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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Read up on it here -> <A
href="http://www.snom.com/pressinformation_details.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=354&tx_ttnews[backPid]=33&cHash=1bb97caf5c&L=1">http://www.snom.com/pressinformation_details.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=354&tx_ttnews[backPid]=33&cHash=1bb97caf5c&L=1</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Detailed specs here -> <A
href="http://www.snom.com/snom300_voip_phone.html?&L=1">http://www.snom.com/snom300_voip_phone.html?&L=1</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Cory J Andrews<BR>++++++++++++<BR>VOIPSupply.com<BR>454 Sonwil
Drive<BR>Buffalo, NY 14225<BR>++++++++++++++<BR>voice - 716.630.1555
X22<BR>email - <A
href="mailto:Cory@VOIPSupply.com">Cory@VOIPSupply.com</A><BR>AIM - B2CORY</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=clint@kirkhamsystems.com href="mailto:clint@kirkhamsystems.com">Clint
Sharp</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">Asterisk Users Mailing List -
Non-Commercial Discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:03
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Asterisk-Users] What
business IP phone to use</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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.<BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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. <BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR>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). <BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR>Clint<BR>
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