When it comes to conference phones, there is something for everyone. On some level, almost every company needs one and with all the options that are out there, it can sometimes be difficult deciding what conference phone will be the best fit for your conference room.

We can all agree that the most important thing to consider when choosing a conference phone is how well the party on the other line can hear you, and your team. It can be unprofessional if your client on the other end of the phone call has to keep asking to repeat something you said. This alone can set the wrong tone for your call and can have an impact on your business. And while some conference phone mics can go a long way when it comes to picking up voices at a distance, sometimes you just need more.

Imagine yourself in a huge conference room with 75 other people and you are about to call a client to potentially close a massive deal. One conference phone in the center of this room may not be enough to capture everyone’s voice! So what is the solution? Well, there are many different things that you can do to increase your conference phones range, but one option (the most logical thing to do) is to add more mics!

Let’s take the VTech VCS752 for example. This high-end conference phone actually comes equipped with two, that’s right, TWO wireless microphones that you can use to extend its normal range!

These two wireless mics actually charge off of the actual conference phone in their own little charging cradles and when fully charged, will give you 12 hours of talk time! These microphones are great, but they are small.

When I first saw them, I thought to myself “What if they get lost? With so many people coming in and out of the conference room, they are sure to be misplaced.” But then, VTech came through once more!

The VCS752 is equipped to handle such a situation with a Microphone Locater option, and it’s easy to use!

How to Locate Your Wireless Mics for the VTech VCS752

If you have a scheduled conference call and are missing one, or both of these microphones simply press MENU and then highlight and select STATUS. Once you bring up the status menu, highlight and select Wireless microphone. This will bring up the wireless microphone menu and you see an option to select Locate.

After selecting locate, your wireless microphones will begin to ring, making it simple to find them. After all, they are probably right in front of you, hiding under a stack of paper or behind a water bottle.

Once you have located your wireless mics, you can press CANCEL/Back right on the conference phone to stop the ringing, or they will stop on their own after 30 seconds. Also, placing them back in their charging cradles or hitting MUTE ALL on the wireless mic will stop the location tone.

So, if you are having trouble being heard in your conference room, and you are looking for an easy solution, give the VTech VCS752 a try! Do you already use the VCS752? How do you like it? Let us know!

There comes a time in everyone’s life where we have to say goodbye. Whether it’s saying goodbye to the car you’ve been driving for 10 years, the leftover pizza you have been saving in your fridge for a week, or even sometimes it can be time to say goodbye to your desk phone!

But saying goodbye doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. Maybe you’re saying goodbye because you are getting into your first brand new car! Or maybe you are ordering a new pizza from your favorite pizza joint! Or maybe, just maybe, you are upgrading your desk phone to something more modern and more user-friendly!

I would be lying if I said I didn’t want to finish this blog writing about all of the wonderful and magical things that come with ordering a hot and fresh pizza, but until someone invents pizza over Internet Protocol or PoIP, we have to stick to talking about getting a new desk phone.

There are many reasons why you might be ditching your current desk phone, but the better question is what happens to the desk phone once it’s off your desk? I don’t think there is IP phone heaven? So, where do they go?

Most of the time they can be passed down to other employees and sometimes they can even be sold! Much like VoIP Supply’s Reclaim Buy-Back Program, where we buy your gently used VoIP phones so you can save on something new.

No matter what the case may be, one thing is for sure – before an old phone gets sent to “the farm” it must be reset back to its factory default settings, which leads us to today’s easy How-To lesson.

How-To Restore Factory Default Settings on the Grandstream GXP2130

Let’s use the Grandstream GXP2130 as an example of how easy it can be to reset your phone back to default so it can brighten someone else’s day.

All you have to do is press the MENU button. Once you are in the phone’s menu, scroll down using the Down arrow key and select System. From there, you will then select Operations – Factory Reset.

Once you hit this, a warning window will pop up to make sure this is really what you want to do. This is because once you reset the phone….there is no going back.

Press the Yes softkey to confirm, and then the phone will begin to reboot. If by chance (when you are face-to-face with the warning window) you begin to have second thoughts, simply hit the No softkey instead.

That’s really all it takes to wipe the phone clean, but please remember that restoring the factory default settings will delete all configurations made to the phone, so it might be a good idea to backup your settings before you do so.

Once everything is said and done, it will be time to say goodbye. But hopefully, just as fast as it took you to bring back those factory defaults, you will be saying hello to your new desk phone.

Are you looking to upgrade your office phones? What are you using now? What are you interested in? Or more importantly, what is your favorite kind of pizza?