Mangowww.toao.net
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| Digium IP Phones Looks like we've another contender in the realm of business IP phones. I just received an email from Digium telling me about them.
»www1.digium.com/en/products/phones
Extending Digium’s history of innovation, these IP phones include an app engine with a simple yet powerful JavaScript API that lets you, or programmers in your organization, create custom apps that run on the phones.
[drool]
The Digium IP phones include the following models:
D40—An entry-level HD IP phone with 2-line keys. This is Digium’s best value phone, designed for any employee in the company.
D50—A mid-level HD IP phone with 4-line keys and 10 rapid dial/busy lamp field (BLF) keys with an easy to print paper label strip for the user’s most important contacts. This model is perfect for managers or users who need easy access to their key contacts and features directly from the desk phone.
D70—An executive-level HD IP phone with 6-line keys and 10 rapid dial/busy lamp field (BLF) keys and real-time status information displayed on an additional LCD screen, allowing users to quickly navigate through up to 100 of their most important contacts. Designed for administrators or executives, the D70 offers top-of-the-line features.
They'll be available in April. |
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 TrimlinePremium
join:2004-10-24
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| Nice! Feeding my hardware addiction yet again... 
I had heard that Digium was going to make these basically ready to be plugged in to any asterisk system - full functionality. I'd bite for the mid-ranged unit only if it is WiFi capable.
So... who goes first? |
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| No wifi, or video, or vpn, or bluetooth. I'm sorry, they didn't say innovative somewhere in their product announcement, did they? They are basically Yealink phones. |
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maziloFrom MaziloPremium
join:2002-05-30
Lilburn, GA
kudos:1 | reply to Trimline
Definitely NOT me. 
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 TheMole
join:2001-12-06
Morristown, NJ | reply to Mango
the value i see in the D70 is the (essentially) integrated side car.
too bad it lacks a color or touch screen.
MSRP is reported as: D70 $279; D50 $179; D40 $129
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(1) It's either 99¢ or $0.99; not .99¢ (2) It's "so MUCH fun" not "so fun" |
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Yeah, I'm drooling, too.
Buying one of the Digium phones will make me an Asterisk supporter but then I'll wait 'till Christmas. |
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snowsam
join:2001-04-11
Signal Mountain, TN | reply to tbrummell2
+ 1 on these being next gen Yealinks or Yealink cousins. Too many of the button are in the **exact** same place as the Yealink T22P, T26P, T28P phones.
I've got 40 something yealinks in our office being used with 3CX. Works great. |
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| reply to Mango
I also suspect Yealink as the source for the hardware. Mike at E4 saw these phones while ago and was very impressed with their integration into SwitchVox.
The big question I have revolves around the Javascript API. Who will write applets that leverage this, and to what end?
Polycom and others have long offered an XHTML interface to their phones in the hope that people would write apps to add value/utility to the presence of the phones on desktops.
Most of these are vertical market apps that you'd never know about. For example, there's an applet for them that integrates into the pharmacy systems of a hospital, allowing people in rooms to look up the properties of a specific drug.
IMHO, Polycom's effort met with limited success because the various phone models had very limited display surfaces. No-one could justify the cost of VVX-1500 everywhere to leverage such capabilities.
I would expect that we'll get Digium on a future VUC call to tell us about the details of these new phones, but that might be closer to when they become available.
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