[cisco-voip] 8945 Phones impressions

[Nathan Reeves]

Just been pointed out that the Hold button is available, but it's a physical
button but not a softkey.  So I take that issue back :).

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Nathan Reeves <nathan.a.reeves at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, the cannibalizing risk seems to make the most sense on the current
> feature state of firmware.  Same risk applied to the SPA500 series which has
> the SPCP protocol check to make sure it's working against a UC500 device.
> The risk of the phones otherwise replacing the 79XX phones was too high
> (though the 69XX series appears to be closer to the SPA's).
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Nick Matthews <matthnick at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It all more or less makes sense - these are descendants of the 99xx
>> series phones, but a souped-up 6900 series phone.  More or less just a
>> cheap way to get video out to some basic employees.  I'm not sure if
>> Cisco really wants to beef up the firmware on the 69xx series phones
>> to the point of cannibalizing the 79xx series phones.  Things like no
>> VPN support, slow UI, maybe even background are definitely because of
>> the hardware skimps to keep the cost down.
>>
>> Outside of that - it's pretty cool to be able to get a video phone for
>> the same price as a 7945.  Video is kind of like IM - valuable in
>> numbers.  If you can roll this phone out to a big group you can start
>> to get into the use case.
>>
>> -nick
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Nathan Reeves
>> <nathan.a.reeves at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Interested to know others impressions of the 8945 (make that 894X)
>> phones.
>> > Some things noted here from experience (some additonal notes on another
>> guys
>> > blog post here:http://ben.thepolzins.us/2011/06/22/cisco-894x/).
>> >
>> >  - No custom backgrounds.
>> >  - No customer ringtones
>> >  - UI is slow to respond.
>> >  - Services provisioning set to 'Both' causes the phone to only pick up
>> the
>> > external URL.  Still working on what's going on here.
>> >  - No custom softkeys.
>> >  - No 'Hold' on an active call, you have to Park the call.
>> >  - Internal Web server will submit all variables in a script back to the
>> > server.  79XX phones will only submit variables where data has been
>> > entered.  Note that we found the same all variable submission issue on
>> > SPA5XX phones as well.
>> >  - Internal web server doesn't submit the browser type and version like
>> the
>> > 79XX phones did.
>> >
>> > All up, nice hardware (esp built in video), shame about the software.
>> The
>> > above notes were made against the SCCP software.  Also found that
>> there's no
>> > specific line item in the Bug toolkit to search against the firmware on
>> > these phones yet.
>> > Nathan
>> >
>> >
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