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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Where did you get these cheap phones?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adam
Ford<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 05, 2010 11:21 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Looking for some good/cheap desktop
phones</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">I just picked up old model Polycoms. You can get the
IP301’s for ~$60-70 new and the IP501s for ~$100 new. They
don’t have some of the fancier features of the new Polycoms, but they
carry the same quality and configurability(with the exception of NAT).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">-Adam</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Yehavi
Bourvine<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 05, 2010 6:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org">freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Looking for some good/cheap desktop
phones</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From my experience Polycom and SNOM are expensive but give
you what you need. Polycom is more intutive to the users but more cumbersome
for the manager to deploy; SNOM is somewhat less intuitive to the user but
everything can be set via the WEB interface.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you talk about 4-5 phones, then probably SNOM is the
choice. It also depends about the specific functions you want to use. I our
specific environment (high use of BLF and shared lines) Polycom wins because it
handles these functions just as the user expects.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I did not try Aastra so cannot testify. We did test Yealink,
Thomson, Asterphone, SipTip and maybe others I forgot. Cisco also seems good
but Cisco does not supply the required socumentation to make them fully
working.</p>
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Regards, __Yehavi:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2010/2/5 Тимур Валишев <<a href="mailto:tim@novion.ru">tim@novion.ru</a>></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sure, those phones do not deliver superior usability, but
they at<br>
least give the best sound among budget models.</p>
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2010/2/5 Brian West <<a href="mailto:brian@freeswitch.org">brian@freeswitch.org</a>>:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">> And all of those are awful phones. They don't even
make good paper weights.<br>
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> You can't have good and cheap in the same sentence when talking about VoIP
phones. You have to take your pick between quality (good) and price
(cheap) you can't have both at once.<br>
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> /b<br>
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> On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:36 AM, Тимур Валишев wrote:<br>
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>> Have a look at Yealink (Skypemate) and Fanvill<br>
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