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A customer recently asked us if we could recommend to him something other than a Polycom for his conference room. I realized then that we hadn't really looked into conferencing solutions from other manufacturers, and the team immediately sought out to remedy that.

Today, Counterpath and Vidtel announced interoperability between the Vidtel video conferencing service and Bria ‘enabled’ computers and iPhones. Press release found here.

As promised in our Re-inventing the Desk Phone post, we've reviewed Altigen's iFusion iPhone dock.

‘Time to Re-invent the Desk Phone’ is an interesting piece by Verge1 Consulting President and telecom conference frequenter, Dave Michels. In the post, he first reviews the various shortfalls of the three most commonly used types of phones in today’s office—desk phones, mobile phones, and soft phones—and then describes a list of features missing in current devices that, if implemented, would take the business phone to the next generation.

If you thought you couldn't get a new high definition VoIP phone for under $50, you'd be wrong. This week, we took a look at the GXP 1405, a 2 line (supports 2 SIP accounts) VoIP deskphone from Grandstream Networks. The phone includes a 128 x 40 graphical LCD, speakerphone, RJ9 headset jack, and PoE support. The list price is $65, but you can find it available for much less from online VoIP phone retailers.

Back in April, T-mobile released Bobsled, an application that allowed its users to initiate voice chats with their Facebook friends and leave messages on their walls. For one reason or another, the whole thing was taken down only a week later.

We recently spoke with OnSIP Agent Alex VanSantvoord from VEI Consulting Group about a post-crisis phone system implementation for one of his clients.

Hi Alex. Can you give us a little background info about this situation?

Alex: I have a client who operates a waterfront catering establishment in NYC.

One way to think of the Yealink SIP-T22P is that it's the company's SIP-T28P executive phone with the dedicated memory / BLF keys chopped off, a smaller LCD, and fewer lines.

We've made an update to our Polycom Boot Server (firmware version 3.1.3 to version 3.1.4) that fixes a security issue on 'legacy' Polycom models. In the past, the web interface for some of the older models displayed SIP passwords in plaintext instead of masking them. While this is a seemingly minor issue, we can't stress enough that every little bit counts when it comes to securing your SIP account credentials.

The Yealink SIP-T28P is an affordable PoE enabled, 6-line business desk phone with a 320 by 160 pixel backlit LCD, and support for wideband audio, BLF, and SMS.

Check out our full write-up of the phone here.