asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Difference between Snom 190 & Elmeg 290?

Hi list!

While looking for the Snom 190 I found another phone, the Elmeg IP 290 
(www.elmeg.de).

Looking at the pictures & the specs they seem to be very similar beasts 
but the firmware is supposedly not interchangeable.

Does anyone know the difference between the 2, do they work with Asterisk?

The weird thing is that Elmeg has similar phones with the Snom look but 
they are ISDN only (no voip) while Snom has several other models that are 
IP. Who's cloning who? I don't want to end up with phones for which 
firmware support or update will disappear soon while the 'orginal' will 
continue to be supported?

Thx!
Remco

Am Samstag 05 M?rz 2005 07:58 schrieb Remco Barende:
> Hi list!
>
> While looking for the Snom 190 I found another phone, the Elmeg IP 290
> (www.elmeg.de).
>
> Looking at the pictures & the specs they seem to be very similar beasts
> but the firmware is supposedly not interchangeable.
>
> Does anyone know the difference between the 2, do they work with Asterisk?
>
> The weird thing is that Elmeg has similar phones with the Snom look but
> they are ISDN only (no voip) while Snom has several other models that are
> IP. Who's cloning who? I don't want to end up with phones for which
> firmware support or update will disappear soon while the 'orginal'
will
> continue to be supported?
>
Can't say anything about support, but my personal research told me that they
are the same - no even more they are identical.

Jens

On 5 Mar 2005, at 06:58, Remco Barende wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> While looking for the Snom 190 I found another phone, the Elmeg IP 290 
> (www.elmeg.de).
>
> Looking at the pictures & the specs they seem to be very similar 
> beasts but the firmware is supposedly not interchangeable.
>
> Does anyone know the difference between the 2, do they work with 
> Asterisk?
>
> The weird thing is that Elmeg has similar phones with the Snom look 
> but they are ISDN only (no voip) while Snom has several other models 
> that are IP. Who's cloning who? I don't want to end up with phones
for
> which firmware support or update will disappear soon while the 
> 'orginal' will continue to be supported?
The way I heard it was that Snom had some trouble with the mechanical
design of their earlier phones so bought the case design in from an 
existing
ISDN phone maker. I guess that must be Elmeg.

I guess the outer look tells you nothing about the hardware let alone 
the firmware.

Tim.

Hello Remco,

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Remco Barende wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> While looking for the Snom 190 I found another phone, the Elmeg IP 290
> (www.elmeg.de).
>
> Looking at the pictures & the specs they seem to be very similar beasts
> but the firmware is supposedly not interchangeable.
>
> Does anyone know the difference between the 2, do they work with Asterisk?
>
> The weird thing is that Elmeg has similar phones with the Snom look but
> they are ISDN only (no voip) while Snom has several other models that are
> IP. Who's cloning who? I don't want to end up with phones for which
> firmware support or update will disappear soon while the 'orginal'
will
> continue to be supported?
Elmeg has been for a long time a manufacturer of ISDN Phones and small to
medium PBXes in germany. Snom uses the chassis of the elmeg phones and
puts their own electronics in them. So it seems very likely that the elmeg
IP-Phones are in fact Snom phones. I do not wether the firmware can be
changed across elmeg and snom, but if there are no artificial barriers in
place that prevent this this could be possible.

Torsten
>
> Thx!
> Remco
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There is a partnership between Elmeg and snom. We are using their
plastic (in the snom 190/200/220), they are using our hard- and software
(in the Elmeg 290). Elmeg have a long experience in making phones and we
have experience in making hard- and software for VoIP (as long as it can
be in the SIP-based industry). A good partnership!

We call it "snom inside"...

CS 
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> 
> Hello Remco,
> 
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Remco Barende wrote:
> 
> > Hi list!
> >
> > While looking for the Snom 190 I found another phone, the 
> Elmeg IP 290 
> > (www.elmeg.de).
> >
> > Looking at the pictures & the specs they seem to be very similar 
> > beasts but the firmware is supposedly not interchangeable.
> >
> > Does anyone know the difference between the 2, do they work 
> with Asterisk?
> >
> > The weird thing is that Elmeg has similar phones with the Snom look 
> > but they are ISDN only (no voip) while Snom has several 
> other models 
> > that are IP. Who's cloning who? I don't want to end up with 
> phones for 
> > which firmware support or update will disappear soon while the 
> > 'orginal' will continue to be supported?
> 
> Elmeg has been for a long time a manufacturer of ISDN Phones 
> and small to medium PBXes in germany. Snom uses the chassis 
> of the elmeg phones and puts their own electronics in them. 
> So it seems very likely that the elmeg IP-Phones are in fact 
> Snom phones. I do not wether the firmware can be changed 
> across elmeg and snom, but if there are no artificial 
> barriers in place that prevent this this could be possible.
> 
> Torsten
> >
> > Thx!
> > Remco
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