[asterisk-users] wifi sip phone real-world experiences?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Monday 04 June 2007 8:24 am, Bryan Laird wrote:
>   - Physically the phone feels very light and cheap, that if you were
> to drop it that it might not survive very many of them.  The buttons
> feel more
> like a toy than anything else but once you get beyond that it works.

How are they for big hands?  I'll have to do some checking around to see if I 
can find a rubber case for it or something, it's all concrete floors here.

> - Address book storage is ok the interface from the phone is fairly
> standard for what you would see in a cell phone and adding entries
> isn't really
> all that horrid of a task.  You can also add entries via the web
> interface which does make for an easier way to add several entries
> but the lack of
> anything resembling a 'sync' function could be considered bothersome.

Bugger.

> Last thing, one neat thing about the wip300 if you are adventurous is
> the fact that the firmware is under GPL... so if you really felt like
> it you could probably change the behavior of
> the phone.

This I was not aware of.  I will certainly evaluate this phone and it's bigger 
brother.

> Anyway sorry for the long message but I felt like chiming in on
> this.  All in all I don't think it's a horrible phone I do however
> think it's over priced for what it is but not enough demand on
> this type of device is always going to keep the price up in the air.

Your message is *exactly* the kind of reply I was hoping to get.  Thank you so 
much for taking the time to write such a long response.  I truly appreciate 
it.

-A.