I use speaker phone on my Polycom IP650 all the time. Never get a complaint. Sometimes when I have my morning meeting with the boss, He'll ask me a question and the receptionist from across the hall (15ft) will answer in a normal speaking voice. And he'll hear it no problem. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:26 PM To: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Grandstream VoIP phones On 08/17/2012 01:22 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
The Grandstreams from a few years ago gave us a lot of issues on SIP and provisioning, but that's gone as far as we've seen. I originally turned down the offer of some demo phones based on past experience, so I urge everyone to discard that experience and see it as a new product.
The Grandstream ATAs have also been an interoperability nightmare, both on the electrical and IP side.
I mainly judge phone hardware by the quality of its speakerphone, since I'm a very heavy user, so it may be a personal bias. However, by that metric, the Cisco 79xx's and Polycoms win, and Grandstreams, Snoms and Aastras lose.
Yeah, I'd never use speakerphone when talking to anyone, so user type will be important here. I always recommend a headset to the speakerphone users, about 50% go for it.
With a good speakerphone, having a conversation with someone over it, at a reasonable distance from the phone, and speaking at a relatively natural conversational volume... shouldn't be a problem. The reason I stay with the Cisco 7960, for all its problems and clunky SIP image UI, is that the hardware itself is just unbeatable. Nobody ever complains of being unable to hear me on my 7960's speakerphone, of tinny sound, feedback, unsteady volume, etc. The Polycom's is almost as good. Everything else sucks in this regard, though I haven't tried the SPAs. -- Alex -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 235 E Ponce de Leon Ave Suite 106 Decatur, GA 30030 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.alexbalashov.com/ _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
Can someone tell me something about yealink Phones? Siwangu Sent from my BlackBerry? smartphone -----Original Message----- From: "Nick Olsen" <nick at flhsi.com> Sender: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.orgDate: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:29:37 To: <voiceops at voiceops.org> Reply-To: nick at flhsi.com Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Grandstream VoIP phones _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
We had one of their 22Ps to evaluate and liked it enough to keep it. It feels well built, was easy enough to create remote provisioning for and then it just worked. --Dave -----Original Message----- From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of svmgata at sihebs.co.tz Sent: 17 August 2012 21:21 To: nick at flhsi.com; voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Grandstream VoIP phones Can someone tell me something about yealink Phones? Siwangu Sent from my BlackBerryR smartphone -----Original Message----- From: "Nick Olsen" <nick at flhsi.com> Sender: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.orgDate: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:29:37 To: <voiceops at voiceops.org> Reply-To: nick at flhsi.com Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Grandstream VoIP phones _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
I think you misunderstand. The problem for me it's not the microphone, as the polycom does an excellent job picking up voices and cancelling background noise. My problem is people cranking up the speaker volume and yelling into the phone. On Aug 17, 2012 1:20 PM, "Nick Olsen" <nick at flhsi.com> wrote:
I use speaker phone on my Polycom IP650 all the time. Never get a complaint.
Sometimes when I have my morning meeting with the boss, He'll ask me a question and the receptionist from across the hall (15ft) will answer in a normal speaking voice. And he'll hear it no problem.
Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106
------------------------------ *From*: "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com> *Sent*: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:26 PM *To*: voiceops at voiceops.org *Subject*: Re: [VoiceOps] Grandstream VoIP phones
On 08/17/2012 01:22 PM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
The Grandstreams from a few years ago gave us a lot of issues on SIP and provisioning, but that's gone as far as we've seen. I originally turned down the offer of some demo phones based on past experience, so I urge everyone to discard that experience and see it as a new product.
The Grandstream ATAs have also been an interoperability nightmare, both on the electrical and IP side.
I mainly judge phone hardware by the quality of its speakerphone, since I'm a very heavy user, so it may be a personal bias. However, by that metric, the Cisco 79xx's and Polycoms win, and Grandstreams, Snoms and Aastras lose.
Yeah, I'd never use speakerphone when talking to anyone, so user type will be important here. I always recommend a headset to the speakerphone users, about 50% go for it.
With a good speakerphone, having a conversation with someone over it, at a reasonable distance from the phone, and speaking at a relatively natural conversational volume... shouldn't be a problem.
The reason I stay with the Cisco 7960, for all its problems and clunky SIP image UI, is that the hardware itself is just unbeatable. Nobody ever complains of being unable to hear me on my 7960's speakerphone, of tinny sound, feedback, unsteady volume, etc. The Polycom's is almost as good. Everything else sucks in this regard, though I haven't tried the SPAs.
-- Alex
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