On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Kelvin Chan wrote:
One of our local companies here in the UK are trialling a new conference
phone - the "Konftel 300IP SIP" however it's still as expensive as a
Polycom, but that might be the $/£ exchange - might be cheaper where you
are?
It seems like an interesting product. Compared to Polycom 7000, it's
roughly $400(list price) cheaper. Just out of curiosity, the product is
made in Sweden. It should be cheaper in UK. How much are they selling
over there?
http://www.provu.co.uk/konftel_300IP.html
or £499.99
A Polycom IP4000 from another UK disty is £525.00, so not much in it.
http://www.voipon.co.uk/polycom-soundstation-ip4000-p-253.html
The 7000 is £683:
http://www.voipon.co.uk/polycom-soundstation-ip7000-p-921.html
For wifi phone, I tried Linksys iPhone. It works well but lacks a
cradle. My users often forget to charge it when they leave for the day
and come back to a dead wifi phone for the next morning.
Any good recommendations?
DECT not Wi-Fi?
Can you get the Siemens range over there?
DECT is not wifi. It is just another digital wireless protocol built for
wireless phones.
I'm not sure what do you mean by Siemens range.
I was a bit too terse there... I mean "Why not use DECT rather than
Wi-Fi".
My Wi-Fi experience is only with 2 phones - The UT Starcom F1000G and my
Nokia E90. The F1000G is rubbish. Actually, it was OK until I upgraded it,
then it became rubbish. The real issue is that it doesn't have a built-in
web browser, so to get it to latch-on to a public Wi-Fi access point is
almost impossible as all the ones here (UK) needs some sort of
registration system which needs a web browser to work.
The Nokia E90 is better in that respect, but at the end of the day,
they're still Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi is basically a "reasnable effort" transport
mechanism as far as I'm concerend.. It's trivially easy to swamp the air
with uploads/downloads, etc. from other PCs, making VoIP over Wi-Fi
problematic at best...
Siemens make a good range of "VoIP ready" DECT phone systems - their
Gigaset range. Base stations have an Ethernet port and off you go. There
are also repeaters to extend the range too - although I've only ever used
a Snom repeater (with Siemens phones!). I do not recomend the snom M3
range of DECT phones. All the ones I've installed have been returned...
Gordon
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