[asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?

[Conrad Wood]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:29 -0600, Joe Dennick wrote:
> Comparing Snom to Cisco phones is sort of like comparing Mercedes to Kia 
> cars....

Not really. Both are very good phones. 

* My Clients prefer cisco because it looks more business-like. - The new
snom phones do look better though and the side car rules.
* The Cisco phone 'feels' very good in your hand, and the voicequality
is superb. (I'd say slightly better than that of the snom 360)

* Technically, I find the snom phone more advanced and I can do more
cool stuff with it - Cisco doesn't seem to like giving features away in
SIP.
* Snom phones, for example, have freely programmable buttons that can
park/retrieve/transfer calls, show line status etc. I can't get that to
work with Cisco phones at all.
* Putting custom ringtones (and choosing which ones to use) is a
no-brainer with snoms and real trouble with ciscos.
* On ciscos, I find the "upgrade" path from sccp to sip a totally
unnecessary annoyance.