WHY DO YOU NEED GOOD PASSIVE HEADSET DESIGN COMBINED WITH ACTIVE NOISE CANCELING (ANC) TO ACHIEVE OPTIMAL NOISE CANCELING PERFORMANCE?

Passive Noise Reduction
Any stereo headset or headphone will provide some level of passive noise reduction. In fact, any device that provides a physical barrier to your ear canal will limit your exposure to noise. Industrial noise canceling headphones fit over the ear and are specially constructed to maximize noise filtering. They are packed with layers of high-density foam or other sound-absorbing material, which makes them heavier than other headphones but reduces the background noise by about 15 to 20 dB. This level of noise reduction is essential in workplaces with extreme noise levels, such as airport ground crew areas or factories. Not every work environment requires that level of noise canceling, however. For office workers, a more lightweight, over-the-ear or in-the-ear headset typically provides the required passive noise reduction more comfortably.

Active Noise Canceling (ANC)
Beyond passive noise canceling, which involves physically blocking sound, ANC is a technology built into many of our products that further enhances the user experience. This technology uses additional microphones on the back of each speaker that respond well to low-frequency (80 to 700 Hz) background noise.
These microphones pick up the background noise, feed it into the ANC circuitry, invert it, then direct it into the same audio path. This happens very quickly, <500 milliseconds, which is not perceptible to the user.
The result? The original background noise and the inverted noise cancel each other, leaving just the audio the user wants to hear.

WHY ARE THERE TWO LEVELS OF ANC ON VOYAGER 8200 UC (MID AND HIGH)?
The Voyager 8200 UC features two levels of ANC. The first one, “mid,” is set at a similar level to the Voyager Focus UC, optimized for typical office noise. The second level “high,” is about double the intensity of the mid level. The high-level ANC is very useful for noisier environments, such as airports or coffee shops, but may be fatiguing for long periods of use in an office environment depending on how sensitive the user is to the effects of ANC. The option to adjust ANC intensity settings allows users to choose their own individual comfort level.

Wherever you work, noise can be distracting. So whether you’re in an open office or on a crowded flight, taking calls or listening to music, the boomless Voyager 8200 UC Bluetooth® headset with active noise canceling lets you focus on what’s important, in comfort and style. Hear music and conversations with complete clarity. All tones, from high to low and everything in between, sound full and natural. Need to tune out distractions? The hi-fi stereo sound and dual-mode active noise canceling cut background noise while the dual-paired microphones keep the focus on your voice. Information about ANC and the Voyager 8200 UC is available at www.plantronics.com/za or by contacting a local South African authorized distributor. 

Plantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments. Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit www.plantronics.com/za

© 2018 Plantronics, Inc. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

64% of employees agree blocking out noise increases their productivity.(1)

Today, work happens everywhere — in busy open-plan offices and contact centers, at home, even coffee shops. This flexibility is great for business and people, but with it comes a new challenge: noise. Distraction caused by noise reduces productivity and well-being and, in contact centers, detracts from a positive customer experience.

Studies show that it takes 23 minutes to recover from distraction(3) and over 58% of employees are distracted multiple times each day.(2) That represents a significant impact on your customers’ businesses you can easily help avert through proven noise reduction strategies and products.

Managing Noise: In the Contact Center

In the contact center, noise remains the biggest complaint among employees(4) and can negatively impact customer satisfaction.(3) But managing noise effectively can raise productivity,2 improve customer experiences(5) and impact the bottom line.(1) Plantronics creates technologies that manage noise to help contact centers be more effective and businesses be more successful.

Customer Service Representative (CSR) - Needs to handle urgent requests from customers quickly and efficiently. Key challenge: Hearing and being heard by customers.

Help Desk Support - Manages intense, often lengthy, customer calls. Key challenge: Wearing headset all day (comfort, battery issues).

Supervisor - Supports CSRs with call assistance and training. Key challenge: Background noise and audio quality on escalated calls.

High-Level Support - Guides and supports CSRs on most challenging calls. Key challenge: Mobility within office to help with urgent situations. 

How do you handle these challenges within your business? 

