Re: [asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:33:27 -0800

CP,

I've never heard complaints about the Snom 320 speakerphone hardware, nor do I think they sound bad from using the phones myself. I believe Snom did make a significant improvement to their speakerphone hardware not to long ago.

Of course, there is never any guarantee on the "quality" of something, since I don't think something can please everyone. Maybe other users of this phone can post their feedback here as well and based upon that you can get a good idea of what your results should be.

Jessee Holmes

Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation

www.atacomm.com

V: 1-877-700-VOIP

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On Nov 1, 2006, at 5:24 PM, cp wrote:

Do the speakerphone’s work well on Snom 320’s?  I have a Linksys 841 and could never get the speakerphone working well.

 

-CP

 

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jessee J Holmes
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Snom or Cisco Phones?

 

Writing this as a user of VoIP and not a reseller, (meaning off the record), we really love the Snom phones here as well, I wish the Snom 300's had a bit more functionality (like the Grandstream), and the Snom 320's and 360's were a little less confusing with their buttons (aka too many buttons on the keypad for some non-tehcy end users).

 

But they have terrific functionality and great audio quality in most office environments, and are very easy to set up and install. Everyone seems to really love them.

 

The Cisco phones are nice as well, but IF you decide to go with Cisco, READ what you are buying and what you are getting before just blindly buying it (in fact, do this anyways, it's common sense to do this before buying any product, anywhere). Cisco products normally don't come with half of the items you need, and unfortunately most resellers (and Cisco) don't make this too easy to read and understand. DO NOT buy refurbished Cisco if you want support, especially since there has been some bogus Cisco voice equipment shipping lately from some of the certified Cisco resellers/distributors. Network World had an article on this recently: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/102306counterfeit.html

 

Cisco may have a great look to their phones and have the design very well thought out (not to mention the big Cisco name - which is good enough for some), but they are normally harder to install and configure and are VERY proprietary. If you buy Cisco, Cisco wants you to ONLY buy Cisco (for support and marketing reasons).

 

Snom 320's are a great choice just because these phones mainly support everything the Snom 360's support (i.e. sidecars) Only main differences between these two models is that the Snom 360 has the larger LCD screen as well as newly added XML support.

 

We have about 50 stations here, some management, some support, some sales and have pretty much decided as a company to completely use Snom phones for all of our employees.

 

Keep in mind, each phone out there will have their specific pro's and con's, as well as quarks ... seems there is no real "perfect phone" out there yet. But Snom in my mind, is pretty dang close.

 

This all of course is just personal opinion from past experience.

 

Jessee Holmes
Atacomm / Ataractic Corporation
www.atacomm.com
V: 1-877-700-VOIP
 
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On Nov 1, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Tom Vile wrote:



I love the Snom phones as well.  The function keys are great and easy to use.

On 10/31/06, mitcheloc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

My vote is definitely for Snom, I've worked with Cisco phones for
years, but the Snom is much better integrated, and the feature buttons
can be retooled for any environment, making custom installs very easy.

On 10/31/06, Conrad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:29 -0600, Joe Dennick wrote:
> > Comparing Snom to Cisco phones is sort of like comparing Mercedes to Kia
> > cars....
>
> Not really. Both are very good phones.
>
> * My Clients prefer cisco because it looks more business-like. - The new
> snom phones do look better though and the side car rules.
> * The Cisco phone 'feels' very good in your hand, and the voicequality
> is superb. (I'd say slightly better than that of the snom 360)
>
> * Technically, I find the snom phone more advanced and I can do more
> cool stuff with it - Cisco doesn't seem to like giving features away in
> SIP.
> * Snom phones, for example, have freely programmable buttons that can
> park/retrieve/transfer calls, show line status etc. I can't get that to
> work with Cisco phones at all.
> * Putting custom ringtones (and choosing which ones to use) is a
> no-brainer with snoms and real trouble with ciscos.
> * On ciscos, I find the "upgrade" path from sccp to sip a totally
> unnecessary annoyance.
>
>
>
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