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Review on Gigaset C530 IP Duo – Cordless VoIP Phone with Additional Handset and Intercom Function for Small Businesses or Home - Supports Landline and IP (Black, Pack of 2) by Wiktor Jakuta ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Not quite what I wanted, but mostly okay.

I bought it on ebay, imported from Germany, and took it quite cheaply, a little more than 1k wooden ones, from which the overall feeling is rather positive. Especially since then I just connected it with a wire to the SPA122 cisco (I also took a BU-shku, it was even cheaper than this pipe) and everything finally worked for me in the best possible way. But in general, this is not the case, of course, I did not expect such spoilage from the Germans. Most likely the matter is in the firmware, but even if you want to ate, where to get it from is not clear. The minimum SIP settings are also available - apparently, it was supposed to load everything you need from their server, but with this approach today, in the absence of support and normal access to this very server, the device practically turns into a pumpkin. In general, in fact it turns out that as a SIP phone it , a completely unusable glucodrome and not a handset, but if you use it as just a phone, then everything is great.

Pros
  • Beautiful design, very good sound (when it works), ordinary wired telephony works just fine. There is also email support, you can register on their server and then various goodies like a weather forecast will work, all this stuff works stably. In general, a more or less sophisticated device. I was also very pleased with the rather simple and seemingly reliable design of the handset and very convenient access to the batteries, the charge of which lasts quite a long time.
Cons
  • When working with SIP, there was such a problem that you hear the interlocutor, but he does not hear you. Moreover, on some operators, most often everything is heard in both directions (Zadarma), on others - not (Multifon and a couple of operators were checked). Telephony proprietary Gigaset and did not work at all, it is not registered on the server and that's it. Also, the "auto-tuning wizard" did not work - it says there is no access to the server. Most often it falls off immediately, sometimes - after choosing a country (choose 2022). The list of operators never loaded. At the same time (after manual configuration), even with free of charge, with which everything worked best, the SIP connection was rather unstable and periodically fell off.