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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Any recent experience to share when using OpenStage phones in SIP mode</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> and Asterisk ? </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I found these phones not to be very comfortable to use, even though they do </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">look interesting and the hardware is well done. If I remember well you can run your on JAVA </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">(and/or XML) applications on it - loading it the first time takes a while, though.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> What about provisionning (and localization) ?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Provisioning is certainly a strong feature of those phones, but it is also complex. Look at the </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Asterisk solution "Gemeinschaft" if you are interested in a PBX product that has attacked </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">this.  </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> BLF ?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Working but limited (during my short test I think I didn't get pickup-with-BLF-button working). </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">It is very well possible that with a newer firmware this was addressed. See also:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>http://wiki.siemens-</u></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">enterprise.com/index.php/Asterisk_Feature_Busy_Lamp_Field_%28BLF%29</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Audio quality ?</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Good or very good.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">See:</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>http://wiki.siemens-enterprise.com/index.php/OpenStage_and_Asterisk</u></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#008000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><u>http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Siemens+Phones</u></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">P.S.: Last time I checked the firmware was not easily available from Siemens.</span></font></div>
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