{"id":255,"date":"2008-03-05T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/voip-hardware\/the-best-dual-mode-bang-for-your-buck\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T08:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:50:50","slug":"the-best-dual-mode-bang-for-your-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/the-best-dual-mode-bang-for-your-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Dual Mode Bang For Your Buck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Brocious here.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a Technical Support Representative at VoIP Supply. My core responsibilities are to listen to customers\u2019 needs, specifications, and answer any questions about a product or solution on a post-sales basis. I started my career with VoIP Supply back in October 2007 as a provisioning and testing specialist. This position allowed me to get a firm understanding of the VoIP technology, specific product applications and uses, and proper setup and configurations on an open-sourced, SIP-based environment.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to talk about a product that has been in my sights for some time now. That product is the <strong>UTStarcom GF210<\/strong> Dual mode phone, and by \u201cdual mode\u201d I mean it uses a GSM (Cell Phone Network) and a VoIP WiFi Network.<\/p>\n<p>Since the introduction of the phone back in December 2006 I have had the pleasure of working with this piece of equipment only a handful of times. This is due to the ease of setup and the durability of the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to setting up the GSM network capabilities of this phone it is as easy as removing the battery and sliding in a SIM card from your cell phone carrier, then re-inserting the battery and powering on the unit. The process should take no more than two minutes to complete.<\/p>\n<p>As for the WiFi setup, that will take some patience and a little maneuvering of the phone User interface. After timing the complete process and verifying the registration, it took a little over seven minutes. Overall that is not bad, considering that other UTStarcom products take about double that.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the features that I would like to point out are a 1.8 inch 65k color display, text messaging, polyphonic ringtones, MMS support, built-in games and a WAP browser.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to the existing WiFi phones offered from Linksys, Hitachi, and D-Link, the <strong>UTStarcom<\/strong> <strong>GF210 <\/strong>is fairly inexpensive, retailing on VoIPSupply.com at $239.99, which makes it a very affordable personal class phone for all types of environments and applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Brocious here. I\u2019m a Technical Support Representative at VoIP Supply. My core responsibilities are to listen to customers\u2019 needs, specifications, and answer any questions about a product or solution on a post-sales basis. I started my career with VoIP Supply back in October 2007 as a provisioning and testing specialist. This position allowed me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310387,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/310387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}