Grandstream GXV3275 Review

hi I'm David Simmons and this is a
review of the granstream g XV 3275
android desk phone this is a fully
digital phone you can't use it with a
regular Potts line
you do need a VoIP service or an IP PBX
to use it he runs Android so it's a lot
like having an Android tablet with a
handset and stand this phone was
released just about a week ago and I
noticed there weren't many useful
informative reviews the few reviews I
found were for people who are wanting to
sell me a phone and didn't go into great
detail or show the phone in action I
know cell phones so we're gonna take a
look at the good the bad and the ugly
the phone itself comes with the base
unit a handset a wall mount and ethernet
cord a handset cord a power adapter a
cleaning cloth for the screen and
various documentation including I kid
you not
your very own printed copy of the
renewed general public license the build
quality is pretty decent for what it is
does have a little bit of the cheap
plastic feel like everything else these
days you get from companies not named
after a fruit I do find that the handset
cradle is a bit awkward there's not
quite enough clearance below the handset
for the wire so sometimes sometimes it's
hard to get the handset back into the
cradle properly I do have one dead pixel
on the LCD here but I guess I can live
with that so when you plug the phone in
here at boots up in about one minute and
seven seconds one of the most important
features of this fine device is the
ability to make phone calls so let's
check that out
whenever you lift the handset the phone
immediately switches for the phone app
you know you put it back and it hangs up
switches back to the old app you can
also easily make calls with the
speakerphone just being the phone icon
here you hear the dial tone we can make
a sample phone call here
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one nice feature here is the option to
record phone calls which seems to work
quite well and it works without beeping
the party on the other end so start
recording and we're recording the call
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speakerphone seems to be pretty good the
handset has very good quality
unfortunately it's so good that the
other party can hear me breathing unless
I consciously move the microphone about
an inch away from my mouth so keep that
in mind sure to give one of these phones
there's also support for a Bluetooth
headset and it works about like you
would expect one of the compelling
features of this phone is that is
actually an Android tablet in addition
to being a simple desk phone the
hardware isn't as powerful as a modern
Android phone or tablet nor as the
software quite as polished I don't buy
one of these expecting it to be as slick
as a nexus he runs a customized version
of Android 4.2 and comes with an app
called GS market here for downloading
more apps from Grant stream and as you
can see one of the apps you can download
is the actual Google Play app and when
you download that then you can download
everything else from from Google you can
see that over here yet Play Store Google
is actually very protective of their
Google Play suite of apps and usually
require devices to meet certain
standards before license is granted so I
am kind of surprised to see Google Play
available as a download from granstream
so let's see how Google Hangouts works
here
yeah start a video call with myself what
and there you can see me from the other
end of the Hangout it mostly works like
you would expect but your video as seen
by the other party is pretty bad and a
bit laggy it's a it's a small cheap
camera and the device does seem a touch
underpowered we're keeping up with the
the video encoding I noticed a bit of
flakiness when trying to enable a
Bluetooth headset earlier when I
switched over to Bluetooth the incoming
audio became garbled and then I switched
back to speaker and the incoming audio
fix itself but played through the
Bluetooth headset you can imagine that
so also whatever you do don't lift the
the handset to talk and hangouts because
the moment you do that you're not gonna
be able talking hangouts it's gonna go
to the phone app as such and you'll have
to go back to the hangouts without being
able talking on the man set I've come to
the conclusion this phone is it really
meant to run arbitrary Android
communication apps very well if you just
think the core features in the phone
you'll probably be okay so how much
power does this use when you have it
plugged in all day I put a kilowatt
meter on it I found that when the
screens turned off when it's in sleep
uses about 3.1 watts when the screen is
on it uses 6.0 watts and if you have the
fancy screensaver with the photo
animation going it'll actually use up to
7.2 watts now I have noticed a few other
problems with the phone yesterday after
a call I the phone wasn't able to go
back to sleep as if some sort of screen
way clock was in effect so when I
noticed this a few hours later I lifted
the handset put it back and then the
phone was able to go to sleep again the
screen seems to pick up fingerprints
very easily I guess that's why they
provided the cleaning cloth although I
like the phone and think it will be a
great replacement for the
dumb phone that I have been using just
can't expect it to be a select Nexus
style Android super phone well I hope
this review was useful and thanks for
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