Never Lose Your Plantronics Device With Find MyHeadset!
Developer’s Description: Customers depend on their headsets and love their compact size but small devices can also be easy to misplace. Find MyHeadsetTM is a mobile app designed to help Plantronics customers locate their missing headsets. Regardless of whether the headset is on or off, charged or not, recently missing, or lost for weeks, Find MyHeadsetTM offers people two unique ways to find their Plantronics device:
1.Send a Tone plays a tone on any powered on and connected Plantronics headset to enable the customer to hear where their device is hiding.
2.BackTrackTM displays the date, time and Google-mapped location of the last several headset events recorded by the phone. Customers can retrace their steps to remember the last location where they used their headset.
Cost: Free
Category: Productivity
Author: Plantronics
Platform: Android
JUDGES REVIEW
Plantroni’cs Find MyHeadset does what it says it does, but not great. Setup and pairing was completely pain-free. It found and connected with my Plantronics BackBeat Go Stereo Bluetooth headset in seconds. The main problem appears to be the volume of the signal. Interestingly, when you test the three signal options, the signal from your phone can be made very loud if the volume is turned up so you’re thinking, “great, I’ll find my headset no matter where it is,” but in practice the tone that comes from the headset itself is very faint even at the highest volume setting. At least “Minimize background noise by shutting windows, turning off other audio, etc.” is given as advice in the FAQs. As mentioned, there are are only three tone options but you can easily imagine Plantronics providing the ability to let users select and create ringtones and customized signals like a recording of the user yelling, “hey, I’m over here!” The “Backtrack” feature is interesting. It logs when you make and receive calls and when you connect and disconnect your headset as events so you can access these events on a map if you’re trying to locate a headset you left behind somewhere. It worked for me, but the FAQs refer to a “short history” and I didn’t have chance to test what that actually means. At the end of the day this is a useful free app to have on your phone if you’re a heavy headset user. I lose things all the time, but not usually my headset so I’ll stash this in my “tools” folder and know that it’s there if I need it.
- Barry Myers
