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Polycom SoundStation2 Avaya 2490 Conference Phone Expandable
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Meet all your teleconferencing needs with the full-duplex Polycom SoundStation. This conference phone is ideal for small- to medium-sized rooms containing one to five people. With conventional, half-duplex speakerphones, only one party can speak at a time without clipping off the other party's voice. Echoes and howling can further disrupt your conversations and lead to costly misunderstandings. But because of the SoundStation's full-duplex operation, you can speak naturally and hear both sides of the conversation clearly.
The SoundStation ensures high sound quality with three microphones and a digitally tuned speaker for 360-degree coverage of an office or conference room. Polycom's Acoustic Clarity Technology uses digital signal processing with analog telephone lines to eliminate the clipping and fading that plague most speakerphones. This technology improves speaker and microphone performance over the full bandwidth of the telephone line--300 to 3,500 Hz. Other features that boost sound quality include dynamic telephone-line and dynamic room-echo cancellation, signal depression, microphone switching, and digital filtering of voice signals.
The SoundStation has a full alphanumeric keypad for dialing, with a mute button and a flash key to access functions like hold, conference, and transfer. There is also a jack to plug in a tape recorder. Dual-colored LEDs signal phone status, and other controls include a ringer volume, speaker volume, and microphone mute.
The SoundStation does not work with all analog phone system or with an adapter (sold separately) for digital phone systems. It comes with a wall module, 25-foot power cable, 7-foot telephone cable, and a one-year warranty.
Melissa
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2018
This is the best quality speakerphone system available. Easy to use!
Jimmy James
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2017
Still works
Aram Stepanian
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2016
defective , never used. Junked,
Howard B. Wallace
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2011
I knew about Polycom from my days with a telecom company and thought it might help my 86 year old uncle with a bad shoulder which made it difficult for him to hold the phone and hearing issues carry on a phone conversation with his brother in a distant city. The attributes of the Polycom that I thought might make a big diffeence were it's full duplex operation, large speaker and good microphones. The price was a show stopper until I found a used one in the $100 price range. My sister and I gave it to my uncle for his birthday and it worked very, very well. Both uncles rave about the ability to finally have good chat. Thanks Polycom!
Sandy's Mom
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2010
This has worked great since the day we received it. It's reliable, easy to use and sound is pretty good in a smaller room.Have to be mindful of its placement in a larger conference room so phone participants can hear everyone talk.I recommend this product!
Red Aril
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2009
The condition of the unit was extremely poor. Missing Polycom logo. Very beat up.
Christopher Chirdon
Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2006
The product worked rather well for about 8 months with occasional use. Though it saw only light occasional use it failed (no power, no reason why). I called to have it returned via RMA and was promptly issued an RMA number on October 2nd (10/2).Things became very busy for me and I expected to see the unit any day for the past 4 weeks. Nothing came in. Today (11/2) I called to find out why the replacement unit had not yet been returned. I was told that it had been received on (10/10) and was ready to ship. I was also told that for purposes of "stock control" RMAs were held for 30 days before shipping. I was told that the unit (even though it was ready to ship) would not be shipped until 11/10 but never fear! It would be shipped via 3-day Air. Whoopee! (sarcasm).As I do the purchasing for my department and have done better than 10 RMAs this year I have NEVER had a product take so long to be replaced nor dealt with a company that seems to have a punitive "hold period" on RMA cases. We have been without this conference phone for more than 4 weeks and will be without it for another 2 weeks before receipt of the replacement unit. All the while, no conference phone.To sum up. I'm not at all happy with this company's RMA policy. I don't expect next day service but for a $300 phone I expect much better service than I received.
tommyr
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2003
No question about it, Polycom make the best speakerphones. This particular model is a compromise; its better than many phones but far from the best that Polycom can do. Here's the scoop.This model uses three microphones (one in each corner of the triangle), all of which remain active the entire time. Depending on your room acoustics and where you sit/stand, you may sound like you are talking from inside of a deep well (kind of a hollow echo). Better Polycom models (like the Soundstation Premier) avoid this by only leaving one microphone active at a time, and with higher quality components and circuits. For example, noice canceling circuit to to remove background noise, a feature lacking in this model.That said, you may still be happy with this model, as it costs a whole lot less than the Premier version and is way better than the built-in speakerphones included in many desktop handset units. To decide you need to consider how important the quality of your conference calls is, and what kinds of acoustics the room that you'll be using has. If you need the best, go with the Premier, otherwise this is a solid model.
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