Contact Center Solutions

Plantronics engineers solutions that help people manage the noise around them so they can be more effective — no matter where they work. Together, we can help your customers reduce distractions caused by noise so their businesses can thrive.The all-day comfort and superior sound quality of our headsets empowers contact center workers to provide exceptional service. Explore how you can provide a better customer experience, and empower your staff with better products, newer technology, and smarter workplace design. The EncorePro series is a great option, delivering the all-new generation communications technology for customer service centers and offices, designed for the future, and built on experience. The EncorePro series is available in South Africa through authorized distributors. More information about solutions available in your local area are available at www.plantronics.com/za 

Plantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments.  Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit www.plantronics.com/za 

1 Oxford Economics, “When the walls come down – the evolution of the workplace.” 2 Plantronics Noise in the Workplace Global Study, 2017. 3 The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress Study from the Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine, 2008. 4 Plantronics Persona Research, 2017. 1 Oxford Economics, “When the walls come down—the evolution of the workplace.” 5 Dimensional Research for ZenDesk, Customer Service and business results: A survey of customer service from mid-size companies, 2013.

Company now offers the industry’s widest range of stereo Bluetooth devices with active noise cancellation 

Johannesburg, South Africa — 23 January 2018 – Plantronics (NYSE: PLT), an audio pioneer and communications technology leader, introduced today the Voyager 6200 UC, the company’s latest addition to its flagship Voyager family of enterprise headsets. The new neckband wearing style features Bluetooth wireless connectivity, a boomless design with comfort-fit earbuds, active noise cancellation (ANC), and integration with major UC applications.  With the addition of Voyager 6200 UC to its line-up, Plantronics is now offering professionals the widest range of stereo Bluetooth devices with ANC of any vendor in market.

“Accommodating individual employee work styles is becoming increasingly important, especially when it comes to retaining millennial and Gen Y talent,” said Alaa Saayed, ICT Principal Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “By offering a wide choice of headsets and letting people choose their preference, IT and line of business managers can create a solid win-win scenario; optimizing the UC and collaboration experience overall for the company, and engendering goodwill with highly valuable personnel.” 

“We continue to hear that noise and distraction are the number one pain-points for office professionals,” said Gavin Sear, Global Product Marketing at Plantronics. “The best way to get people to embrace technology that can help them communicate and collaborate better is by offering choices that speak to their individual work style as well as their lifestyle, whether they’re in or out of the office. The Voyager 6200 UC delivers this versatility with business-grade audio to a new group of users that find existing headset and headphone offerings too limiting.”  The Voyager 6200 UC offers a unique combination of features and benefits unlike any other neckband headset with earbuds in market, including:

• Four omni-directional microphones that listen to sound from all directions and deliver a professional-grade audio experience on both sides of the call, without a microphone boom, via Plantronics “clear talk technology”
• Active and passive noise cancellation, ensuring focus when surrounded by noise and distractions both in and out of the office
• Wide band audio delivering clear PC calls and premium hi-fi stereo, which is especially important when listening to music
• Versatile design, allowing users to listen to calls or media in stereo or simply drop either earbud for single ear use and to be more aware of their surroundings; the neckband discreetly vibrates to indicate an incoming call or alert
• Certification for Microsoft Skype for Business; compatibility with Cisco Jabber, Microsoft Teams and numerous software apps
• The ability to pair up to eight devices and connect to two simultaneously for easy audio management
• Class 1 Bluetooth, providing a wireless range up to 30 meters/98 feet Dynamic mute alert, ensuring optimal productivity by sensing and alerting users via an in-ear whisper if they talk while muted
• Up to 9 hours of talk time, and up to 16 hours of listening time, to communicate and collaborate all day
• Compatibility with Plantronics Manager Pro™, an additional purchase, that enables IT teams to gain insight into every compatible Plantronics headset being used company-wide

Voyager 6200 UC and Plantronics Manager Pro

Voyager 6200 UC is fully supported by Plantronics Manager Pro, which allows IT managers to monitor, manage and maintain devices company-wide, including usage and acoustic analysis. This includes the ability to configure the user experience, manage firmware deployments, and harvest predictive analytics to detect compatibility issues before they become critical. Plantronics Manager Pro is available as a subscription service, sold separately from the Voyager family. 

