Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US
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Looking at their main website today, I do not see the phone they used to have. but the new one with the built in side car is a better option of the same knid of thing.
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@JaredBusch I love that they built the sidecar in. I've only seen separate ones before. That looks really nice. Be nice to have one to see what kind of build quality it has and of course how reliable it worked.
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@JaredBusch said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
@jmoore said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
I know prices are good but this doesn't seem worth the trouble if you were a business.
Actually, Fanvil is one of very few companies that make a phone with a bazillion individual BLF keys.
It is something that a lot of folks coming from legacy key systems always seem to hang up on.
And they seem to have one of the broadest overall phone ranges. Handsetless models, door models, intercom models, paging consoles...
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@jmoore said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
@JaredBusch I love that they built the sidecar in. I've only seen separate ones before. That looks really nice. Be nice to have one to see what kind of build quality it has and of course how reliable it worked.
We are attempting to get a few. We are hiring like crazy right now, so a good time to get a few out there for testing.
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@JaredBusch said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
Looking at their main website today, I do not see the phone they used to have. but the new one with the built in side car is a better option of the same knid of thing.
yeah, I love the look of that one.
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@JaredBusch said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
Looking at their main website today, I do not see the phone they used to have. but the new one with the built in side car is a better option of the same knid of thing.
Sexy!
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@Dashrender It does look really nice!
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I cannot find it anywhere on their website, so maybe I am mistaken on the brand.
But my memory tells me it was a Fanvil phone. Basically it was a standard SIP phone but it had 3 or 4 rows of BLF keys. It looked like any old key system phone that you are used to seeing.
Similar to this, but SIP.
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@JaredBusch said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
I cannot find it anywhere on their website, so maybe I am mistaken on the brand.
But my memory tells me it was a Fanvil phone. Basically it was a standard SIP phone but it had 3 or 4 rows of BLF keys. It looked like any old key system phone that you are used to seeing.
Similar to this, but SIP.
I don't know that one.
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Well we are trying them out. Our first two internal use Fanvil X4U phones arrived yesterday and today. One is here in my office temporarily and one just arrived today at a home office in Augusta, Georgia. So far, they look and feel great. I really like the second screen that is built in, and the solid rubber stoppers on the hook is great and the speakerphone sounds really fantastic. Haven't played with it much, but from look, feel and sound it's quite nice. We've not done remote programming of them yet, so no feedback on how well that works yet.
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@scottalanmiller said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
Well we are trying them out. Our first two internal use Fanvil X4U phones arrived yesterday and today. One is here in my office temporarily and one just arrived today at a home office in Augusta, Georgia. So far, they look and feel great. I really like the second screen that is built in, and the solid rubber stoppers on the hook is great and the speakerphone sounds really fantastic. Haven't played with it much, but from look, feel and sound it's quite nice. We've not done remote programming of them yet, so no feedback on how well that works yet.
I have an address book script for them that works.
https://github.com/sorvani/freepbx-helper-scripts/tree/master/ContactManager_to_Fanvil_AddressBookNever got good feedback from the guy that I helped. May have bugs.
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@JaredBusch said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
@scottalanmiller said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
Well we are trying them out. Our first two internal use Fanvil X4U phones arrived yesterday and today. One is here in my office temporarily and one just arrived today at a home office in Augusta, Georgia. So far, they look and feel great. I really like the second screen that is built in, and the solid rubber stoppers on the hook is great and the speakerphone sounds really fantastic. Haven't played with it much, but from look, feel and sound it's quite nice. We've not done remote programming of them yet, so no feedback on how well that works yet.
I have an address book script for them that works.
https://github.com/sorvani/freepbx-helper-scripts/tree/master/ContactManager_to_Fanvil_AddressBookNever got good feedback from the guy that I helped. May have bugs.
Hopefully doing our first remote provisioning today. I have the first one on my desk so set it up by hand. Hopefully going out to the end users this afternoon if all goes well.
Thanks!
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@scottalanmiller said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
Hopefully doing our first remote provisioning today
Without a device I have not looked closely, but what I did read says it is XML and using some kind of intelligent verbiage. and not just fucking P codes.
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I have the X4U ordered from Amazon ($77) for delivery on Sunday.For the price point, this could be a very workable "standard" phone for people if it proves out the quality and features.
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@JaredBusch said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
I have the X4U ordered from Amazon ($77) for delivery on Sunday.For the price point, this could be a very workable "standard" phone for people if it proves out the quality and features.
Note, the price point is better from distribution. But buying a one off, it is hard to beat the ease of amazon.
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I know aesthetics have zero to do with a phone, but that looks really nice....
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@brandon220 said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
I know aesthetics have zero to do with a phone, but that looks really nice....
It does, in person, too.
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Fanvil is readily available in many regions and the problem people have had is not with the hardware. It's firmware upgrades that breaks things, intermittent problems, provisioning stops working, DSS keys that stops working etc. All related to software.
Consensus among those that deploy both Yealink and Fanvil has been to get Yealink if possible as Fanvil causes a lot more support issues over time.
But hopefully Fanvil is getting better so it will be interesting to see what you guys think in a year or so.
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@Pete-S said in Fanvil Availability and Suport in the US:
Fanvil is readily available in many regions and the problem people have had is not with the hardware. It's firmware upgrades that breaks things, intermittent problems, provisioning stops working, DSS keys that stops working etc. All related to software.
Consensus among those that deploy both Yealink and Fanvil has been to get Yealink if possible as Fanvil causes a lot more support issues over time.
But hopefully Fanvil is getting better so it will be interesting to see what you guys think in a year or so.
That’s why I am buying one to test. Since warranty/support is supposed to be available now, that means it is time to test.
