Anker PowerConf Speakerphone, Zoom Licensed Convention Speaker with 6 Mics, 360° Enhanced Voice Pickup, 24H Name Time, Bluetooth 5.3, USB C, Suitable with Main Platforms for Private Workspaces

works great with an iphone and conference call with a small group and remote people
OK. So for too long we have used an iphone in the middle of the table for conference calls, small group with a couple remote people. I have kept thinking we should get a speaker phone, but all of us being busy and no one making time to look into it, well…What we had sort of worked, and a previous conference call speaker from a few years ago I had, had not impressed me, so that impeded me from thinking positive about trying another one.Anyhow, I finally decided to look into it, spend an hr reading reviews. Going in to it thinking I should be able to get something for $50 or so. But reading reviews and I kept coming back to this one or another brand with an older model.Not that the cost was a big deal, but I don’t like spending company money on useless gadgets, I do that well enough when I’m not at the office. I have also had a good experience with other Anker products.TLDRAnyway, we gave this speaker a test earlier this week and I must say it worked great. Battery charged, connected with bluetooth to iphone and started the call. Remote people could hear us great, and we could hear them great without turning up the speaker all the way… Used it for about 2hrs, battery claims it can run all day, and it just might.So if you have a similar situation like I did until now, this conference call speaker is likely worth the money!

Decent for this price point
I am pretty happy with this unit, mainly for what I got at a decent price. At our office we have several of the Jabra 410 and I had a 510 on my wish list for a long time but they are usually over $150 dollars. This is cheaper and almost as good for most intents and purposes, just has a few buggy flukey things I don’t like.I have been happy with the sound quality from the speaker and people seem to hear me just fine, even with an air conditioner running in the background or the speaker sitting next to my laptop on a cooling pad with a slightly noisy/humming fan. It does seem to have legit noise cancellation technology at work. The signal processing that cuts out that kind of background noise also drops the fidelity of my voice just a smidge but not in an offensive way, and I’d rather have my voice sound a little processed than have people hear a humm or buzzing of AC in the background.Bluetooth is easy to pair and USB-C is plug and play with windows 10.As another reviewer noted, the volume steps are kinda large and the lowest volume setting is still quite loud. You cannot fine tune it on your device as others have said. I’m OK with it as is still. The speaker can get very loud and has decent enough bass for some light music listening, but that would never be considered its primary purpose. One thing I recently found that I really don’t like is that the unit will automatically un-mute audio on a windows 10 PC, that is frustrating. I suppose they are trying to idiot-proof things but if I hit the audio mute I want it to stick, this thing will unmute the computer audio repeatedly.Touch controls are just ok, some of the competition is the same way. There is no feedback without physical buttons but oh well. I think its a little wicked how they put all the controls so close together with them being non-physical buttons, pretty easy to hit the hang-up button while trying to go for the mute it seems like, but then again the hang up button only seems to work for phones and not for PC (not for Microsoft Teams, anyway) so weirdly enough mostly a non-issue for me.I haven’t tried it with a group of people yet.There is an app which had a firmware update, the update added options for a single user mode or a multi-user mode. I complained about this on their support forums because there is no hardware controls for this, it can only be toggled in the app so those using the speaker with a computer still need to download app and pair their phone to check and set that setting. There is also no way to tell on the device itself which mode it is in. My concern is that I would accidentally have it in single user mode and try to use it with a group on my computer, and then have it be cutting people out. Not really a concern if you are always using this device the same way but I bounce back and forth so I just leave it in multi-user mode even when using it by myself. I don’t get whatever benefits single-user mode should provide but oh well.Build quality is good, fit and finish is good, looks professional. A nice tool in the bag for a young professional but if you can snag a Jabra 510 for close to the same price, the Jabra is all around a better product.

Great product especially during current ‘WFH’ environment.

Having bought a conference phone during covid for working from home I always had issues. Ending up on the headset most of the day. However upgrading to the Anker is a revelation, it works with MS teams with no issues and people tell me the sound quality is great and I can certainly hear call my end perfectly. It seems very well constructed with a high quality feel. It was on offer when I bought so very happy with the price and usual quick and easy delivery. So 5 stars for me. Great improvement for my home office and used 4-5 hours a day now.