Voyager 6200 UC will be coming to South Africa soon and will be available in black and sand colours through Plantronics authorized South African partners. More information about features offered within the Voyager Family, and Plantronics Manager Pro are available at www.plantronics.com/za/en   

About Plantronics

Plantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments. Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit plantronics.com. The Bluetooth trademark is owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of the mark by Plantronics, Inc. is under license. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. More information is available at www.plantronics.com/za/en 

Johannesburg, South Africa - 18 January 2018 --Plantronics (NYSE: PLT): Thriving in today’s business environment requires collaboration. The ability for virtual, mobile, or on-premises teams to communicate across devices in real time has become a competitive advantage and a business requirement. A seamless and intuitive Unified Communications solution enables that advantage. The market bears this out. UC deployments are on the rise. According to a 2014 survey on the State of Unified Communications, 57% of respondents have deployed or plan on deploying UC in the next year compared to just 38% in the year before. Those statistics may have changed slightly in the last few years, but the message is clear. And deployment is just step one. The second step is user adoption, and adoption rates are still lagging. If your people think—regardless of the reality—that a UC solution makes it harder to connect and collaborate, they won’t use it.

The way we work is evolving.

Effective collaboration requires clear communication. Today that means allowing people to communicate when and how they choose. As a result, the challenges IT departments face are more significant than ever before. The days of just provisioning equipment are gone. Not only does IT have to accommodate an increasingly mobile and disparate workforce that brings their own technology into the enterprise, IT may be tasked with supporting multiple UC platforms. It is no longer enough to make sure everything in the office works right. IT has to make sure everything for everyone works right everywhere.

User experience matters most. In order to improve user adoption rates and maximize ROI, a collective mindset change is needed. IT can no longer view employees as an active directory listing. Successful adoption comes when IT takes a user-centric approach. IT needs to view employee satisfaction as the first and most important element to a successful UC implementation.

4 steps to improving user adoption.

• Understand how work gets done: People need the ability to utilize the right tool at any time based on their work needs and location —IM, email, or voice; at the desk or around the office, at home or anywhere else.

• Recommend equipment based on employee needs: What are the challenges of different work styles? Equipment should fit the way people work, people shouldn’t have to change the way they work to fit equipment. Employees shouldn’t have to change the way they work best to fit with the equipment IT recommends. 

• Offer diverse training options: Sending a PDF on how to use your new UC application isn’t enough. Just as people have different work styles, they also have different learning styles. The training IT offers should take a variety of learning styles into account. 

• Develop clear policies: Don’t just tell people what you expect from them—explain why. If people don’t understand the reasons why their ingrained ways of doing things need to change, user adoption will suffer.

Multiple devices, one voice.

Making communication seamless across devices is a significant challenge. A Unified Communications solution that can intuitively connect users regardless of their work style is paramount in today’s business environment. Successful adoption depends on IT departments providing people with options that suit them. It’s about changing perspectives. Taking a people-centric approach gives your company the best chance of meeting its UC business goals.

Unified communications enable teams to work and interact with each other from virtually anywhere. We provide organizations with technology that brings clarity and integration to your UC devices and platforms—to simplify deployment, increase adoption, and help provide real ROI on your UC investment. Our goal is to make it easier for teams to connect and collaborate. Visit us online to explore tools, tips and strategies that can help drive UC adoption rates so your people can communicate whenever and wherever they choose.

Plantronics works with authorized distributors across Africa. More information about UC solutions available in your local area are available at www.plantronics.com/africa 

Plantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments.  Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit www.plantronics.com/africa 

1Michael Finneran, “2014 State of Unified Communications,” Information Week Reports. 

Johannesburg, South Africa - December 2017 - Plantronics (NYSE: PLT), an audio pioneer and communications technology leader, recently released a blog article about the mutually beneficial positives of working closely with valued, trusted channel partners in an educational capacity. Excerpts from the article:

"If your business is like most, your team includes people outside of your own company’s walls. And because of that, you can only achieve your corporate goals if your channel partner ecosystem meets theirs, too.The importance of your channel partners’ success shows up most clearly with resellers. As your revenue targets increase year over year, your company counts on its existing channel partners to scale their output as well. What are some ways we can ensure this happens?

