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Summary
The VVX310 and VVX410 Polycom VoiP phones are easy to use and solid workhorses for employees in any kind of business. The VVX500 model is a higher-end phone in the line-up and represents the latest in VoIP phone technology. These phones are sharp looking, high-tech and are reflective of Polycom's leadership in the marketplace. This series of Polycom phones will serve businesses well and take advantage of everything business VoIP has to offer.

Features
They come with all of the standard, hardware-driven features you would expect from a Polycom VoIP phone, such as: call forwarding, call transferring, three-way conferencing, do not disturb, directories, and voicemail. All phones come with Polycom's best-in-class speakerphone and HD voice clarity. Additionally, the stand for the Polycom VVX series will allow for 3 different angles.

The VVX410 and 500 have colour screens, which adds to their elegance. The 500 has a touch screen, which resonates well with tablet and smart-phone users. Additionally, the higher-end models allow you to personalise the screen saver and background via a USB port or through the web configuration utility.

Network
The VVX310, 410 and 500 have dual gigabit ports so your phone will not be a bottleneck when passing large files over your network.  

Cool Stuff
With the USB port on the VVX500 you can attach a zip drive and record calls. The display will show you how many hours of recording you have available on the drive. All models allow you to integrate the phone with your computer's mouse and keyboard, allowing for a mouse over and click to dial from your favourites or directory. Additionally it will integrate with your Outlook Exchange calendars, providing you a view of your calendar from your phone, and dialling from the calendar for conference calls.

Polycom also has a "My Info Portal", which allows access to stocks, news, sports, weather and other streamlined content to the phone's screen. Finally the VVX500 has optional cameras that will allow for Desktop Video Conferencing from phone to phone or interact with video conference bridges right from the phone.

Jola
If you are looking for the best hosted telephony bundles on these leading Polycom handsets look to Jola.

Jola, the channel supplier of internet connectivity and hosted voice, has launched three new Premium Broadsoft hosted telephony bundles from £8.20 per month. The bundles include the Polycom VVX handsets listed above and a Premium Broadsoft licence with key features such as such as disaster recovery, hot desking and shared call appearance as standard.

If you are looking to provide Polycom handset hosted telephony bundles to your customers...