[geeks] Wired headset phones...?

[Phil Stracchino]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Can anyone recommend to me a good, currently-available, wired headset
> phone and an inexpensive source?  I have a Plantronics T10 here, but
> it's developed a severe white-noise problem, plus it draws so much
> current that if any other extension on the same line is picked up,
> no-one can hear anything.  I've found inexpensive listings for the
> Plantronics Practica T50, but I've also found rather too many user
> reviews saying that it's a useless piece of junk with no mute button and
> a volume slider that goes all the way from "inaudible" to "merely
> unintelligible".
> 
> I'd accept a handset phone with a built-in headset jack, especially if
> it allowed me to go off-hook on the headset without physically picking
> up the handset.

Forgot to add:  A caller-ID display would be nice.


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