<div>So far, pretty much every firmware upgrade has been an improvement in one way or another. They're running <a href="http://1.1.0.13">1.1.0.13</a> now which seems to be fairly stable. They still get brief moments of echo, but usually only when the handset volume is up pretty high. I think it's a hardware problem where the handset microphone is actually picking up the handset speaker audio when it gets real loud.
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<div>If you do get these phones, I would make it very clear to your customers that this is a very inexpensive phone, aka CHEAP. So don't be surprised if you have some problems every once in a while. But they do have some great features that you only find in more expensive phones and some features even the big boys don't have. They especially work well remotely, extremely nat friendly... which I cannot say for the Cisco's or Polycom's.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Louis-David Mitterrand</b> <<a href="mailto:vindex+lists-asterisk-users@apartia.org">vindex+lists-asterisk-users@apartia.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 11:26:20PM -0400, Daniel Salama wrote:<br>> Well, these are encouraging words :)
<br>><br>> You're basically telling me that I should tell my client to buy other<br>> phones. I agree that you cannot compare these phones with Cisco or<br>> Polycom. After all, like you said, what do you expect for under $90.
<br>> However, the fact is that my client just recently invested in these<br>> and it will be hard, if not impossible, for me to tell my client to<br>> swap them for Polycoms or something else at a much higher cost.
<br>><br>> I have heard complaints from my client about the speakerphone and<br>> they are now, I guess, getting used to picking up the handset :). I<br>> have heard any echo problems so far. What bothers me the most is that
<br>> the phone stops working often (multiple times per day). By this I<br>> mean that my client won't be able to dial anything successfully. As<br>> soon as 3 or 4 digits are entered, they get a fast busy. To solve it,
<br>> they need to reboot it. It sounds as if these phones were running<br>> Windows instead of Linux :)<br>><br>> Anyway, what firmware did you use that solved so many of your problems?<br><br>I've only had bad experiences with these phones and steer clear of them.
<br><br>In the same price range you can now get the Thomson ST-2030 or Polycom<br>430 for a much, much better user experience.<br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by <a href="http://Easynews.com">
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