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Plantronics - Voyager 5200 (Poly) - Bluetooth Over-the-Ear (Monaural) Headset - Compatible to connect to Cell Phones - Noise Canceling

I've been with Plantronics 5200 for over 6 months and can tell you the most important benefit is the external noise cancellation, it works very well; I tried it with an app that records audio and also asked my wife if she could guess where I was, she will never be able to figure it out. When I have work conferences in WebEx, I can leave the microphone on and they never ask me to mute it because it doesn't generate noise. In conclusion, the calls really only focus on what I say. I've detected that the noise canceling takes about 3-4 seconds to clear from the start of the call, I guess that's how long it takes to 'process' the external noise The design is another good quality, compared to other handsfree I dare say this is the best. However, in this attribute there is not much to say, it is up to individual discretion and taste. As for the hearing aid, I can compare it with a Motorola 155 that I bought a long time ago and with Plantronics 5200 I have never stopped listening to what they tell me, no matter how loud; In the case of the Motorola 155, I could stop listening to the message if there was a lot of noise. By accident, I fell from a distance of about 1 meter and had a slight crack in the part microphone. I was hoping that for the price I paid ($2000) the quality of the materials would hold up to crashes like this. I consider this as a point against. There are times when I'm on a call, I look down to check something on the PC or iPad and it disconnects, I guess it's a software problem and I hope they fix it with an update. It is comfortable to use, at one point I used it for long periods of 3-4 hours and it can be uncomfortable, but the same happened to me with the Motorola 155. I prefer to use it only when I'm going to make or receive calls and take it out of my ear when I don't need it. The battery works but I've read that some Jabras offer more than 7-8 hours, in the case of Plantronics 5200, it lasts 4-5 hours of use, it has made me depend a bit more on constant charges while I'm traveling in the car or there's a case that charges it while it's stored but they sell it separately .Yes, I recommend it. To make the decision to buy it, I did an exhaustive research and due to the attributes it offers, it seems to me that it is the best that exists in the market. I hope the value for money will allow me to use it longer than average, I bought it on Amazon because in other stores it cost up to 2,700. It arrived almost a week longer late but it was worth the 700 pesos I saved. The problem with Amazon deliveries is that they give you a very wide range of deliveries, so we wasted the day waiting for them to arrive. I don't know if with Prime you can choose what time it arrives, but they might reduce its delivery range. Finally I want to say that at the time I bought it they were announcing the new apple air pods and although I don't think they are removing the audio Same as Plantronics I think they are a competitor interesting potential; especially for the software-hardware integration that characterizes Apple so well. The Plantronics 5200 software-hardware integration seems poor and outdated to me, I hope to see better models in the future.