<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've played with one, but they are not available yet from Polycom (as in shipping to distributors). They are only demoing the phones at the moment. I'm sure if anyone has gone to any VoIP trade-show (like VON) they would have seen and used one of these, but under Polycom environments.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It uses the G.722 codec, this is HDVoice according to Polycom. It's "supposed" to sound better. Under Polycom demo conditions, it does sound better. Polycom has samples of the sound of the phones on their website I believe so you can hear for yourself, but I'm still skeptical of what it really will sound like until we all get the phones in our hands and installed on our "messed up Asterisk environments" (joke). :)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hope that helps some.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jessee Holmes</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">www.atacomm.com</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">V: 1-877-700-VOIP</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:jholmes@atacomm.com">jholmes@atacomm.com</A></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Looking for voice over IP products? Visit our VoIP store at <A href="http://voipstore.atacomm.com">http://voipstore.atacomm.com</A>/</FONT></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 13, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Forrest Beck wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anyone used the Polycom HDvoice phone yet?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I am curious if it</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">uses a different codec.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Does it actually sound any better?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">asterisk-users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><A href="http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>