[asterisk-users] bugetone 200's

[Yuan LIU]

>From: phil.dawson at marnock.com
>Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:29:07 +0100
>
>how do these phones perform?  ok for office use? work well with asterisk?
>
>any info would be appreciated.

I have a bugetone 100 at home.  It appears to work with Asterisk and basic 
quality seems to be OK (G.711) including speaker phone.  But I use none of 
its built-in features such as transfer or even hold so the elaborative 
right-hand side buttons are pretty much useless.

One annoying problem about buttons: it doesn't have a Redial key, but has a 
"Send" key to please some annoying VoIP system.  And if you need to redial, 
press that Send key.  The designer must be out of his or her mind.

A lesser button issue: the mute key is marked as "Mute/Del".  As such, could 
easily be overlooked by a casual user looking for Mute key.  I would much 
appreciate a stand-alone Mute key, and won't mind having a combined 
"Flash/Del" key.  You guessed it: Flash stands alone. (I do appreciate the 
corner location of the Mute/Del key.  But Del is really not that useful to 
qualify for this premier location.)

Yuan Liu