First off, this is a good-looking device. It’s similar in design to some of the phones in Polycom’s Soundpoint series, except for a few differences that have big aesthetic impacts. For example, the centerpiece is coated in a glossy, black plastic that matches the phone's reflective LCD screen. Two thick, vertical bands of silver plastic border and accentuate this main focus area. These design tweaks make the VVX 500 different enough so that it feels like an exciting new product, but not so different that it’s completely disjointed from other Polycoms.
The touchscreen itself is one of the nicest touchscreen interfaces we’ve used on a desktop phone to date. I feel like I keep saying this again and again to the point where it has started to lose all its meaning, but you can’t really blame me for new products that are simply doing things better. The touchscreen is incredibly responsive compared to what the competition is offering and is multitouch capable and gesture-based, which allows me to do things like type in SIP addresses quickly on the on-screen virtual keyboard, and freely scroll around a webpage using just a finger.
This phone won’t take up much desk real estate, being only slightly bigger than the Polycom Soundpoint IP 335, but its main highlight, the 3.5-inch TFT LCD touchscreen, allows users to do much more in the available space. More on this later.The VVX 500 has a standard set of hard keys: a numpad with round buttons that are large and satisfying to use, buttons to control volume, activate headset, speaker, and mute, and finally, a button that takes users to the main ‘Home’ screen on the touchscreen display.
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First off, this is a good-looking device. It’s similar in design to some of the phones in Polycom’s Soundpoint series, except for a few differences that have big aesthetic impacts. For example, the centerpiece is coated in a glossy, black plastic that matches the phone's reflective LCD screen. Two thick, vertical bands of silver plastic border and accentuate this main focus area. These design tweaks make the VVX 500 different enough so that it feels like an exciting new product, but not so different that it’s completely disjointed from other Polycoms.
The touchscreen itself is one of the nicest touchscreen interfaces we’ve used on a desktop phone to date. I feel like I keep saying this again and again to the point where it has started to lose all its meaning, but you can’t really blame me for new products that are simply doing things better. The touchscreen is incredibly responsive compared to what the competition is offering and is multitouch capable and gesture-based, which allows me to do things like type in SIP addresses quickly on the on-screen virtual keyboard, and freely scroll around a webpage using just a finger.
This phone won’t take up much desk real estate, being only slightly bigger than the Polycom Soundpoint IP 335, but its main highlight, the 3.5-inch TFT LCD touchscreen, allows users to do much more in the available space. More on this later.The VVX 500 has a standard set of hard keys: a numpad with round buttons that are large and satisfying to use, buttons to control volume, activate headset, speaker, and mute, and finally, a button that takes users to the main ‘Home’ screen on the touchscreen display.
