[asterisk-users] wifi sip phone real-world experiences?

Bryan Laird negativeduck at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 05:53:32 MST 2007


On Jun 4, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> On Monday 04 June 2007 8:24 am, Bryan Laird wrote:
>>   - Physically the phone feels very light and cheap, that if you were
>> to drop it that it might not survive very many of them.  The buttons
>> feel more
>> like a toy than anything else but once you get beyond that it works.
>
> How are they for big hands?  I'll have to do some checking around  
> to see if I
> can find a rubber case for it or something, it's all concrete  
> floors here.



Considering I too have the sausage finger problem... the buttons are  
incredibly similar
to what you find on the Nokia candy bar style phones.


>
>> - Address book storage is ok the interface from the phone is fairly
>> standard for what you would see in a cell phone and adding entries
>> isn't really
>> all that horrid of a task.  You can also add entries via the web
>> interface which does make for an easier way to add several entries
>> but the lack of
>> anything resembling a 'sync' function could be considered bothersome.
>
> Bugger.
>
>> Last thing, one neat thing about the wip300 if you are adventurous is
>> the fact that the firmware is under GPL... so if you really felt like
>> it you could probably change the behavior of
>> the phone.
>
> This I was not aware of.  I will certainly evaluate this phone and  
> it's bigger
> brother.
>
>> Anyway sorry for the long message but I felt like chiming in on
>> this.  All in all I don't think it's a horrible phone I do however
>> think it's over priced for what it is but not enough demand on
>> this type of device is always going to keep the price up in the air.
>
> Your message is *exactly* the kind of reply I was hoping to get.   
> Thank you so
> much for taking the time to write such a long response.  I truly  
> appreciate
> it.
>
> -A.
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