One of the most effective ways is through high-quality training.

In a recent article in SearchITChannel.com, it is suggested that vendors are coming to understand that by creating an education program, partners are more adept at both understanding and selling their solutions.At Plantronics, we launched Connect University within our Connect Partner Program in 2013. Plantronics’ program supports partners throughout their business activities, offering them planning and revenue-generating support, and certification for applicable programs*. It’s how we help our partners successfully sell our products!

Since then, many partners have told us in conversations that the training they’ve received from this program has empowered them to sell more. We knew this would be the case, but it led us to ask, “How much more?” and “How can we translate this ongoing training into a best practice for our other channel partners so they can also reap the benefits?” Specifically, we wanted to discover whether there was an improvement in sales performance after partners became specialized in one or more of the Connect University certifications. So, we did some research.To perform our analysis, we built a control group of more than 2400 untrained partners and a trained group comprising more than 80 partners.The analysis showed that those receiving training increased their sales on average by nine percent more than those who had no training.

Not only that, but the top ten performers experienced an impressive 406 percent higher growth rate than the control group! Suffice it to say, providing and implementing a well-laid-out certification program can lead to tangible benefits for everyone involved on an ongoing basis.The vendor and partner can see a repeatable increase in the bottom line, and the customer buys from a highly knowledgeable, trusted source."

Plantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments.  Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit www.plantronics.com/africa

Johannesburg, South Africa – November 2017, Plantronics (NYSE: PLT), an audio pioneer and communications technology leader, recently announced enhancements to its Software as a Service (SaaS) technology. With focus in the last several years on capturing new opportunities as the communication landscape shifts to the cloud, the technologies designed to deliver communications shift in response to a workforce increasingly in motion.

Plantronics has been a leader in providing innovative, high-quality headsets to large enterprises and contact centers through authorized partners in South Africa for many years. Recently, Plantronics started offering software applications such as Plantronics Hub and Plantronics Manager Pro [1] to help organize important business insight - giving IT and customer experience managers additional information into their communications environments. In order to extend the reach of Plantronics Manager Pro, Plantronics has recently made Open Data Access (ODA) and related APIs[2] available on its Plantronics Manager Pro Developer Portal, a first to market program in such an industry at the time.

Designed for businesses, Enterprise IT and call center managers can benefit from the ability to extend the information in the software dashboards they use today to monitor their communications environment to include analytics related to how the headset interacts with their other communication tools. Plantronics is happy to work with partners and software developers who want to innovate in the communications landscape by integrating analytics into their software. Business partners can benefit by new software integrations that work seamlessly with enterprise audio solutions, joining up UC and contact center customer value. 

About Plantronics
Plantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments. Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit www.plantronics.com/africa.

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Plantronics, Inc. is a trademark of Plantronics, Inc. registered in the US and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

[1] Available soon through authorized SaaS Distributors in South Africa only, check with local authorized partners for more information

[2] Check with local authorized SaaS Distributors in South Africa for availability dates

Johannesburg, South Africa – November 2017, Plantronics (NYSE: PLT), an audio pioneer and communications technology leader, recently announced the Blackwire 5200 Series and Blackwire 3200 Series. With sleek, updated designs, professional-grade audio, and a range of product choices at varying price points, the new Blackwire headsets connect to laptops, PCs and smartphones for seamless communication.

“The Blackwire family has consistently delivered for our customers and remains one of our top-selling product lines,” said Gavin Sear, Manager, Global Product Marketing at Plantronics. “The Blackwire 5200 Series and Blackwire 3200 Series step up the line’s adaptability for the next generation of in-office professionals by enabling them to easily connect to all their devices while enjoying all-day comfort and a high-quality audio experience.”

The Blackwire family of products are designed for people whose work demands that they are connected to their computer or smartphone with the flexibility to switch between devices without missing a beat. Research shows office-based workers are often distracted by ambient noise and interruptions, and they need communications solutions to help them focus.

