Touch Screen meets Desktop - the snom 870

Awarded by the Internet Telephony Services Providers' Association (ITSPA) of the United Kingdom, the snom 870 VoIP telephone is our latest innovation for all modern people with high demands for future-oriented technology. The large high-definition TFT color display offers an advancement in technical innovation. This display is a completely newly designed touch screen with unique, intuitive user interface. More information at: http://www.snom.com/en/products/ip-phones/snom-870-touchscreen-voip-phone/

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[feastures]

I get the impression that the touch display being above the key pad, and in general being at the top of the device, will make it not so comfortable to use. Reason is that the the hand can not rest anywhere comfortable or easily hold the device, in order to supply a reference for hand/finger movement. The full hand with finger has to be moved/directed through the air. This kind of motion is much less precise or costs much more effort to make precise and fast. Place the touch display below!

[snomvoip]

@feastures snom870 is a high-end business phone that has a full featured telephone keypad in addition to its high resolution touch screen display. Instead of just offering its discerning customers a touch only device like some contemporary cellular phones, snom870 attends to the basic business telephony needs of the users first and foremost. The numeric keypad and the function keys are ergonomically designed to be easily accessed by one hand resting gently on the desktop.

[snomvoip]

@feastures This allows for quick movement to the next key the user intends to press; really convenient when the user wants to control standard call features e.g. mute, call on hold, etc. The touch screen sits on top of the standard keypad to give as much information and offer advanced features like drag and drop transfer, conferencing to the user. If the hand is resting on the desktop, it is comparatively hard to move the fingers around especially to drag and drop without wrist movement...

[snomvoip]

@feastures If snom were to ever develop a telephone model without numeric keypad, it’s more likely than not that the display would be placed in a central location to offer an on screen keyboard and giving the user a better option to dial digits.

[allengoodge]

I am currently using Voip plan from vontrump.com on my nokia set and its great!

[landiscomputer]

@memyselfandi83 On being able to plug a full sized keyboard into the unit: rarely do you need to type numbers on the phone. Typically your phone book will be automatically provisioned from the PBX. (using the free snom ONE Win/Mac/Linux pbx). If you are using a pbx that can't do that you can easily log into the phone webui and setup your contact list.

I think deskphones might want to consider the track mobile phones are taking: auto sync with gmail/ live/ exchange contact address books.

[oztabletpc]

@feastures Having the touch display below the keyboard would probably create issues of accidental input. As the touch screen is not the primary input device (keypad is) it would be unlikely to cause ergonomic issues as is. I think it is a very interesting and and well designed device.

[drivememad]

Too bad it's not a video phone!

[kermitthefragger]

@annefrancegoldwater If you think Cisco is compatible with open standards just take one of their 'SIP' phones and hook it up to lets say Asterisk. Basic call functionality will probably work. But when you try something more 'advanced' like hints you will bump into issues. When you examine those issues you will probably come to the conclusion that the phone doesn't adhere to the SIP specification.

Now try opening a case in Cisco TAC and see how fast it gets closed with won't fix....

[evald80]

Beatiful, superb but not cheap!

More than 300 euro for this VOIP phone!