{"id":7795,"date":"2020-02-13T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:19:59","slug":"introduction-to-grandstream-grp-phones-unboxing-first-impressions-and-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/introduction-to-grandstream-grp-phones-unboxing-first-impressions-and-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Grandstream GRP Phones unboxing, first impressions, and tips!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grandstream GRP First Impressions\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvmdVe6Z_GE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I first talked to Grandstream about these GRP phones, this time last year, I was cautiously optimistic. I was hopeful, but it was hard to say if I would like them enough to want to use them, let alone support them. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, we have many avid Grandstream only customers, but when you are working in phone config files; p-codes are something you prefer not to deal with on a day to day basis. There were also issues with Weather widgets, and some bad firmware&#8230; but let&#8217;s let the past be the past!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grandstream promised me, without me even needing to ask: No more P-codes and Dual Boot Firmware. Hence my cautious optimism, if Grandstream could achieve those two things and start with a stable firmware, they could have a great product on their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, here we are! In this video, I give you my honest feedback on the phones as I take them out of the box. As a guy who has handled and configured over one hundred models of VoIP phones in the last 10 years, they left me feeling good about Grandstream in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Spoiler Alert<\/i>, I decided that we wanted to work with Grandstream and Support these phones officially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first talked to Grandstream about these GRP phones, this time last year, I was cautiously optimistic. I was hopeful, but it was hard to say if I would like them enough to want to use them, let alone support them. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, we have many avid Grandstream only customers, but when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}