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Grandstream Networks' GXV3175 IP Multimedia Phone: No Skimping

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March 23, 2011

Grandstream Networks' GXV3175 IP Multimedia Phone: No Skimping

By David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor


Looks like we are on industry observer Eric Kaplan’s wavelength: “Nowadays the thought of using a phone that actually rests on a countertop seems obsolete with all the cell phones and iPads.”

Grandstream Networks (News - Alert), far from fretting about the death of an industry, sees it as an opportunity. As Kaplan writes, the company is offering “a home phone that actually sits on a countertop. No, this isn’t a nostalgic flashback to 1987, and the GXV3175 is not your grandmother’s rotary antique.”


Company officials are billing the phone as the one you want, “without the glitches of so many video conferencing phones.” Kaplan does a good job taking a closer look at the phone:

“The desktop multimedia phone has a 7-inch 800×480 resistive touchscreen that enables you to make state-of-the-art video conference calls. Unlike the previous model, the GXV3140, the GXV3175 offers no buttons to press. The touchscreen offers a visual and auditory prompt to show that your command has been understood.”

Yes, the phone has the standard stuff you expect on an IP multimedia phone -- caller ID, call waiting, three-way conference, all the basics, and throws in a curve ball with a built-in Web browser, RSS News, weather forecasts, Internet radio, media player, picture viewer, games, calculator, alarm clock, file manager, YouTube (News - Alert), Google Voice and more.”

Let’s see your old touchtone phone do that.

And when it comes to the hardware, Kaplan notes that “Grandstream Networks didn’t skimp on anything,” giving the phone “Ethernet Ports (auto-sensing Dual switched 10M/100M), Tilt Capable 1.3M (News - Alert) pixel CMOS camera with privacy shutter (VGA) and auxiliary ports (RCA Type Stereo and Media output port, 3.5mm stereo headset port, 2 x USB port and a SD card slot).”

Earlier this month, TMC (News - Alert) wrote that unless you enjoy spending a lot of money for VoIP hardware, the latest Grandstream phones, four additions to their GXP series aimed at fulfilling desktop phone needs for SMBs, should interest you, according to a recent review from OnSip.com:

“Today we’re going to be taking a quick look at the GXP 2100, a phone that currently sits in the middle of the pack. Introduced back in October of last year at ITEXPO (News - Alert) West, the GXP 2100 is Grandstream’s 4-line desktop phone.”

It supports HD audio on the handset, and features a back-lit 180 x 90 LCD “that’s small but gets the job done,” the reviewer notes, adding that “if you’ve ever used an older Grandstream phone from their GXP series, then you’ll be familiar with the key setup on the 2100.”


David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Tammy Wolf







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