[Freeswitch-users] Looking for some good/cheap desktop phones

[Gavin Henry]

I would put Aastra before a snom, but then again Aastra always wants a reboot!

On 06/02/2010, Frank Carmickle <frank at carmickle.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, Christian Jensen wrote:
>> The response on this thread has been great!
>>
>> I wonder if there should be a link off the FreeSwitch site for vendors for
>> these phones.... hint hint.
>>
>> >From what I have been hearing here and elsewhere, the preference is
>> Polycom,
>> Cisco, Grandstream, Aastra in that order.
>
> Hmmm...  That's not the impression that I got at all.  From what I picked up
> on this thread it would look more like
>
> polycom snom aastra cisco grandstream
>
> I'm sure others can speak to how Cisco doesn't do presence right.  They are
> harder to provision then Snoms and Polycoms and in my opinion don't sound as
> good either.  To me they sound dull and fuzzy on transmit.  I've heard about
> four different versions of 7940/7960.
>
> The Snom 3x0 series have suffered in the speaker phone department until
> version 7 firmware.  Version 8 betas have sounded even better yet.  Make
> sure that if your going to be using headsets with Snoms that you ground the
> phone to something.  This can be done by either having a shielded network
> cable attached to a grounded switch or computer, or order them with the
> grounded power adaptor.  They give you the not so grounded adaptor by
> default.  Finding shielded ethernet can be kind of tricky but it is nice to
> have.
>
> Polycom speech quality is my favorite if you can handle the ringy under
> water sounds of the background noise especially on speaker.  It sounds like
> there's a fish tank running near by if there's any white noise.  I believe
> this to be the case because the way they split the audio up in to many bands
> to process it.  Maybe less steep filters would help.
>
> It's hard to believe how many people just don't care about call quality.  It
> starts with a good sounding phone that doesn't echo or hum.  I'd like to
> hope that we are doing our part to help the world sound a little better all
> the time.
>
> --FC
>
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