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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We used the SPA-94x fro desktop phones and
the speaker phones on them a pretty good. We have a Snom 360 and the speaker
phone is lousy. I have just updated the firmware to the latest version and it
seems to be a better. It is not as good as the SPA as the Snom has background hiss
on speakerphone.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>We have just started using the Polycom 601
for our reception phones. I am at this minute trying to figure out how to
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>cp<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 2 November 2006
9:25 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Asterisk
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [asterisk-users] Snom
or Cisco Phones?</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:blue'>Do the
speakerphone’s work well on Snom 320’s? I have a Linksys 841
and could never get the speakerphone working well.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jessee J Holmes<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, November 01, 2006
11:45 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Asterisk
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [asterisk-users] Snom
or Cisco Phones?</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Writing this as a user of VoIP and not a reseller,
(meaning off the record), we really love the Snom phones here as well, I wish
the Snom 300's had a bit more functionality (like the Grandstream), and the
Snom 320's and 360's were a little less confusing with their buttons (aka too
many buttons on the keypad for some non-tehcy end users).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>But they have terrific functionality and great audio
quality in most office environments, and are very easy to set up and install.
Everyone seems to really love them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Cisco phones are nice as well, but IF you decide
to go with Cisco, READ what you are buying and what you are getting before just
blindly buying it (in fact, do this anyways, it's common sense to do this
before buying any product, anywhere). Cisco products normally don't come with
half of the items you need, and unfortunately most resellers (and Cisco)
don't make this too easy to read and understand. DO NOT buy refurbished
Cisco if you want support, especially since there has been some bogus Cisco
voice equipment shipping lately from some of the certified Cisco
resellers/distributors. Network World had an article on this recently: <a
href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html">http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Cisco may have a great look to their phones and have
the design very well thought out (not to mention the big Cisco name - which is
good enough for some), but they are normally harder to install and configure
and are VERY proprietary. If you buy Cisco, Cisco wants you to ONLY buy Cisco
(for support and marketing reasons).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Snom 320's are a great choice just because these
phones mainly support everything the Snom 360's support (i.e. sidecars) Only
main differences between these two models is that the Snom 360 has the larger
LCD screen as well as newly added XML support.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>We have about 50 stations here, some management, some
support, some sales and have pretty much decided as a company to completely use
Snom phones for all of our employees.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Keep in mind, each phone out there will have their
specific pro's and con's, as well as quarks ... seems there is no real
"perfect phone" out there yet. But Snom in my mind, is pretty dang
close.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>This all of course is just personal opinion from past
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 color=black
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color:black'>Jessee Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 color=black
face=Helvetica><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 color=black
face=Helvetica><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>www.atacomm.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 color=black
face=Helvetica><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>V: 1-877-700-VOIP<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 color=black
face=Helvetica><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'><a href="mailto:jholmes@atacomm.com">jholmes@atacomm.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=1 color=black
face=Helvetica><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;
color:black'>Looking for voice over IP products? Visit our VoIP store at <a
href="http://voipstore.atacomm.com">http://voipstore.atacomm.com</a>/<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Tom Vile wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>I love the
Snom phones as well. The function keys are great and easy to use.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 10/31/06, <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>mitcheloc</span></b> <<a href="mailto:mitcheloc@gmail.com">mitcheloc@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span></font></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:12.0pt'>My vote is definitely for Snom, I've worked with Cisco
phones for<br>
years, but the Snom is much better integrated, and the feature buttons <br>
can be retooled for any environment, making custom installs very easy.<br>
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On 10/31/06, Conrad Wood <<a href="mailto:asterisk-users@conradwood.net">asterisk-users@conradwood.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:29 -0600, Joe Dennick wrote: <br>
> > Comparing Snom to Cisco phones is sort of like comparing Mercedes to
Kia<br>
> > cars....<br>
><br>
> Not really. Both are very good phones.<br>
><br>
> * My Clients prefer cisco because it looks more business-like. - The new <br>
> snom phones do look better though and the side car rules.<br>
> * The Cisco phone 'feels' very good in your hand, and the voicequality<br>
> is superb. (I'd say slightly better than that of the snom 360)<br>
> <br>
> * Technically, I find the snom phone more advanced and I can do more<br>
> cool stuff with it - Cisco doesn't seem to like giving features away in<br>
> SIP.<br>
> * Snom phones, for example, have freely programmable buttons that can <br>
> park/retrieve/transfer calls, show line status etc. I can't get that to<br>
> work with Cisco phones at all.<br>
> * Putting custom ringtones (and choosing which ones to use) is a<br>
> no-brainer with snoms and real trouble with ciscos. <br>
> * On ciscos, I find the "upgrade" path from sccp to sip a
totally<br>
> unnecessary annoyance.<br>
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