Hands Free Phones Free You Up

I once watched the ultimate in multi-tasking: a woman (who was a doctor and a mother of two small children) stirring the cooking with one hand, holding the baby with the other hand and debriefing the day's work at the local health clinic with a supervisor. The phone was a cordless one, but she still had to tuck it between her chin, shoulder and ear by holding her head at an awkward angle.
It's moments like these that you need a mobile phone that doesn't need to be held with your head at an awkward angle and leaves your hands free to do things. This is the moment you need to use a hands free phone.

Hands free phones have a number of uses in the commercial world. If you need to enter data while making a call (e.g. in a call centre) or want to multi-task by talking on the phone while putting old documents through the shredder or deleting spam in your email inbox, then a hands free phone will make this task a lot easier and will spare you getting a nasty crick in the neck.
A hands free phone is also very handy if you're driving. While many countries have banned the use of hand-held mobile phones while the car is in motion, hands free phones are still permitted for use in many places. After all, holding a conversation on a hands free phone is pretty much the same as holding a conversation live except that you can't see the person on the other end - anyway, your eyes should be fixed on the road ahead.
Those working in call centres - and those who like the convenience of being able to move around the house or office and do things while talking on the phone - may often make use of a headset hands free phone.
A modern headset hands free phone is much lighter than the clunky old versions that saw the user wearing something like a pair of earmuffs with a microphone jutting around the chin. Modern headset hands free phones are discrete and nearly invisible and with Bluetooth technology, they can go anywhere. You may not quite want to conduct a high-level business discussion while rock climbing, but with a rugged and even waterproof hands free phone with a headset, this is possible.

The other popular type of hands free phone is the type that stands alone and doesn't require you to have something tucked neatly onto your ear. This is the type of hands free phone that is commonly found in cars. This type of hands free phone uses Bluetooth technology in a "docking bay" that converts your regular (Bluetooth enabled) mobile phone into a hands-free phone for driving or otherwise.
Popular brands of hands free phone on the market currently include BlueAnt, Samsung, Parrot, Plantronics, CCM, Jabra, Motorola and Nokia. However, many other brands of hands free phone are available, and you should be able to find a hands free phone kit to "dock" your current mobile phone (if it's got Bluetooth).
Incidentally, while on the topic of hands free phones and Bluetooth, the name Bluetooth is derived from the name of the Viking king Harald Bluetooth who unified several Scandinavian tribes who had been at war. The logo for Bluetooth, which you'll find on many a hands free phone is made up of the runes for H and B, this king's initials - and the fact that it looks like two teeth on a blue background is a nice touch.