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VoIP: Strike the Right Focus

The way a considerable number of industry critics see it, there are two principal problems with the buzz surrounding the utility of VoIP DECT phones.

For one, VoIP IP Telephone technology will likely fail in allowing users to save as much as they would like since VoIP DECT phones along with other digital devices will need to be updated sooner or later. Users, in the end, simply have to shell out considerable dimes and nickels just so they could get their hands on premium hardware so as to sustain the quality of the calls.

However, compared with the fact that a great portion of the consumer populace opt for VoIP DECT phone systems for the wrong reasons, this is the smaller problem on the plate, not to mention a bit moot. After all, sooner or later, all technologies need to be updated. Users of cordless phones with VoIP support are not the only ones in the consumer populace who have to worry about upgrading each and every single digital doodad that they have inside their trusty bags filled with world-beating electronics. There are many reasons why the consumer electronics industry is often regarded as the temple of the temporal. Change is imminent at all times. Technologies are not static—they’re fluid. It’s the same in the case of cordless phones with VoIP telephony. Thus, users worrying about a system getting old or about upgrading their hardware is like people fretting about loosing their teeth and hair, worrying about getting old. It’s not something users have to particularly lose sleep over.

The bigger issue involves this growing consciousness among consumers about what VoIP telephony is all about, of what it is and what it is capable of. And while this consciousness is not completely flawed, it is, nevertheless, universally questionable.

Just take a look at numerous consumers who believe that VoIP DECT phones are simply all about enabling them to make and take calls. After that, they get lost in the additional user choices the unit is equipped with. Some of them think that the incredible degree of functionality that call waiting or three-way call conferencing offers is already one of the main draws of the unit. Address books integrated into the cordless phone that are well able to support 100 to 200 contacts, with corresponding information are also quite popular. It’s not such a wonder then why most cordless phones available in the market like the VoIP IP Telephones that Snom recently introduced—this includes the Snom 300 sip phone, the Snom 320 sip phone and the Snom 360 sip phone—pack along built-in phone directories that are not only capable of handling as well as storing numbers and contact information but are also designed to allow for easy data downloading. There are even cordless phones that allow users to update their data with ease each and every time.

Still, no matter how helpful these features are, they are merely improvements. They’re nice but they’re not exactly what one principally looks for when opting to buy the ideal cordless phone unit. This, along with other features such as voicemail, caller ID, call forwarding ­and yes, even customizable ring tones, are not the dominant functions one has to be particular with.

They’re not entirely useless, of course. These features aid users in a number of functions as well as operations, turning work a little less weary and tedious. But some users keep forgetting the fact that the units they have are not typical cordless phones. Swirls of functions are nice but that’s not the entire range of what cordless telephones with VoIP support can do.