When professionals select the forward-looking industrial design, premium materials, and lava-red accents used throughout the headset and cords of the Blackwire 5200 Series and Blackwire 3200 Series they get a high-performance headset that assures they can hear and be heard in every conversation along with a new design that conveys competence and confidence to handle even the most critical conversation. The Blackwire Series is designed to work with popular software applications such as Cisco Jabber, Microsoft Skype for Business, and Microsoft Teams across PCs, laptops and smartphones with a headphone jack.

Additional features and benefits of the next-generation Blackwire family include:

• Folding ear cushions and included carrying case for easy on-the-go storage
• Intuitive one-touch call answer/end, volume increase/decrease and mute controls
• Works across a range of devices supporting USB-A or USB-C and 3.5mm connections
• User-friendly audio prompts with language customization and inline indicator lights alert the user to incoming calls, mute and volume status
• Wideband audio with noise-canceling microphones for high-quality telephony audio
• Compatibility with Plantronics Manager Pro, an additional purchase, that enables IT teams to gain insight into every compatible Plantronics headset being used company-wide
• Dynamic EQ automatically adjusts audio settings between voice calls and music

Features exclusive to Blackwire 5200 Series include:

• Passive noise cancelling to mitigate nearby talking and other distracting noises for greater focus
• Dynamic mute alert, ensuring optimal productivity by sensing and alerting users via an in-ear whisper when they are trying to talk while muted
• SoundGuard Digital enabled by Plantronics Hub software provides additional advanced acoustic limiting protection preventing average daily noise exposure from exceeding 85dBA
• A redesigned headband that was influenced by the Voyager Focus design.

The Blackwire 5200 Series and the Blackwire 3200 Series will be available soon in South Africa through Plantronics authorized partners. More information about features offered within Blackwire 5200 Series and Blackwire 3200 Series are available at www.plantronics.com/africa

About Plantronics
Plantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments. Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit www.plantronics.com/africa. 

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Plantronics, Inc. Blackwire, Plantronics, and SoundGuard are trademarks of Plantronics, Inc. registered in the US and other countries, and Plantronics Hub is a trademark of Plantronics, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, and Skype for Business are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Cisco is a registered trademark of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. The Bluetooth trademark is owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of the mark by Plantronics, Inc. is under license. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners

[1] Not all statements applicable to Blackwire 3210/3220

Santa Cruz, Calif. – SEPTEMBER 2017 – Plantronics (NYSE: PLT), a pioneer in audio and wearable technology, recently announced the expansion of the company’s sport portfolio with the BackBeat FIT Family, a range of wireless sport headphones to fit any user’s active lifestyle. New products include the BackBeat FIT 300 Series, the BackBeat FIT 500 Series, as well as the BackBeat FIT Training Edition and BackBeat FIT Boost Edition, both of which feature an exclusive partnership with the PEAR Personal Coach App.

“The BackBeat FIT Family provides a variety of styles and features designed with sport in mind,” said Greg Miller, director, Portfolio Business Management at Plantronics. “There’s a sweat-protected, stable and comfortable pair of BackBeat FIT headphones that’s right for any level of fitness – whether you’re looking for a dedicated sport headphone with on-demand coaching, or just want something comfortable and stylish to wear throughout the day.”

The BackBeat FIT Family delivers the premium features that Plantronics headphones are known for, including comfort, stability and durability. Featuring Plantronics’ signature audio quality and performance, the portfolio can inspire any fitness experience from beginner bodyweight and yoga workouts to advanced marathon training programs. Its range of affordable prices along with varying colors and different wearing styles provides a greater choice to help motivate any athlete wherever they are on their fitness journey. 

A new partnership with PEAR Personal Coach App means users can now take their workout to the next level by bringing together wireless freedom and ultimate stability with interactive, on-demand coaching with the BackBeat FIT Training Edition and BackBeat FIT Boost Edition. According to the National Federation of Professional Trainers, an experienced trainer can cost upwards of 670 -804 ZAR ($50-$60) an hour, making PEAR Personal Coaching App an ideal complement to the Plantronics BackBeat FIT to push you to complete your best workout, without the costly training fees. Led by renowned coaches such as Andrew Kastor, elite Olympic coach and his wife Deena Kastor, Olympian and world-record runner; author and triathlete coach Matt Dixon, users will have unlimited access to 12 workouts and six-month access to the entire PEAR workout library that include personal cues throughout the program to help achieve maximum fitness results.

