[Asterisk-Users] Snom phones?

[Paul Hewlett]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 06:09, Stephen Bosch wrote:
> Hi, everyone:
>
> I'm in the processing of deciding what IP phones we should use with our
> Asterisk server, and I wanted to get feedback from the user community on
> the quality, reliability and ease of operation of Snom phones.
>
> What do you have to say about these phones? Are there other phones you'd
> suggest along with or instead of Snom?
Stephen

    I have used the SNOM190 & 360, Grandstream budget-tone100, Swissvoice 
ip10s and EQtel 

   SNOM190 - nice quality, nice sound, expensive, some obscure features which 
if not turned off cause havoc (Transfer on Hook, Number guessing). Latest 
firmware solves the annoying loud beep when second call comes in.

   (SNOM200 is reputedly better...)

   SNOM360 - total overkill - only for receptionist but nice and expensive.

   Grandstream - very nice, nice price, has some convenient buttons (Message 
button dials own extension so easy to set up voicemailmain), attended 
transfer via flash button

   Swissvoice ip10s - nice and small, 4 programmable buttons on front so 
easily customisable, make sure that you have latest firmware (build 12), has 
2 lines so no easy way to tell when transferring to phone that the callee is 
busy on the phone (phone picks up on line 2)

   EQtel - chunky militaristic look, battery backup (unique), have not used it 
much, extensive help on connecting to a SIP provider, voice quality ok, 
enquiring for the settings on the phone are 'spoken' to you rather than 
displayed on LCD, attended transfer via flash button

My current preference is the Grandstream.

Regards Paul
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