More known for their line of analog terminal adapters (ATA's), Sipura has released their first business hard phone. Small in size and large in features, The Sipura SPA-841 IP telephone can be configured as a two (2) line or, via a simple software upgrade, a four (4) line full featured business phone with pixel based graphical display, speakerphone and headset port. Stylish and functional in design, the SPA-841 can be used in residential, SOHO, enterprise and small to medium business service offerings including IP PBX, hosted IP telephony and IP Centrex. We put the phone to test to see if it lived up to the high standard that we are used to with other Sipura products. http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24> &task=view&id=24 -Kerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050410/a7c78d6f/attachment.htm
Kerry Garrison wrote:> http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24 > <http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24> > > -Kerry >Just make sure you don't have a cordless or cell phone near by or the headset jack will "receive" a considerable amount of interference into your conversation (when NOT using a headset). Also don't even try using a headset... volume is low and there is a loud humming noise. Last annoying factor is that pressing a Line button while already engaged in a conversation on that line will disconnect your call. Better example-- You're in a conference call with L1 and L2 You want to put L1 on hold and talk to L2 privately Most phones, you'd just press L2 On the 841 doing so would disconnect L2 and leave you speaking with L1 Regards, Trevor Peirce
Message: 16 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:45:23 -0700 From: "Kerry Garrison" <kerryg@techdatapros.com> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SPA-841 Phone Review To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Message-ID: <0MKyxe-1DKiN332CB-0000tV@mrelay.perfora.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I didn't experience those issues. I use both 900mhz and 2.4ghz phones as well as several cell phones in this location. Are you using the most current firmware? -Kerry -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Trevor Peirce Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:56 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SPA-841 Phone Review Kerry Garrison wrote:> http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2 > 4 > <http://www.geekgazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id> 24> > > -Kerry >Just make sure you don't have a cordless or cell phone near by or the headset jack will "receive" a considerable amount of interference into your conversation (when NOT using a headset). Also don't even try using a headset... volume is low and there is a loud humming noise. Last annoying factor is that pressing a Line button while already engaged in a conversation on that line will disconnect your call. Better example-- You're in a conference call with L1 and L2 You want to put L1 on hold and talk to L2 privately Most phones, you'd just press L2 On the 841 doing so would disconnect L2 and leave you speaking with L1 Regards, Trevor Peirce _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list I too, don't seem to have any of the problems you indicate. I find the phones seem to work quite well on headphone as well. However I have upgraded two of our phones from the supplied 0.9 software to 3.0 and the headphone and speakerphone become unusable due to background noise muting the incoming headset and speaker audio. I have discovered that you can lock up the ones with 0.9 sw if you set the provisioning wrong. I got out of it by disconnecting the newtwork cable, changing the ip of the unit and was able to get back into them. Apart from that they seem to be good value for money and do the job well. I just hope sipura can fix the overactive muting on the speakerphone/headset or I need to get hold of sw to downgrade the two phones back to 0.9 cr
Well, I bought two of these when they were first released.. They seemed like VERY nice phones for the money except for the fact that the headset jacks did not work at all on either device. Tried multiple headsets none of them worked. I had to return the phones.. I also remember the buttons getting stuck down a lot.. It seems that there are LOTS of issues with the headset jack for folks. If Sipura could make the headset jack solid, it would be a great, affordable phone in my opinion.>>SNIP>>
We have successfully tested the Sipura phone with Plantronics 2.5 jack headsets. It works well, but it still is very sensible to GSM parasites ;) Regards, Thibault Me wrote:> Well, I bought two of these when they were first released.. They > seemed like VERY nice phones for the money except for the fact that > the headset jacks did not work at all on either device. Tried multiple > headsets none of them worked. I had to return the phones.. >
On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:05 am, Me said:> If Sipura could make the headset jack solid, it would be a great, > affordable phone in my opinion.Never had a problem with the headset jack. Now the speakerphone... They ought to be ashamed of themselves for advertising it as a feature of the unit. It absolutely stinks. Totaly useless. Also, very little in response to repeated request for attention on a fix other than "try the latest firmware" which does little other than making it even worse. Criminal! Paul -- Paul A. Dugas Dugas Enterprises, LLC paul@dugasenterprises.com 1711 Indian Ridge Drive p:404-932-1355 f:770-516-4841 Woodstock, GA 30189-6856 USA
