[Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use

Wed Feb 22 06:56:39 MST 2006

Having just read this thread from start to present I'd like to offer
that I really like my Polycom 600/601s. the 501a are ok too. But I
actually use an Aastra 480i CT personally. It's a great phone. Costs a
little more but is by far the best I've used. Easy to setup. Central
provisioning. Firmware issolid. Supports Asterisk. I'm soooo happpy to
be rid of the ATA-Cordless combination.

Michael

--Original Message Text---
From: Joe Pukepail
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:20:17 -0600

I like the specs on this, the only thing that it seems to be missing is
POE.  Anyone know if POE is going to be supported on the 300?  Looks
nice and I could see it for low use areas, but would suck for wall
mounting if it can't do POE. 

On 2/22/06, Cory Andrews <Cory at voipsupply.com> wrote: Clint - Looks
like your wish has been granted, and your love affair with Snom can
continue.  They are soon releasing the new Snom 300, which has most of
the features your are fond of in the 360 and 320 models, and should be
quite near, if not at, your $100 price point.  

Read up on it here ->
http://www.snom.com/pressinformation_details.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35
4&tx_ttnews[backPid]=33&cHash=1bb97caf5c&L=1

Detailed specs here -> http://www.snom.com/snom300_voip_phone.html?&L=1

Cory J Andrews
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VOIPSupply.com
454 Sonwil Drive
Buffalo, NY 14225
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voice - 716.630.1555 X22
email - Cory at VOIPSupply.com
AIM - B2CORY
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Clint Sharp 
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use

It's funny this thread has been coming up, because I've been testing
out phones at my office, and I just did a fairly intensive quality test
on them.

1) Budgetones: Don't bother for a business setting.  The speaker phone
is basically useless (echo problems) and the handset is horrible.  If
you follow the suggestion on the Wiki to drill out the handset, it
improves things marginally, but not much.  Users talking to you will
constantly complain about you sound muffled.  It's think it's a
frequency response thing and not a volume thing, I think it's just
getting lower than a standard 8 khz sample out of the microphone,
because it's so cheap. 

2) GXP-2000: Not much better than the Budgetones, but at least the
firmware is still in active development.  Feature-wise it's pretty
cool, but poor firmware and poor handset hardware again make this a
real problem for us.  We lost one handset to static electricity
yesterday (which was fixed by adding in a microphone from an old
business set, which actually improved that phone's quality).  The
speakerphone is useless due to echo issues.  However, 4 line
appearances is pretty cool for that price of phone, and passthrough
Ethernet at 100 mbs is pretty cool too.  Overall, I can't recommend
them, because while they sound slightly better than the budgetones, I
still get many complaints about muffled calls. 

3) Polycom: Of the 4 phone brands we're actively using (not including
the Wifi phone which rarely gets used), this was the best until I got
the Snom in today.  The handset is of good quality.  I have an IP 301,
but if the cheapest phone is this good, I'd definitely get a 501 or 601
(and am considering ordering some, although I may order Snom 320s
instead).  Their support policies do get on my nerves, I'd like to not
have to worry about what reseller I'm using, but it's a solid phone
with solid features, although the menus are cumbersome and I haven't
gotten MWI to work on it yet. 

4) Snom 320: This is an excellent phone based off one days testing. 
Minimal configuration, professional looking web interface, and the best
sound quality of any of the phones I tested.  THe speakerphone works
great, and the handset quality is outstanding, and tested the best with
my callers that were listening to me through the PSTN.  I haven't
upgraded firmware or anything on this yet, so can't tell you there, but
I can't see a compelling reason to upgrade from whatever it shipped
with that this point (i'm not feature crazy, I only upgrade the
firmware if basic features don't seem to be working right). 

Overall, stay away from the Grandstream's IMHO.  The audio quality
issues will drive you insane.  I'm hoping someone will come out with a
sub-$100 phone that drops some features but fixes what should be the
cheapest part of the phone to manufacture, since they've been the same
for nearly 50 years, the handset. 

Clint

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