Windows Embedded PBX Appliance Powered by pbxnsip To Replace Response Point?

I understand the white unit beside this snom 870 is a Windows Embedded small business phone system powered by pbxnsip. I sighted this in the wild (More picture Here) and understand it is being developed by a pbxnsip partner in Europe. I think a low cost, low power consumption, Windows-based (to boot! ;-) phone system unit like this would be very interesting to see on the market. Because of pbxnsip's low system resource requirements it is a great embedded application.

Today is the day that support for Microsoft Response Point end. Harry Brelsford and Ed Carnes talk about/commiserate? about the now defunct Microsoft Response Point phone system for small businesses and what their response is to RP death. It is evident in my mind that there is still a place for an affordable and easy to manage phone system. We all know communication solutions are going software--and with so many admins and users knowing Windows it is a natural for small business. I think 3CX, pbxnsip and other Windows pbx solutions are at the right place.

Read Harry and Ed's Look Back On ResponsePoint Here.

(scroll down a bit, Harry gets a little carried away with content ;-)

Polycom CX500 Phone First Impression Video: El-Cheapo Buttons?

This was at the 2010 Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference. I was surprised at the phone button and chassis quality--I expected better from Polycom. The buttons felt like a cheap phone at a hotel buttons! The display was very nice with eye catching graphics and Communication server presence. This phone is a standalone phone that requires no PC unlike most other polycom OCS phones.

Currently snom, Aastra and Polycom are the 3 manufacturers that make standalone handsets for OCS or CS "14".



Below is my colleague Wendell and I checking out HP's Communication Server branch office equipment at the WPC2010 expo. Communication Server was very well represented at WPC--it really appears to be up and coming!

Some Windows Phone System Releases & Announcements This Week of June 19, 2010

3CX announce RC2 of version 9 of their Windows based phone system. They keep adding features at an absolutely dizzing pace. You can read more:
http://www.3cx.com/blog/news/3cx-phone-system-9-rc2/

Just in case you missed it, 3CX also aquired an Android based SIP client. The resident Android fan boy here at Landis Computer (not me ;-) did a quick test of the client but said that while it really looks nice he wasn't able to get it to register so he used another Android SIP client. We plan to do a video review of the 3CX Android client as soon as a little time affords. Read More Here.

Blink, the "best SIP client in the world", announced a new Mac release. Read more here: http://icanblink.com/changelog.phtml

 Blink for Windows and Linux has been postponed, according to http://www.icanblink.com/ website. From my experience AG Projects puts out very quality software. I'm looking forward to Blink for Windows and I expect it to be similar quality once it gets here.

Who Has Mobile Market Share? My List of Mobile Smart Phone Marketshare Charts

Whose has marketshare? Here are some charts and reports I found. (I can't vouch for them and didn't research further. ;-)

Read More Here:
http://blog.7touchgroup.com/2010/02/apple-iphone-whopping-25-u-s-market-share/

Read More Here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone_share_2009_full.png

Why Aren't More People Federating?

Tommy Clark asks: Why Wouldn't We Connect 360 Million People To Our Communication Solution?
Right now having the option to see presence, do video calls or desktop sharing with 360M might seem futuristic. But some day BDM's will be smacking themselves on the forehead and say "what were we thinking?"

I also wonder if some standard mechanism to make it easier to federate and add users from other phone systems using SIP needs to be devised?

Read Tommy's Article Here:
http://www.cinline.se/2010/06/why-not-connect-360-000-000-people-with-your-business/