{"id":273763,"date":"2018-08-22T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=273763"},"modified":"2018-08-22T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T17:52:50","slug":"can-use-softphone-phone-instead-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/can-use-softphone-phone-instead-headset\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Use My Softphone with a Phone Instead of a Headset?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our tech support team at VoIP Supply offers great <\/span><a href=\"\/services\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'service');\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pre- and post-sales support<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> plus provisioning, consultations, configuration, and installation help. We get a lot of VoIP hardware and software questions and would like to share the solutions with everyone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">previous Mom\u2019s calling Q&amp;A series<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we have discussed:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/polycom-phones-vs-yealink-phones-differences\/\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'last post');\">Polycom Phones vs Yealink Phones: What are the differences?<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, we have more new real questions and answers from VoIP users just like you. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-273803\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/softphone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/softphone.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/softphone-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/softphone-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2018\/08\/softphone-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>Can I Use My Softphone with a Phone Instead of a Headset?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong> I am looking for something that can work as a softphone, but am not interested in headsets as we are a patient facing aesthetics office. Our desktop skype for business (Teams) apps are set up as the controller for calls. I am looking for something that functions as a headset, but looks like a phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A:<\/strong> Well, a softphone implies the use of a device other than a desk phone. It\u2019s usually a laptop or a smartphone running an app. The only way to avoid a headset is using a speakerphone which can have suspect audio quality or background noise. You can consider <\/span><a href=\"\/plantronics-calisto-p240-m\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'plantronics calisto');\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Plantronics Calisto P240-M<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">portable USB handset for PC communications that has been optimized for Microsoft Teams. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>STAY TUNED<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come back for more VoIP questions and answers next time! If you have VoIP questions to ask us, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">please submit a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/getsupport\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">technical support ticket<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or contact our VoIP experts today at (866) 582-8591 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our tech support team at VoIP Supply offers great pre- and post-sales support plus provisioning, consultations, configuration, and installation help. We get a lot of VoIP hardware and software questions and would like to share the solutions with everyone. In previous Mom\u2019s calling Q&amp;A series, we have discussed:\u00a0Polycom Phones vs Yealink Phones: What are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[6133],"class_list":["post-273763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-voip","tag-voip-headsets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273823,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273763\/revisions\/273823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}