{"id":85133,"date":"2014-05-20T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/?p=85133"},"modified":"2016-07-26T14:28:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T18:28:21","slug":"badly-photoshopped-voip-phones-as-spaceships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/badly-photoshopped-voip-phones-as-spaceships\/","title":{"rendered":"Badly Photoshopped VoIP Phones as Spaceships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I first started at VoIP Supply in 2008 I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time selling, researching, writing about and testing VoIP phones. On the side I&#8217;ve also spent a little bit of time \u201cunorthodoxly testing\u201d VoIP phones by using them as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10151134014199903.503594.87810209902&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">shot-puts, discuses<\/a>, for archery practice and <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/+voipsupply-phones\/albums\/5982218977050044625\" target=\"_blank\">hockey shot accuracy<\/a> to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Another side to my time with VoIP phones takes me back to my time in high school where on a Friday afternoon my mind would drift and I\u2019d start doodling in the margins of my notebook but now instead of classes I&#8217;ve got a job and instead of a notebook I&#8217;ve got Photoshop. So sometimes on a late Friday afternoon or after a particularly long day my mind starts wandering and I start imagining VoIP phones as spaceships and tinkering around in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately where my imagination sometimes excels in this field, my Photoshop abilities are lacking . So may I present a small sampling of, \u201c<em><strong>Badly Photoshopped VoIP Phones as Spaceships<\/strong><\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85143\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Badly Photoshopped VoIP Phones as Spaceships\" width=\"770\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><br \/>\nIn this rendering I imagined the Polycom SoundStation Connect as a nimble, agile attacking fighter while the <a href=\"\/cisco-spa232d\">Cisco SPA232D <\/a> is a slower moving cargo transporting ship.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85163\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-2-1024x588.jpg\" alt=\"Badly Photoshopped VoIP Phones as Spaceships 2\" width=\"770\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-2-1024x588.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-2-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-2-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-2.jpg 1391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><br \/>\nThe old 1st Generation LifeSize Conference phones remind me of something you&#8217;d expect to see in classic UFO\u2019s from sci-fi movies from the 50\u2019s and 60\u2019s or when you visit Area 51.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-85253\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-4-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Badly Photoshopped VoIP Phones as Spaceships 4\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-4-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-4-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-4-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-4.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><br \/>\nThe <strong>Konftel 300 conference phone<\/strong> paired with a few of the 300 external microphone kits remind me of a transporter for <a href=\"\/konftel-300wx-us\">important people with the external microphones<\/a> being the escort ships for its safety and security.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85233\" src=\"\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-3.png\" alt=\"Badly Photoshopped VoIP Phones as Spaceships 3\" width=\"720\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-3.png 720w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-3-150x103.png 150w, https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/files\/2014\/05\/Badly-Photoshopped-VoIP-Phones-as-Spaceships-3-300x206.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><br \/>\nI mentioned my idea of VoIP phones as spaceships to one of the guys who works on the design side here at VoIP Supply and by the time I got back to my desk he had sent me this image of a FOSCAM IP camera as a fighter spaceship in mid battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I first started at VoIP Supply in 2008 I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time selling, researching, writing about and testing VoIP phones. On the side I&#8217;ve also spent a little bit of time \u201cunorthodoxly testing\u201d VoIP phones by using them as shot-puts, discuses, for archery practice and hockey shot accuracy to name a few. 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