[Asterisk-Users] Difference between Snom 190 & Elmeg 290?

[tim panton]

On 5 Mar 2005, at 06:58, Remco Barende wrote:

> Hi list!
>
> While looking for the Snom 190 I found another phone, the Elmeg IP 290 
> (www.elmeg.de).
>
> Looking at the pictures & the specs they seem to be very similar 
> beasts but the firmware is supposedly not interchangeable.
>
> Does anyone know the difference between the 2, do they work with 
> Asterisk?
>
> The weird thing is that Elmeg has similar phones with the Snom look 
> but they are ISDN only (no voip) while Snom has several other models 
> that are IP. Who's cloning who? I don't want to end up with phones for 
> which firmware support or update will disappear soon while the 
> 'orginal' will continue to be supported?

The way I heard it was that Snom had some trouble with the mechanical
design of their earlier phones so bought the case design in from an 
existing
ISDN phone maker. I guess that must be Elmeg.

I guess the outer look tells you nothing about the hardware let alone 
the firmware.

Tim.