I just receive a BeoCom 5 with table speaker (and Beocom 5 base-station). First of all there is no mentioning of the IP or the VOIP possibility, the only evidence is the small connector on the base-station. So I have no clue if or how VOIP works. Secondly is the quality of the sound and microphone on the handset very poor. But the worse part is after app 5 min speaking on the phone the line gets really bad and the after 10 to 15 sec it gets better. On the same base station I use the "oilder" 6000 handset without a problems
This the again a B&O product I bought directly after launch were the are all kind of problems.
My question to the forum is do you see the same with the new B&O products always problems at introduction and in general worse quality than in the past?
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Beocom 5 quality in general
Beocom5 is particularly dreadful. The speaker base just DOES NOT WORK (as you describe). It is impossible to hold a conversation through the speakerphone. This was SUPPOSED to be solved with the new release of software, but it made no difference at all. Other issues with the handset were not solved by the software release either. The dealer has taken my Beocom5 kit back for a full refund. He also was appalled at the shear insincerity of B&O to release a product like that, which annoys customers and embarasses dealers.
My Beocom 6000s continue to work perfectly. The only problem I have with them is that if I have a (non-B&O) speakerphone plugged into the same telephone outlet, it intermittently "steals" the caller-id information first and the 6000 doesn't receive it. This is why I was so pleased at the announcement of the Beocom5 speakerphone... and so disappointed that it is useless. I have fitted a switch on the connection for the speaker phone, so that I only switch it through if I need the speaker. At all other times the 6000s are perfect.
The BeoCom 5 is no VoIP phone. You will need an ATA in order to have it connect through the Internet (together with a VoIP subscription)
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Karel is right. Calling Beocom5 a VOIP phone is misleading and B&O shouldn't do that. The base has two standard analog line-in sockets, and that's it.
I have a feeling that early in the development cycle it was supposed to have VoIP features, but they ran out of time and/or resources (which seems to happen with every B&O product that involves software) and now the mention of it just refuses to die.
Siemens has some great PSTN+VoIP (SIP) phones that work extremely reliably, so the technology is ripe enough. If just the handsets weren't such plastic abominations...
i'm wondering when we can expect a software update..........this is insane for that kind of money.
I've said it before... 😁
*I* wish they simply would have added speaker capability to the BeoCom1/6000 handset... and made it retrofittable!
B&o did not need to dive into this crazy new phone... esp if it was to be their last land line product ever!
Go out gracefully...
Can we get a refund😡
Can we get a refund😡
What a shame...
I see Mika is on this thread... and he likes to experiment!
What do you think, Mika... Am I crazy or do you think I could get the speaker in a 6000 to act in a "hands free" mode? In my typical "hammer and chisel" approach... seems like it would fly?!?!?
My favourite kind of experiment: I come up with something and somebody else uses it to break his kit 😂
Frankly I only own a Beocom 1600 and don't even use that. But the hands-free speakerphone function requires local echo cancellation to function useably... I'm sure it's implemented in software in these kind of phones so there's not much you can do to retrofit it.
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