I just got my new IP phone, an SNOM 190. Looks nice! Ordered it locally from OzVOIP which had them in stock, charges a very reasonable price (pretty much straight the exchange rate from EUR), no postage, and delivered quickly without any hassles.
It’s now attached to our internal company VoIP network, but these phones can have upto 7 profiles so I can “attach” it to lots of SIP servers. One other I’ve already configured is FWD. That actually looks interesting as it has quite a few facilities (such as conferencing) as well as interconnectivity with other networks and gateways. So, good stuff. And it’s free.
I can configure and talk with the phone through a decent web interface. Best discovery: the phone runs Linux 2.4.18 on a PPC, and SNOM makes available the complete sources and cross compile toolkit on their site. Very good!
So, who said Linux wasn’t ready for the desktop?
These days you buy a phone, and it’s right there ;-)
How does the speaker phone sound? Does it use a different ring tone for each switch you have it attached to?
How much did you pay?
I need to pick up a phone, and thus far this sounds like the best one.
The hands-free mode works very well. The other side does notice it’s on the speaker phone, but it’s not too annoying (as it is with many other phones).
You can assign a different ring tone per “line” (provider/switch), and you can group phone book entries into Friends/Colleagues/VIPs/Family/etc and assign a ring tone to that.
The SNOM 190 costs about EUR 200.