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 enlarge | Brand: Olympus
Category: CE
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $10.20
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 628
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 4 x 2.5 x 0.9
MPN: 145051
Model: 145051
UPC: 050332153936
EAN: 0050332153936
ASIN: B000GU88CQ
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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Surprisingly effective and useful. May 31, 2008
I also bought it to record some phone conversations with relatives about family history. It worked surprisingly well with the additional microphone ear piece.
Very easy to use, the ear piece slides into the ear of the person recording on the phone, the phone is then held up to the speaker on the outside of the earpiece and records both people on the phone.
 Works Fine May 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product works great. Everything wrong with it is obvious by the nature of its design. You won't have any bad surprises if you buy it. The user has to put the device in his ear and keep the phone on that ear throughout the conversation in order for it to work. That's hardly convenient and makes it incompatible with a phone headset. But that's obvious from the way it works. That obvious inconvenience aside, the device works great with any kind of handset.
listen up! May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
simple and elegant. beats suction cup mics hands down! fine sound quality on both ends of conversations--way better than i expected. at $12, the price is right!
 Another Idea - Use Your Cheap Earbuds April 25, 2008
9 out of 23 found this review helpful
Okay, full disclsure, I didn't plunk down the Andrew Jackson and buy this thing. After reading the reviews, I realized I didn't have to.
You see, I remembered (probably from a Mr. Wizard episode or something) that small speakers including earphones, can work in reverse as microphones. To listen to my recorder, I already had some cheap stereo earbuds plugged into a $3 radio shack adaptor that converts a mono 1/8" jack output into stereo. I unplugged them from the earphone jack and plugged them into the microphone jack instead. Then I attatched the business end of one earbud to the earpiece of my telephone with a rubber band, let the other one hang near the talk-hole, and presto, I can record telephone conversations with reasonable quality.
Now I'm willing to accept that perhaps this $20 contraption sounds better and it is no doubt more elegant. But my solution was free, and the sound quality seems to be in line with what the reviews here state.
A few cautions - I'm no expert on audio equipment, but when I tried this method with higher-quality earphones (even my ipod ones), it worked worse. For whatever reason, the cheaper the better. Also, you MUST use earphones with those puffy little wind-canceling mittens, otherwise you will record the earphone scratching against the receiver and your own wind.
Next up, I'm going to see if I can get even better sound by using the hands-free thing that came with my mobile phone (another adaptor from radio smack), and finally, see if I can use the jack on the mobile phone to connect the phone directly to my recorder. Man, I am such a dork.
Works great for me! April 22, 2008
Just tried this for the first time and it works better than I could have imagined. When I played back the recording, it was very clear. What I like most is that it is not obvious to others that I am recording (both sides of) the phone conversation.
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