[asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?

Thu Nov 2 09:38:07 MST 2006

CP,

I've never heard complaints about the Snom 320 speakerphone hardware,  
nor do I think they sound bad from using the phones myself. I believe  
Snom did make a significant improvement to their speakerphone  
hardware not to long ago.

Of course, there is never any guarantee on the "quality" of  
something, since I don't think something can please everyone. Maybe  
other users of this phone can post their feedback here as well and  
based upon that you can get a good idea of what your results should be.

Jessee Holmes
Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation
www.atacomm.com
V: 1-877-700-VOIP
jholmes at atacomm.com

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On Nov 1, 2006, at 5:24 PM, cp wrote:

> Do the speakerphone’s work well on Snom 320’s?  I have a Linksys  
> 841 and could never get the speakerphone working well.
>
>
>
> -CP
>
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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk- 
> users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jessee J Holmes
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:45 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?
>
>
>
> 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).
>
>
>
> 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.
>
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>
> 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: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html
>
>
>
> 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).
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
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>
> 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.
>
>
>
> This all of course is just personal opinion from past experience.
>
>
>
> Jessee Holmes
> Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation
> www.atacomm.com
> V: 1-877-700-VOIP
> jholmes at atacomm.com
>
> Looking for voice over IP products?  Visit our VoIP store at http:// 
> voipstore.atacomm.com/
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Tom Vile wrote:
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> I love the Snom phones as well.  The function keys are great and  
> easy to use.
>
> On 10/31/06, mitcheloc <mitcheloc at gmail.com > wrote:
>
> My vote is definitely for Snom, I've worked with Cisco phones for
> years, but the Snom is much better integrated, and the feature buttons
> can be retooled for any environment, making custom installs very easy.
>
> On 10/31/06, Conrad Wood <asterisk-users at conradwood.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:29 -0600, Joe Dennick wrote:
> > > Comparing Snom to Cisco phones is sort of like comparing  
> Mercedes to Kia
> > > cars....
> >
> > Not really. Both are very good phones.
> >
> > * My Clients prefer cisco because it looks more business-like. -  
> The new
> > snom phones do look better though and the side car rules.
> > * The Cisco phone 'feels' very good in your hand, and the  
> voicequality
> > is superb. (I'd say slightly better than that of the snom 360)
> >
> > * Technically, I find the snom phone more advanced and I can do more
> > cool stuff with it - Cisco doesn't seem to like giving features  
> away in
> > SIP.
> > * Snom phones, for example, have freely programmable buttons that  
> can
> > park/retrieve/transfer calls, show line status etc. I can't get  
> that to
> > work with Cisco phones at all.
> > * Putting custom ringtones (and choosing which ones to use) is a
> > no-brainer with snoms and real trouble with ciscos.
> > * On ciscos, I find the "upgrade" path from sccp to sip a totally
> > unnecessary annoyance.
> >
> >
> >
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