[Asterisk-Users] This newbie gives up for now - sadly

[Cameron Palmer]

As Robert's colleague that owns 7960s I can go on about the superiority of 
the Cisco phone. The most immediate difference is the look and feel. 
Everyone that has seen or held my phone says that it is nice. Everyone 
that picks up a Grandstream phone or looks at one says they are cheap. 
Grandstream should really consider putting some lead weights in the 
handset. Hell, the free USB phone from Voiceglo feels better than the 
Grandstream phone...

and that is just the exterior...

As soon as they get their problems with SIP functionality and stability 
sorted, they should spend some time and effort on product design. I 
understand they are trying to be competitive but people expect a phone to 
look and feel a certain way.

cameron.

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:

> John,
>    Jared is right.  I have a co-worker who has coughed up the money for the
> Cisco 7960 SIP phones.  These have a soft button for "Supervised Transfer".
> And, it works.
> 
>    I only have the Grandstream BT101 phones, and their "Transfer" button only
> implements "Blind Transfer".
> 
>    So, to get it to work, you will need to upgrade to non-budget phones.  Not
> ideal, but Asterisk does support the feature, just Grandstream does not.
> 
> <quote who="Jared Smith">
> > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 06:20, John Coll wrote:
> >> Robert Hajime Lanning:
> >>
> >> "He is using SIP phones.  Supervised Transfers do not really work with SIP.
> >> He wants, on a SIP phone (I think he had Grandstream phones), to:
> >>  o hit "transfer"
> >>  o dial new extension
> >>  o talk to new extension ***** this part does not work *****
> >>  o hit "transfer" to complete the transfer or some cancel button to abort"
> >>
> >> Yes that is exactly what I want - thanks for clarifying.
> >>
> >
> > It sounds to me like this is a problem with the Grandstream phones in
> > particular, and not Asterisk.  Supervised transfers work *GREAT* with
> > the Cisco 7960 phones... I use them almost every day.
> >
> > Jared Smith
> >
> >
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