Polycom today announced the upcoming availability of the Polycom SoundPoint IP 5000, a new entry level SIP conference phone designed to sit alongside it’s bigger relatives, the IP 6000 and IP 7000.
The new IP 5000 comes with many of the features found in the larger models, including HD Voice, but has a smaller microphone pickup [...]

Hot on the heals of announcements from Aastra, Snom and Polycom on their entrance into the growing range of “multimedia phones”, Cisco has announced the release of three new phones:

Cisco Unified IP Phone 8961
Cisco Unified IP Phone 9951
Cisco Unified IP Phone 9971

While all visually identical, the Cisco 8961 is the baby of the range, with [...]

TalkSwitch today has announced the upcoming availability of two new IP phones in their range.  These phones are tailor-made to take advantage of all of the features of the TalkSwitch phone system.
In addition to the current range of rebranded Aastra phones, these phones claim tighter integration and increased features as their primary selling points.
TalkSwitch TS-350i

The [...]

Polycom has just announced the availability of the Polycom SoundPoint IP 335.  The SoundPoint IP 335 is the latest addition to the almost dizzying range of SoundPoint IP phones.

Sporting dual ethernet, an RJ-9 headset jack and HD Voice, the SoundPoint IP 335 represents the new entry level Polycom phone for customers looking for HD Voice [...]

Rhino Equipment Corp today announced the immediate availability of their new Rhino Ceros Desktop.  The Ceros Desktop is the latest iteration in the popular Ceros range of PBX appliances targeted at developers and consultants looking for a quality appliance for their PBX offerings.

Now here’s a rare occurrence, a manufacturer actually delivering their new product before their announced [...]

Hot on the heals of several announcements coming out of the Broadsoft Connections conference, Grandstream today has announced the upcoming availability of an 802.11n/b/g Wireless USB dongle for the Grandstream GXV3140.

The new WiFi USB adapter fully complies with the latest 802.11n
standard as well as legacy 802.11b/g standard. It supports low power
management, and various security standards such [...]

Aastra today has unveiled the newest phone in its premium IP phone range, the Aastra 6739i at the Broadsoft Connections conference.
The Aastra 6739i offers an exceptional user experience with its large, high quality color touch screen combined with an intuitive interface and navigation menus. For unrivalled voice clarity, the Aastra 6739i brings high definition sound [...]

Polycom has communicated the existence of two new models of IP phone, the Sound Point IP321 and IP331.  The SoundPoint IP 321/331 models are direct replacements for the SoundPoint IP 320/330 desktop phones. The 321/331 will come with additional internal memory. It is expected that new software loads for the phones will eventually exceed [...]

Digium has quietly announced on it’s channel portal a new transcoder card.  The TCE400 VoIP Transcoder Card will be available for general release on Tuesday, June 30th, subject to change. The TCE400B is a half-length, low-profile PCI-Express x1 card for packet-to-packet VoIP transcoding with Asterisk. The TCE400B decompresses the complex G.729a (8.0kbit) or G.723.1 (5.3/6.3kbit) [...]

Grandstream has just announced the GXP1200 SIP phone, a 2-line, entry-level sibling to the recently released GXP2020. The GXP1200 phone packs quite a number of features in a very inexpensive package.
The GXP1200 features 2 lines, each independently configurable to different hosts, two switching 10M/100Mbps ethernet ports with integrated PoE, a headset jack, a 128×32 [...]