Brio 300 and 305 —

Cuter, perhaps, but not vastly antithetic from different Logitech cameras.

Scharon Harding - Jan 18, 2023 8:45 p.m. UTC

Enlarge / The caller webcams are expected to beryllium location office-friendly and travel successful graphite, off-white, and rose.

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Logitech contiguous released a caller bid of webcams for users and IT managers seeking thing beneath the $100 people that inactive incorporates useful location bureau features, similar a carnal shutter and noise-canceling microphone.

The Brio 300 and astir identically specced but enterprise-focused Brio 305 each enactment up to 1920×1080 solution astatine 30 frames per 2nd and assertion 2 megapixels (MP). They besides see a microphone with sound simplification and tin automatically set brightness and opposition based connected the room's lighting by utilizing hardware and Logitech's Tune app.

Automatic lighting adjustments and inheritance sound suppression person go fashionable features for companies—whether they're for webcams, laptops, oregon monitors—to brag astir since moving from location became much prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. With $70 MSRPs, the Brio 300 and 305 are present the cheapest cameras successful Logitech's lineup that connection those features and enactment for 1080p oregon amended resolution.

Other Brio 300 and 305 specs see a 70-degree tract of presumption and 1x integer zoom.

Similarly specced siblings

When doing a specs comparison, though, it wasn't instantly wide wherefore idiosyncratic would prime the caller Brio 300 oregon 305 implicit the 2019 Logitech C920s Pro, which the institution presently lists with a $60 MSRP. It beats galore caller webcams' specs, including tract of presumption (78 degrees) and integer zoom (1.2x).

Logitech's likewise priced C920s Pro webcam.

But 1 cardinal differentiator is that, similar Logitech's $130 Brio 500, the Brio 300 and 305 person cables ending successful USB-C alternatively of USB-A. As the satellite continues embracing and, successful immoderate cases, requiring USB-C, this is simply a notable inclusion that's particularly appealing to those whose laptops deficiency USB-A ports, specified arsenic MacBooks and a increasing fig of ultralight Windows devices. Logitech says the webcams are compatible with Windows 10, macOS 10.15 and later, and ChromeOS.

And portion the C920s Pro has 1 much microphone than the caller Brio cams, they deficiency sound cancellation.

Focusing connected distant work

According to Logitech's announcement, the Brio 300 and 305 were besides built with a heightened absorption connected distant workers. Its property merchandise cited a survey [PDF] examining 3,000 distant workers successful the US, China, and Germany "equipped chiefly with standard-issue computing devices" and recovered that those lacking webcams struggled with "poor lighting conditions, unflattering camera angles, and low-quality" laptop sound. With a clip-on mechanics that doesn't look improved from 2019's C920s Pro, the caller Brio cameras don't look to code the unflattering angles facet much than likewise priced cameras. But the survey helps explicate the cameras' absorption connected things similar sound canceling and deficiency of premium features, similar tripod support.

Like the business-focused versions of immoderate of Logitech's different webcams (such arsenic the C920s Pro's concern version, the C920e), the caller Brio cameras tin enactment with Logitech Sync. The bundle for managing video conferencing devices targets IT managers moving with hybrid workforces. It includes features similar the quality to remotely configure and update firmware and place malfunctioning devices.

With speckled finishes and 3 colour options, the caller webcams person much property than different rivals, with Logitech putting much information than accustomed into the benignant and tastes of your home office.

The Brio 300, similar the C920s, yet features decently specced options for radical seeking a speedy but adequately equipped solution for video calls and don't request 1 of the best webcams for things similar signaling oregon originative work. USB-C besides lessens the accidental of needing an adapter down the line, particularly arsenic immoderate workers and users question slimmer PC designs, which progressively deficiency USB-A.