By Doug Mohney, on February 7th, 2012
One of the most interesting/subtle marketing moves Digium did on its phones is to put the phrase “HD voice” on the handset. There aren’t a lot of people who do that right now.
As I’m flipping through pictures and leftovers from IT EXPO East 2012, I see Denwa has its phone handset stamped with “HD” with [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 2nd, 2012
Miami, FL – Panasonic (www.panasonic.com/sip) has rolled out a $499 7 inch color touch screen Android-based desk phone. But they say they can’t call it Android due to legal headaches with Google.
The KX-UT670 is certified as compatible with a bunch of different SIP-based platforms, including Asterisk, BroadSoft, and Metaswitch. Codecs supported include G.722, G.726.
Panasonic Product [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 1st, 2012
Miami, FL – A brief stop at the Digium (www.digium.com) booth at IT EXPO East revealed the following tidbits on the new family of IP phones–
1) The phone was designed and contracted solely by Digium — it is *not* a OEM/white label product.
2) Manufacture of the phone is done in China by one of those usual [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 1st, 2012
Miami, FL – There are at least three vendors touting new IP phones or software/firmware upgrades to their phones here at IT Expo. I thought we were done with handsets already?
Digium is getting a lot spin along with a good measure of WTF by rolling out its own IP phones; three to be exact, [...]
By Doug Mohney, on February 1st, 2012
IT EXPO East 2012, Miami – Digium (www.digium.com) has rolled out the “World’s First Phones Designed for Asterisk.” There’s a trio of new IP handsets. All of them support G.722 out of the box.
In the company’s press release, Digium says the new family of phones are the first engineered to “fully leverage the power of [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 20th, 2012
Aastra (www.aastra.com) will have several of its 6700i SIP phones included in Earthlink’s Complete Voice hosted business voice service. Anyone spot the irony here?
The Aastra 67xxi series phones feature G.722 and were among the first phones deployed in quantity by 8×8, with a firmware upgrade turning 8×8 into the largest single business hosted HD voice “island” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on January 20th, 2012
Deutsche Telekom (DT) this week has officially rolled out an Android DECT phone with native G.722 support, plus there’s an iPhone G.722 SIP client for in-home WiFi use. It’s the latest move by DT to expand its HD voice support in the consumer world.
The Speedphone 700 is an Android-based home phone with an 8.1 inch [...]
By Doug Mohney, on December 15th, 2011
Invoxia (www.invoxia.com) has announced the NVX 610, a VoIP phone with an iThings (iPhone/iPhone/iPad) dedicated app to enable dialing from the iThing, plus facilitate “mobile convergence.” You can receive calls to an iThing mobile as well as VoIP based calls.
The big draw/brag with the NVX 610 is a total of eight 8 mics and 8 “high-quality” [...]
By Doug Mohney, on November 21st, 2011
Irish VoIP service provider Blueface (www.blueface.ie) has announced a Panasonic handset promotion with HD voice threads.
Customers purchasing a Panasonic HD voice capable TGP 500 handset for 99 euros will get an extra handset free; the handset is listed at a value of [...]
By Doug Mohney, on November 11th, 2011
An ophthalmic producer and supplier focusing on the Latin America market is buying a Switchvox solution with Cisco HD voice capable phones. Integrated Lens Technology (ILT) has contracted with TelOnline to put in business phone/unified communications solutions into Miami, Costa Rica, Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador and 14 countries in Latin America, according to the press release
The solution [...]
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