On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:37:25 -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: >Good to know, I was going to get one in to test. I tried the UTStarComm >F1000G but its ergonomics, flaky wifi and quiet speaker caused it to fail for >me. I'm currently waiting on the new Siemens phone to come in to test. >Aastra says they have a standalone wifi phone "in the works" but no hard date >at this point.
>What all these wifi phones are missing is bluetooth. Such a shame, as it >could be used both for presence and for wireless headsets. The Zultys 4x5 desk phone, which I tried for a couple of months last year, has bluetooth capability. It sucked in so many other ways that I was happy to sell off. The other thing to consider is range and coverage. The Hitachi WIP-5000 worked well withint about 15m of my APs...then became seriously unreliable. The 480 cordless unit I've tested to approx 90m away from my desk before the call quality drops. I suspect that the corldess unit is not unlike a normal 2.4 Ghz digital cordles phone as when its call quality suffers it over distance it manifests in analog noise and choppiness...not a dropped call like a wifi handset. Michael _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
