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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=584132104-05042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I tend to agree.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=584132104-05042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>We own some Polycom 500's and a bunch of
841's.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=584132104-05042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>the 500 looks nicer, but its an abolute PAIN to
configure.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=584132104-05042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The 841 is simple, and does basically the same
thing.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=584132104-05042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>One of the bigger headaches we have had stemmed from
putting the power phone users on the 500's. they aren't able to help the
other users as much because they don't have a 841. You can tell the
difference on the sound and speakerphone features. The polycom
speakerphone and mic are much much better. But it's just a phone and most
people have no idea what they are.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=584132104-05042005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>In fact, I had a technician in house last week and he asked
to use the phone. I pointed him to a SPA-841 and explained he was welcome
to use it and to make sure to hit Dial "like a cell phone" when he placed his
call. After he was done 20 minutes later I asked what he thought of the
phone. He asked why and I explained that it was a new VOIP phone and that
his call had gone across our network to the server and then out the phone
line. He said he'd had no idea and that he was really impressed with
it. I then spotted a phone I hadn't configured in the same area and
configured it in the space of about 5 minutes and when he asked to call again I
pointed to that phone and mentioned that it now worked just like the other one.
hehe.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Rod Bacon
[mailto:rod.bacon@empoweredcomms.com.au] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 04, 2005
2:00 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Asterisk-Users] Buying some Polycom
IP300s<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Over the last few weeks/months I have been testing
phones and ATAs from Grandstream (BT101, GXP2000, 286, 488), SNOM (190), Zyxel
(Piece of Crap), Sipura (SPA-2000, SPA-841) and I personally feel that the
Sipura SPA-841 is the best value, good quality phone that I have used. I haven't
used the polycoms yet, but I plan to in the next few weeks.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=DMorin@ABBCOInc.com href="mailto:DMorin@ABBCOInc.com">Dan Morin</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 03, 2005 10:22
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Asterisk-Users] Buying some
Polycom IP300s</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005>Sorry =or the
double post, I tried to paste and accidently sent the
email</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005><SPAN
class=375571400-03042005>I've been playing with Asterisk for a few =eeks now,
and I've gotten everything to work well with softphones, so I'm ready to =ove
on to normal VoIP phones. I've been looking around and reading =omments
that people have had, and I was convinced that the Polycom IP300 was a great
=hone for a good price. But, then I ran into this page, which has been
=pdate in the last few days:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005><SPAN
class=375571400-03042005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005><SPAN
class=375571400-03042005><A
href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Polycom+SoundPoint+IP+500">http://w=w.voip-info.org/wiki-Polycom+SoundPoint+IP+500</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT><=DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005><SPAN
class=375571400-03042005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005><SPAN
class=375571400-03042005>The page in the wiki used to say that the =erson
would not recomed Polycom phones to anyone. So anyway, I just want to
=ake sure that the IP300 is a good choice. I don't want to get cheap
phones =hat aren't business quality, since I do play on using them for my
business =fter testing. Also, is the IP500 worth the extra money?
What can =t do that the IP300 can't. And finally, will the IP300 do ulaw
encoding?</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005><SPAN
class=375571400-03042005></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=889171900-03042005><SPAN
class=375571400-03042005>Thanks in advance.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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