[asterisk-users] Snom vs Polycom

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Andrew Latham <lathama at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have worked on many snom phones over the years....  I have never had
> a snom phone go bad...

I guess you are not long enough in this business.

>
> I have repaired stuck screens and overheated sticky bits but all in
> all snom are great phones.  I recently showed my personal phone to
> some people including a VoIP engineer that fell in love with my snom
> 360...  It has scratches and dents from use and abuse but the real
> shocker was when I turned the phone over and showed them the date of
> manufacture ... 2004...
>
> I am working with some Polycom phones right now.  They look ok.  I
> don't hear any "better speaker" that people talk about.  They are
> troublesome to administrate or provision as a single phone.
>
> With Polycom the LDAP requires an additional license.  With snom the
> firmware is mostly OSS and you can download and play.  It does really
> cool things with LDAP and HTTP...
>
> I have worked with Aastra and Grandstream also in the past amongst
> others and I have found that some models are better than others and
> each vendor must make something good once in a while just to stay in
> business...
>
> Having demo phones is priceless.  Sometimes I show off the phones I
> like with some phones I don't like to show the end users why it
> matters...  Bad screens, cost, features, color (snom snow rocks!),
> etc...
>
>
> ~
> Andrew "lathama" Latham
> lathama at gmail.com
>
> * Learn more about OSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
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>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
>> Randy R wrote:
>>> http://twitpic.com/z8n36
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>>>
>>
>>
>> *snicker*
>>
>>
>>
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