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The Quickcam Communicate is supposed to be well suited to video conferencing - so its headphones have a built-in microphone. Apart from this, it doesn't appear to be any better suited to video-conferencing than any other webcam.

Video quality was relatively poor. Even at its default size, it looked slightly blocky. The image was also slightly out of focus in the two bottom corners of the video screen.

Like the Creative cams, the Communicate looks as if you should be able to either sit it on a flat surface or hook it over the top of a TFT monitor. In practice, the hook part is too small to hold the webcam in place.

The bundled software was decent enough, but it didn't have anything that made it particularly stand out.

This is an average webcam for an above-average price. If you only want a basic webcam for video conferencing, you should choose the Trust Spacecam 320 instead.