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What Does Handsfree Mean?

Handsfree is a term used to describe technology that uses various features to accommodate the user’s ability to communicate without using the hands. Many of these technologies are made to be used while operating a vehicle, but are often used in many other places to allow people to multi-task more effectively. Handsfree technologies use the same sorts of wireless systems used in emerging mobile device technologies and other wireless networks. The user will typically communicate with a nearby piece of hardware that sends and receives voice or other data as digital packets.

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Techopedia Explains Handsfree

One common type of handsfree technology is Bluetooth, proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances. The most basic handsfree technologies accommodate telephone conversations by replacing traditional handheld receivers with headsets. Other newer handsfree features also allow users to complete various tasks via voice command. The most advanced handsfree features allow users to dial telephone numbers, access information from the Internet, and perform all sorts of communication functions this way.

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Margaret Rouse
Technology Specialist

Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.