Partner34D Speaker Full Duplex/Half Duplex?

[Midstream]

Does every Partner34D phone have half-duplex speakerphones?

 

[ttech]

Half duplex

 

[jlshelton]

So, for full-duplex, get a single-line Polycom or equivalent, and plug into the AUX port on the Partner 34D phone. This seems to be an AT&T-started tradition: build in mediocre quality speakerphone, and sell an upgraded adjunct.

 

[itpphoneguy]

Hi rockspop,
Another vote for the Polycom. Note these are more expensive than the P-34D. I think we can forgive Avaya here since this would put the cost of the phones high enough to kill any Partner sales.

-Chris

 

[skip555]

This seems to be an AT&T-started tradition: build in mediocre quality speakerphone

I dont think you can blame it on AT&T ,thats been a complaint since the first electronic key systems of every manufcturer.

customer is looking for confrence quaility in a speakerphone ...

can you think of a key system speakerphone that delivers confrence quaility duplex performance ?

 

[paul144]

I do not know of a single "system" full duplex speakerphone, from any manufacturer, that functions well. The ones that I have seen are terrible. As was stated above, a high quality full duplex speakerphone on a "system" phone would make the price prohibitive.

 

[jlshelton]

Apologies for offending AT&T. True, I don't know of any system phones with top-quality speakerphone included.

I am a bit surprised that there aren't a lot of inexpensive competitors to Polycom by now. The electronics are easy with DSP now, and the other components are reasonably inexpensive.

Anyone remember AT&T's "tower" speakerphone? It had a microphone 3 feet tall, standing over a 6 inch cube. Holes in the microphone pole, at roughly 3 inch intervals, collected sound in a way to minimize room echo. Circa 1985.

 

[TheCardMan]

Wasn't that the "Quantum" or some thing like that? It was the "High Performance" of the adjunct speaker phones for them.

 

[supertech2000]

You got the right idea, they were "Quorom" speakerphones as well as S201's and CS201's.