up here is you
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can see there are five buttons on the
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top volume up and down there's a mute
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button right in the middle super
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convenient and the answer or a hang up
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button is the little phone handset and
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then on the top is Bluetooth and the
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light shows you that the Bluetooth is
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actually connected as you know because
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we just took phone call and then on the
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side there's a power button and if you
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open up this little rubber thing you can
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see here there's a USB connection if you
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want to charge a device if you're in an
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emergency situation or something and
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then the microUSB is how you actually
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charge the office core m1 itself so
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really a lot to like about this device
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and you know I will say however is that
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it's still a speakerphone there's no
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magic about it so if I was able to
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actually ask the person on the other
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side do I sound like I'm on a handset or
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headset or speakerphone then the
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feedback I've gotten consistently from
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other people is you're on a speakerphone
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but it sounds really good so you can't
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fool someone into thinking you're
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actually on like some you know corded
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Wired's device that's sitting right
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there right by your mouth but that's the
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nature of the beast
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the fact is is that putting this in the
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middle of a conference table or putting
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this right by your couch so your kids
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can talk to Grandma that's a big win now
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before I tell you the only other thing
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which is the price let me ask you for
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I'm doing okay now with all of that done
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let me tell you the price the Ameet
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office corps m1 is a hundred and seventy
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nine dollars and ninety nine cents at
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amazon.com which makes it pretty spendy
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if you're gonna use it as a music
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speaker but it's not a music speaker
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it's really designed for doing
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conference calls and hands-free calls
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and stuff like that and I know that my
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daughter really appreciates it because
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she puts it on her desk while she's
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working and then she can chat with her
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friends and it sounds really pretty
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decent so this is Dave Taylor this is
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the office core m1 I say check it out if
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you need this sort of device it's a
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pretty nice solution and I'll catch you
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in my next video
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