Dec 24
Three completely free VoIP (aka telephone apps) for your Mac
So, you’ve used your Mac in some way in recent times to communicate with someone using one of those VOIP/video apps there are out there, like Skype and iChat..
Aug 09
Jabra M5390 Wideband wireless Bluetooth Headset review
If you’ve read my previous blog post about wideband audio (and yeah, I know, I haven’t finished the series of posts about that, I’ll get around to it honest!) you’ll know I have an obsession with wideband telephony. So when a Jabra reseller offered to give a few of us at work some wireless headsets to try out I was keen as!
Jul 21
New S685 IP Firmware available
Just updated my Siemens Gigaset S685 IP (the bestest Cordless VOIP phone I’ve seen so far!) to v02191 this morning. From the Gigaset website some of the improvements are below but the main thing is the ability to access the Info Center widgets from within the menu structure rather than wait for the screensaver to render. This was anticipated after the interview with Tony Starkus on the VOIP Users Conference last week.
Jun 17
How to make your phone calls sound better!
Quite often people hear me, someone else or the press banging on about “wideband telephony” or “HD phone calls” and have a ton of questions about what this new phenomenon is, so I thought I would start a series of posts on my blog to try and explain in laymen’s terms, with as few acronyms and nerdwords as possible!
Apr 15
Siemens introduces Mute to the S685IP.. yay!
I talked a little about the Siemens S685IP phone yesterday but didnt really mention the new firmware release a couple of days back. This had a widely-anticipated feature, that almost every other phone in the world has had for years: A mute function!
Apr 13
Siemens Gigaset IP phones
Thought I would mention the Siemens Gigaset IP phones because quite a few people have asked me recently for a voip-centric alternative to having a desk phone or some sort of analogue phone attached to an ATA. Particularly in the home environment, people want to have the flexibility that a DECT cordless phone provides; but rather than investing money in obsolete technology, they’d like to buy a cordless phone that has the smarts built-in to offer the cost savings and other benefits that SIP offers.
Steven Perich
Archives
Search