Pricing and Availability

Plantronics has been present in South Africa for over 20 years, working locally through authorized Distributors and Partners. In the South African region the BackBeat FIT 300 Series is scheduled to be available towards the end of October, the BackBeat FIT 500 Series and Boost Edition are scheduled for November, and the BackBeat FIT Training Edition will be available in 2018. For more information and to stay updated http://www.plantronics.com/africa/  

Introducing the BackBeat FIT FamilyBackBeat FIT 300 Series, one of the world’s lightest Bluetooth® headphones designed to easily transition between fitness and everyday life. BackBeat FIT 300 Series wireless earbuds offer a discreet, ultra-light, portable and sweat-proof design that stays comfortably stable and blocks out unwanted gym noise. The low friction cloth cable, six hours of battery life and a patent-pending, secure-fit ear tip design make BackBeat FIT 300 Series a perfect match for both active and everyday use while still providing an immersive listening experience. 

BackBeat FIT 500 Series, for those who enjoy being active and are looking to enter the world of on-ear wireless. BackBeat FIT 500 Series provides an immersive experience before, during and after a workout, up to 18 hours of battery life, protection against sweat and comfortable memory foam earcups that block out noise and help users focus on deep, rich sound. 

BackBeat FIT Training and BackBeat FIT Boost Editions build on Plantronics renowned BackBeat FIT wireless waterproof headphones by featuring two new enhanced bundle offerings to help users challenge themselves to meet their personal best. The Training Edition includes unlimited access to 12 hand-picked PEAR Personal Coaching App workouts and a six-month access to PEAR+ membership. The Boost Edition includes everything in the Training Edition plus an IPX5-rated water resistant charging pouch that provides up to 10 additional hours of listening time and a quick-drying sport mesh fabric. A touch-sensitive battery meter shows the status of the headphones and charge pouch. Both versions feature an open-ear tip design that helps users stay aware of their surroundings when they’re taking their workout outdoors.

Plantronics Award-Winning BackBeat Family

The BackBeat FIT Family is the newest addition to the Plantronics BackBeat portfolio of wireless stereo products. Other BackBeat stereo Bluetooth® headphones include BackBeat 500 Series, comfortable and affordable on-ear Bluetooth® stereo headphones; BackBeat PRO 2, critically acclaimed wireless headphones with on-demand active noise cancellation; BackBeat GO 3, wireless stereo earbuds that provide vivid, high-res audio quality; BackBeat SENSE, smart on-ear wireless headphones with sensor technology; and BackBeat 100 Series, hybrid neckband wireless headphones with an ultra-light design for all-day wear. Each product allows users to make phone calls in addition to enjoy music, as well as the quality, durability, comfort and best-in-class experience that customers have come to expect from Plantronics.

About PlantronicsPlantronics is an audio pioneer and a global leader in the communications industry. We create intelligent and adaptive solutions that support our customers’ most important needs: experiencing and facilitating simple and clear communications while enjoying distraction-free environments. Our solutions are used worldwide by consumers and businesses alike, and are an optimal choice for open office environments. From Unified Communications and customer service ecosystems, to data analytics and Bluetooth headsets, Plantronics delivers high-quality communications solutions that our customers count on today, while relentlessly innovating on behalf of their future. For more information visit plantronics.com.

The Bluetooth trademark is owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of the mark by Plantronics, Inc. is under license. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

About PEAR Sports

PEAR Sports delivers an innovative and intuitive technology that guides users through every step of their fitness journey. With over 500 unique workout programs including running, cycling and strength, users can experience real-time, interactive audio workouts and personalised training from some of the world’s most talented athletes and fitness experts. Utilising biofeedback and data, PEAR’s interactive software empowers its users to train smarter, keeps them motivated throughout the process and shares in their successes. PEAR is helping the everyday fitness enthusiast achieve better results, faster.

Visit: www.pearsports.com | @pearsports 

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