[Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use

Wed Feb 22 06:58:17 MST 2006

The PCB has PoE "prepared" - if you open it you will see that there is a
lot of space where you can solder all kinds of resistors and capacitors.
Thats for PoE. However we decided that we don't place the necessary
components because it would increase the price to the end customer by 25
USD - which would take us into a different pricing region. But apart
from that we put everything else from the snom 320/360 there. And IMHO
the audio quality is nothing less than the "high end" models, the
handsfree mode probably even better (we avoided some mistakes we made in
the other models). Even the 3-way conference is supported. 

Low use?! I would say at least 80 % of phone users today are "low use".
A phone with great audio and mandatory (but not sexy) features like
security for a mainstream price was missing for those users. 

And yes, I am from snom... (see my address!). Please excuse my
excitement. 

Christian

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Joe
Pukepail
	Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:31 AM
	To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
	Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use

	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
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			----- Original Message ----- 
			From: Clint Sharp
<mailto:clint at kirkhamsystems.com> 
			To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion <mailto:asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> 

			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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