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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7942G
by hunts1874
I have been using this handset for the past 3 months, since the phone system at work was upgraded. So far, so good as this phone has been fantastic. Like any good office phone, the Cisco 7942G has a LCD Display, Speakerphone, Call Forwarding (this is handy when I am not in the office), the ability to conference call and has an extra ... port for plugging in a headset.
The speakerphone is of a good quality. I have found with some phones in the past that the person you are speaking to can't hear you very well or you can't hear the person you are speaking to very well, this is not the case with this phone. I haven't experienced any such problems.
Features that I have found to be useful are being able to dial a number when the phone is on the hook. I find this particularly useful when dialing someone's number I am unfamiliar with and reading it off my emails. The other nice feature is that all my colleagues numbers are saved in an address book which can be accessed directly from the handset. Not that the telephone system at work supports it, but I believe the Cisco 7942G supports Caller ID too.
The Cisco 7942 has a nice selection of ring tones. The handset also have a red light which flashes when the phone is ringing. This is useful if someone in your office was deaf or hard of hearing. The red light is soild when you have a voicemail. The handset also has 1 button dialing for retrieving your voicemail as well as two buttons which you can program numbers for one button dialing. There is room on the handset to fit more of these buttons on, which would have been nice.
I have been very impressed with the phone and I have yet to come across something I need to do with the phone that it hasn't been able to do.
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Cisco IP Phone 7940
by scooke
I use this phone at work on a day to day basis. There are many features that I like about this phone, but the main one has to be that it is the phone that they use at CTU in the hit television series 24. A silly reason I know, but that reason alone probably makes the rest of my review a little biased.Still, I will give you a bit more ... detail on the phones functionality.
All of the functiobnality on this phone is laid out in a good way. The bottons are not too close together, neither are they too far apart. Someone with larger digits should have no problem in selecting the key they intend.
There is a monitor at the top, on the stand upon the telephone sits. In this monitor it displays the time, date, my extension, name and some call options. The three call options (Redial, New Call and Call Forward All) can be activated by pressing the button below. As there are three options you'd expect three buttons, right? Well for some reason they have put four buttons. Pressing the fourth button appears to absolutely nothing. A bit of a waste if you ask me.
Pressing Redial enables you to redial the latest call. selecting the New Call button gives you a dial tone and waits for you to enter a number, without having to pick up the phone. Pretty cool, as you don't have to get a neck ache while waiting for someone to answer. And the Call Forward All button enables you to divert all calls to another phone. A mobile phone, for example, when you are having to work from home due to a tube strike or something.
Beneath the monitor is the number keypad, when you enter the number you are trying to reach. To the right of the number pad are four separaate features; messages, directories, services and settings.
Messages enable you to puick up any voice amils that have been left for you. Your phone headset has a red light that activates when a message has been left for you. A useful feature. To retrieve your messages you need a password.
Directories enables you to see call history such as Missed calls, received calls, Placed call and a Corporate Directory. The Corporate Directory is specific to my work place and enables me to search for a collegee's number via first or second name.
Setting and Services are personalised options where you can adjust thingas like ring volume, contrast, ring type, etc. Not essential functions, but nioce to have.
Finally, there are three final functions at the bottom of the stand. Headset, Mute and Speaker, which are all self explanatory. The headset adaptor does not come as standard with the phone, but is well worth getting, if you spend a good few hours per day on the phone.
Ultimately it is because of the fact that this phone appears in 24 that I give it five out of five Dooyoo stars. But I can't fault to ease of use or any of the functionality. Indeed this phone is very user friendly and a joy to use on a day to day basis, while at work.
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Cisco IP Phone 7940
by litangmu
***NOTE***
This review may have appeared in a similar form on Ciao recently. The account used to make the review was mine under a similar pseudonym and through personal choice I have decided to revoke my Ciao membership, focus only on this site, and move any reviews here. Thank you for your kind attention in this matter. Now for ... the review...
On first moving into accommodation equipped with the Cisco IP Phone 7940 Series, I thought I'd entered some high-powered business executives office! However, appearances really are deceptive when it comes to this phone.
For practicality purposes, it is a VoIP telephone, and it does the job: you can make calls and receive calls, either by using the handset, or by a relatively well designed speaker system which has a high gain microphone. Hands free conversations therefore are not a problem in the slightest. However, this is about where the benefits of the phone end.
The fantastically large display is almost worse than useless; for the most of the time, it displays the Cisco Systems logo; there is nothing else to display! When making a call, yes the display shows the call duration, but besides showing the number you are calling, it shows very little else. The screen can function as a reminder of the date and time, but both are displayed in small fonts and are impossible to see from a distance. The screen is not backlit either, so other than in light, the text on the screen is invisible.
I was desperately hoping for some excellent functionality with the phone, unfortunately this is missing as well. The phonebook, called 'directories', is clumsily arranged and difficult to manage; even entering a simple name requires a large number of key presses, making the task hardly worth the effort. Unless your provider has made provision for the use of the 'services' button (mine hasn't), then this button does absolutely nothing. The settings button does what it says on the metaphorical 'tin', but unless you are a high end user, you would do well to stay away from fiddling with these: you could end up losing your telephone and internet service by an inadvertent key press! In the settings menu you can change the ringtone: all of the two options are unpleasant to the ear.
All in all from a IP phone at this price, I would expect an awful lot more.
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