Customize it: customize your Snom phones

    As electronic gadgets evolved from high-priced exotic to mass-market products, more and more opportunities have emerged to customize them. Even the Chinese clone Casio, which was captivated after the restructuring of the CIS, under the name "American Watch, Montana", had 16 alarm clock melodies, which invariably pleased the owners who listened to these melodies every free minute.


    As soon as the phones had a graphical interface, users began to try to change it. Phones "hacked": downloaded special programs, connected the device to a computer with a special wire and, following intricate instructions, at their own peril and risk, tried to replace the logo on the splash screen. Later, manufacturers themselves began to open such settings, and modern smartphones can be configured beyond recognition without much difficulty. Not surprisingly, office phone makers supported the trend. In this short review, we will tell you what options there are for customizing the interface of Snom phones.

    Since such telephony systems are most often used in large companies, rather than at home for family needs, the most logical change that comes to mind is the branding of the phone interface for a corporate identity. In the simplest case, you can limit yourself to replacing the background image of the wallpaper with a new one that contains the company logo.



    If the images of the icons in the phone menu do not seem obvious or familiar, then you can easily replace them with others. For example, change the icon for accessing the contact list.

    It was:



    It has become:



    Snom phones can be brought into full compliance with the company's brand book, changing not only the icons and logo on the background image, but also the colors of all the elements on the screen, each individually:



    You can even download your own fonts to phones.

    You can assign personal symbols to the contacts in the phone’s notebook, replacing them with the standard “handset” that appears when you select an employee’s name:



    for something more interesting or understandable:



    Because telephony is used not only in offices, but also in enterprises in various industries , then the change in the interface of phones can be dictated not so much by taste preferences as by considerations of practicality. You can customize the entire menu structure by moving rarely used functions deeper or deleting them completely, changing not only the icons of the function keys, but also the actions by clicking on them.

    For example, this might look like a phone interface for working in a hotel office:



    And so you can transform it in accordance with the corporate identity and needs for use at the workplace of an airport employee:



    Hotel rooms do not have to install the most sophisticated models, with large color screens, but even entry-level devices, such as D120, can be configured in accordance with the scenario their use:



    Naturally, to change the interface of the phones, you do not need to pick each one up and tinker with the settings in the device itself, breaking your eyes in a small screen and getting confused in the small buttons. All settings can be done on a regular computer, but without connecting each device with a wire, as they once did with the first mobile phones, but through the web interface. It allows not only editing the configuration of one particular phone, but also “uploading” the firmware at once to many phones of the same model, and then individually adjusting, for example, to display its number in each room of the hotel.

    As you can see, the possibilities of customizing devices are limited only by the imagination and needs of users, and thanks to a detailed manual, understanding this process will not be difficult:service.snom.com/display/wiki/Phone+Customisation .

    What to do if you need to brand not only the contents of the display, but also the appearance of the phone itself? For such cases, Snom offers three so-called customization packages:

    Custom Logo Package . The cheapest branding option “out of the box” - you will receive phones with your logo printed above the display (instead of the Snom logo). The menu will be decorated in a standard color scheme. The minimum order for such a package is 50 phones.



    Custom printing package. In this case, the manufacturer will supply you with phones not only with your logo, but also with other signatures of all the keys (at your discretion). It will be possible to add additional inscriptions and logos in other places on the front panel of the phone. And also you can name the phone models as you want. The minimum order for this package is 1,500 phones.



    Custom Design Package . All of the above + you can order the manufacture of plastic parts of the body and handset of the phone in any other colors. The minimum order for such a package is 3000 phones.


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