[asterisk-users] Snom 300 vs Grandstream gxp

[Gordon Henderson]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:

> Can anyone who has used both comment on the pros and cons ? Need to buy
> about 30 of these, for a small company with limited IT support.

You get more phone for your money with the Grandstream, but ...

You'll hear a lot of people here who've had bad results with them in the 
past, so will be baised against them, and there were early issues with 
software quality - and still some issues with newer software on holder 
handsets, however ...

I've deployed a lot of Grandstreams - 100's. Mostly GXP2000s but one place 
(a small school on a tight budget) went for BT200's with a single GXP2000 
for the reception and they're happy. If budget was that tight, I'd look at 
the GXP280's though.

Audio quality in the Snoms is probably better. Build quality is a little 
better too - the handsets are slightly heavier.

I find call transfers easier on the Grandstreams - also the display (on 
the GXP range) is much bigger than that Snom 300's. That's nice if you're 
putting up number->names.

The web interface on both is easy enough if you're not auto provisioning. 
(I don't auto provision the grandstreams as such, but use a utility called 
'gsutil' on them) However, while it's very comprehensive, I think there's 
too much information there!

Well - that's my input... (mostly on Grandstreams though!)

Gordon