Doug,<br><br>Just a note on this subject: I have a Snom 320 at home, and it's got a nice orange MWI that's pretty visible (especially if the apartment is dark). At the office I have a Polycom 501. It's got a great red light right at the top of the phone in the middle. It's very visible unless the phone isn't facing you at all.
<br><br>Alex<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Doug Crompton</b> <<a href="mailto:doug@crompton.com">doug@crompton.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well I have a Grandstream 200 in a home application and so far I have been<br>happy with it. My biggest complaint is that 99% of these IP phones are<br>black!!<br><br>One of the reasons I bought the 200 was because it has a bright red, see
<br>across the room, message waiting indicator. I have not seen that spec'ed<br>on other phones. That doe not meant they don't have it, it is just not<br>spec'd. I imagine the multiline LCD's have it on the screen, but you would
<br>not see that unless you specifically walked over and looked.<br><br>I would be interested if any other phones have message waiting indicators<br>as visible as the GS 200.<br><br>Doug<br><br>On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Tom Vile wrote:
<br><br>> They brake easy.<br>> Speaker phone is not very good.<br>> Overall sound not good compared to a Snom, Polycom or Cisco phone.<br>> Drop registrations with Asterisk randomly.<br>> Power supplies die. Had 4 out of 10 go bad within a year.
<br>> LCD backlight died on 2 that I deployed.<br>><br>> We only do the Snom 320 or 360's now and are just as easy to configure and<br>> have alot of great options as well.<br>><br>> On 11/15/06, Jeronimo Romero <
<a href="mailto:jromero@eusnetworks.com">jromero@eusnetworks.com</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > We are doing a medium sized office in NYC with 80 phones. The customer<br>> > originally requested Polycom 601 phones. The COO also authorized us to
<br>> > purchase 2 Grandstream GXP2000 phones for the mail room. We find these<br>> > phones much easier to configure and work with asterisk . They support BLF &<br>> > intercom right out of the box. They can also be centrally managed and
<br>> > provisioned. They also sound great and work in a very intuitive way. We<br>> > don't have real life experience deploying this phone so I'm just going to<br>> > ask:<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >
<br>> > Is there a catch? Why the huge price difference? These phones seem to do<br>> > everything a busy corporate office would need. Is there a big qualitative<br>> > difference between this phone and Polycom501/601?? Is there a major problem
<br>> > with this phone not disclosed by the manufacturer or vendors. Some feedback<br>> > from people who have deployed them would be great.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Thanks In advance.
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > JR<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by <a href="http://Easynews.com">Easynews.com
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