I found the speaker phone and the headset work ok on the original v.9.x software that came with the units, when I upgraded 2 of them to v 3.x the headset and speakerphone become unusable. I am looking to try and downgrade these units back to v 0.9 so I can use the headset on them. It would be nice to use share call appearances with * so I can turn them into a key telephone system like the system they replaced, but that is something I will have to work on. Apart from that they are brilliant for the price craig Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:36:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul Dugas" <paul@dugasenterprises.com> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SPA-841 Phone Review To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Message-ID: <38443.192.168.1.5.1113928569.squirrel@dugas.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:05 am, Me said:> If Sipura could make the headset jack solid, it would be a great, > affordable phone in my opinion.Never had a problem with the headset jack. Now the speakerphone... They ought to be ashamed of themselves for advertising it as a feature of the unit. It absolutely stinks. Totaly useless. Also, very little in response to repeated request for attention on a fix other than "try the latest firmware" which does little other than making it even worse. Criminal! Paul -- Paul A. Dugas Dugas Enterprises, LLC paul@dugasenterprises.com 1711 Indian Ridge Drive p:404-932-1355 f:770-516-4841 Woodstock, GA 30189-6856 USA
if I have conf => 80,111 in meetme.conf, I dial 80# and connect to the conference, then I dial 111#, it indicates pin is incorrect. with other phones it works. Is there something special in the sipura config that will allow more digits after the # master Craig wrote:> I found the speaker phone and the headset work ok on the original v.9.x > software that came with the units, when I upgraded 2 of them to v 3.x > the headset and speakerphone become unusable. > > I am looking to try and downgrade these units back to v 0.9 so I can use > the headset on them. > > It would be nice to use share call appearances with * so I can turn them > into a key telephone system like the system they replaced, but that is > something I will have to work on. > > Apart from that they are brilliant for the price > > craig > > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:36:09 -0400 (EDT) > From: "Paul Dugas" <paul@dugasenterprises.com> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SPA-841 Phone Review > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Message-ID: <38443.192.168.1.5.1113928569.squirrel@dugas.homeip.net> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:05 am, Me said: > >>If Sipura could make the headset jack solid, it would be a great, >>affordable phone in my opinion. > > > Never had a problem with the headset jack. Now the speakerphone... > They > ought to be ashamed of themselves for advertising it as a feature of the > unit. It absolutely stinks. Totaly useless. Also, very little in > response to repeated request for attention on a fix other than "try the > latest firmware" which does little other than making it even worse. > Criminal! > > Paul >
It works for me with the default SIP settings. I am using the latest firmware. I have found that you have to restart * for it to pick up on the new PIN code however. On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 01:58, Master Abi wrote:> if I have conf => 80,111 in meetme.conf, I dial 80# and connect to the > conference, then I dial 111#, it indicates pin is incorrect. with other > phones it works. Is there something special in the sipura config that > will allow more digits after the # > > master > > Craig wrote: > > I found the speaker phone and the headset work ok on the original v.9.x > > software that came with the units, when I upgraded 2 of them to v 3.x > > the headset and speakerphone become unusable. > > > > I am looking to try and downgrade these units back to v 0.9 so I can use > > the headset on them. > > > > It would be nice to use share call appearances with * so I can turn them > > into a key telephone system like the system they replaced, but that is > > something I will have to work on. > > > > Apart from that they are brilliant for the price > > > > craig > > > > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:36:09 -0400 (EDT) > > From: "Paul Dugas" <paul@dugasenterprises.com> > > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Sipura SPA-841 Phone Review > > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > > Message-ID: <38443.192.168.1.5.1113928569.squirrel@dugas.homeip.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > On Tue, April 19, 2005 10:05 am, Me said: > > > >>If Sipura could make the headset jack solid, it would be a great, > >>affordable phone in my opinion. > > > > > > Never had a problem with the headset jack. Now the speakerphone... > > They > > ought to be ashamed of themselves for advertising it as a feature of the > > unit. It absolutely stinks. Totaly useless. Also, very little in > > response to repeated request for attention on a fix other than "try the > > latest firmware" which does little other than making it even worse. > > Criminal! > > > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users