[asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?

[mitcheloc]

My vote is definitely for Snom, I've worked with Cisco phones for
years, but the Snom is much better integrated, and the feature buttons
can be retooled for any environment, making custom installs very easy.

On 10/31/06, Conrad Wood <asterisk-users at conradwood.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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