JabraSpeak 710 UC Wireless Bluetooth Speakerphone with Link 370 USB Adapter – Portable Conference Speaker for Holding Meetings Anywhere with Immersive Sound - Certified for Zoom & Google Meet

I just love this device! I had two different needs that various "bluetooth speakers" try to address: speakerphone and music. I first considered devices more aimed at music - like the JBL Charge, but their speakerphone performance isn't as good as this, they're bulkier, and they generally use a separate charger/usb-cable. I also tried having two separate devices like a Jabra Speak 510 for calls and another bluetooth speaker for music, but that just makes things messy and complicated. Finally, I tried the 710 (this device) and it meets both my needs really well. Call quality is fantastic and music sounds really good with respectable bass. It's not a bass-shaker, but it's plenty for me to occasionally rock-out in my office :) And plenty loud for multimedia presentations in a meeting room.It's also extremely convenient and easy to use.* It has a permanently attached USB cable that stores neatly around the base and can be used to charge the device while you're using it.* The battery lasts a long time between charges.* Easy to use in that the touch controls around the edge are very intuitive and responsive.* The built-in kick-stand is actually useful for projecting the sound further in a particular direction, like towards an audience.I haven't had to use the included USB bluetooth dongle, but nice to know it's there.All around, it's a great device that does everything it advertises to do, does them well, and looks good too!

Once the remote working situation began in earnest, I began getting too many complaints from using the default microphone and speakers on my laptop, so I began researching a better microphone/speaker setup.I began the research thinking that headsets were going to be the only thing that would work for good sound, but I was really reluctant to spend the day wearing a headset. Further, there are some Zoom calls where my entire family will interact with people on the other end, so a headset would not have been ideal there.I ended up going with this Jabra 710, and it has been just wonderful over the past couple of weeks. It was very easy to setup (less than a minute to connect it via Bluetooth and begin using), easy to customize with the desktop software, and just really simple to use. There are easy touch controls around the dial, and they are very responsive when I increase/decrease volume or go on mute, and the lights very intuitively convey remaining on/off, battery life, sound levels, and mute status without issue. The Bluetooth has never dropped, though note that it is placed pretty close to the laptop.It has decent sound for calls. While certainly not concert worthy like my B&Ws, it is fine for background music and Youtuve videos, and great for voice.I am generally in a bedroom all day, with not a lot of background noise. I also keep this plugged in most of the time since I use it at my desk, though when testing the battery life was about a day and a half of work and I am in meetings nearly all day. I just keep it plugged in because I wanted to skip unplugging it and plugging it back in (especially when I was not really moving it anywhere).Overall, highly recommend for meeting-centric uses. Wish it was a tad more affordable, but at the end of the day I am happy with my purchase because I am never fiddling around with call quality issues on meetings with customers and colleagues, and that is meaningful to me. You can probably get equivalent (or maybe better) with a headset, but then you are limited to one person at a time on your end, and you have to wear a headset a lot of the day if you are in many meetings, and that wasn't for me.

First I bought one to try it. It worked flawlessly out of the box. The controls are extremely simple to use and handy. Being able to quickly tap a large target to mute provides a lot of value. The volume buttons in the Jabra 710 are half the step of the regular on-keyboard volume steps on macOS, this is sweet. The feedback provided by the lights pattern and colors is excellent. The kickstand is small but has a solid build and a soft snap. The audio quality is excellent as pure speakers on a paired stereo configuration they would be quite expensive and difficult to justify. The value is in their use as speakerphones, period. Said this, I got the other and I use them paired. I live conference calls and with the paired set the quality of the sound feels even better and I use it as my default speakers for music and such. I would take half a star off because 1) When paired there is an audio glitch of about a second whenever sound starts to play, is like the software of the speakers negotiating the stereo configuration. This is a just a small glitch but it is annoying, hopefully, there will be a firmware update to optimize this. 2) Pairing is lost when they are powered down. 3) When I sleep my MBP I need to wait some seconds to be able to power the speakers down or they just power up again. But these things are minor and likely to be addressed on a firmware update. Overall this is a go if you want to make to have conference calls with the best audio possible.