📞 Yealink YEA-W56P - Business HD IP DECT Cordless VoIP Phone and Device in Silver Review

I bought this to replace the Snom M3 system. Yealink W56P has a very nice interface and unlike the Snom system, the DECT base is POE, so installation is easier (just one cable). I hooked this up to an Asterisk system and the sound is great. Both the phone's speaker and speaker aren't Polycom Soundstations, but they do have more bass presence than the M3 phones. One thing Snom did that Yealink doesn't is show how many vmail messages I have that are NOT new. New messages are received with no…

Pro was corrupted) It supports OpenVPN, one of the few phones that does. Wireless Headphones. The headset has access to many settings that allow you to control the device right from there. Con) The status screen does not show any SIP connection or OpenVPN connection stations, only network and headset status. The sip status is very limited, there seems to be only 3 statuses (Disabled, Registered, Registration Failed), to find out more you have to read the syslog and it mixes with everything else

Before we switched to this system we were using vtech analog cordless phones with a Cisco PAP2T analog adapter for about 6 years. I've been using the Yealink YEA-W56P system for a few months and I'm very happy with it. The sound quality is good; Our customers hear us much better than on our Vtech phones. Battery life was excellent. We have a low call volume and can go about 2 weeks without a fully charged phone. We use the system with RingCentral. I found Hesk's review very helpful, but still…