The communications solution for your home office has arrived…so says Plantronics with their coolly packaged Calisto Pro Bluetooth wireless headset DECT 6.0 cordless phone. We gave this newly launched model a test drive and were frankly, a bit disappointed. Plantronics is clearly a headset company and it shows. Though it has some cool features like Outlook contact number integration and Skype compatibility, Plantronics has some learning to do in the phone department. 
 

If you’re a home office worker who uses a headset all day long, you’ll likely be pleased. The headset is comfortable, voice quality is strong and we didn’t encounter any interference. We really liked the belt clip of the phone itself since it allowed you to “flip the phone up” without removing it from your belt to see Caller ID info or to scroll through the phone menu. Plantronics, curiously, put some design effort into the suitcase-style packaging of the box. Though the phone, base/charger and headset have a decent design, I would like to have seen the suitcase-style box packaging effort applied to the phone itself. The phone is short enough, but it would have been cool if it was a bit thinner…a la Razr cell phone or VTech’s new cordless phones.

I’d say that this one is ok…kinda like an average American sedan. If Bluetooth around the home office is a must-have, you may like this model. Voice clarity of the handset itself is lacking. The headset has great clarity…but, you’d expect this from Plantronics. My preference would be a Siemens Gigaset or Philips cordless phone with a good quality headset like the Plantronics H61N.

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