Polycom VVX 501 IP Telephone (No PSU)

Performance business media phones that deliver best-in-class desktop productivity and unified communications for busy professionals.

The Polycom® VVX® 500 Series performance business media phones unify superior voice capabilities and applications into a simple-to-use, yet high-performance unified communications (UC) solution. It is the ideal, all-in-one knowledge worker productivity tool, built to integrate seamlessly into a wide range of UC environments.

workers who need a powerful, expandable office phone that keeps up with their multitasking and schedule-juggling. Building on the behavior common to mobile phones, the multi touch, gesture-based user interface of the Polycom VVX 500 makes navigation intuitive and easy.

Maximize Productivity

Designed for a broad range of environments from small and medium businesses to large enterprises, the Polycom VVX 500 Series performance business media phone improves productivity by complementing the workplace applications on the user’s computer. Users benefit from such capabilities as viewing their Outlook calendar on the phone and receiving meeting reminders while still having access to their corporate directory—all while waiting for their PCs to boot. Users can also extend their PC desktop to include the Polycom VVX 500 Series screen, helping to enable simplified interactions and dialing using their PC’s mouse and keyboard. Training and multipoint communication applications are complemented by the Polycom VVX 500 Series video playback capability for streaming content.

Highly Customisable and Expandable

The Polycom VVX 500 Series provides personalized information at a glance, through builtin Web applications and even a digital photo frame. Polycom’s “My Info Portal” serves up stocks, news, sports, weather and other streamed content directly to the phone screen. The Polycom VVX 500 Series is ready for future expansion modules and accessories for applications such as videoconferencing and even wireless networking.

Benefits

• Improves knowledgeworker productivity
• Reduces training time through superior calling features in a sleek design and simple-to-use phone
• Cuts telephony administration and maintenance costs
• Leverages previous IT infrastructure investments
• Easy to deploy, administer, upgrade and maintain
• Delivers easy integration with third-party UC and productivity applications

Product Specifications

User Interface Features

• Gesture-based, multitouch-capable, capacitive touch-screen
• 3.5-in TFT LCD display at QVGA (320 x 240 pixel) resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio
• Screensaver and digital picture frame mode
• On-screen virtual keyboard
• Voicemail and videomail support
• Dual USB ports (2.0 compliant) for media and storage applications
• WebKit-based browser
• Adjustable base height
• Unicode UTF-8 character support. Multilingual user interface including Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English (Canada/ US/UK), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish

Audio Features

• Polycom® HD Voice™ technology delivers lifelike voice quality for each audio path handset, the hands-free speakerphone and the optional headset
• Voice activity detection
• Comfort noise generation
• DTMF tone generation (RFC 2833 and in-band)
• Low-delay audio packet transmission
• Adaptive jitter buffers
• Packet loss concealment
• Individual volume settings with visual feedback for each audio path
• Polycom® Acoustic Clarity™ technology, providing full-duplex conversations, acoustic echo cancellation and background noise suppression

Headset and Handset Compatibility

• Dedicated RJ-11 headset port
• Hearing aid compatibility to ITU-T P.370 and TIA
• Compatible with commercially available TTY adapter equipment
• Supports compatible USB headsets
• Hearing aid compatible handset for magnetic coupling to hearing aids

Call Handling Features

• 12 lines (registrations)
• Up to 24 simultaneous calls
• Shared call/bridged line appearance
• Flexible line appearance (1 or more line keys can be assigned for each line extension)
• Distinctive incoming call treatment/ call waiting
• Call timer and call waiting
• Call transfer, hold, divert (forward), pickup
• Called, calling, connected party information
• Local 3-way audio conferencing
• 1-touch speed dial, redial
• Remote missed call notification
• Do not disturb function
• Electronic hook switch capable
• Local configurable digit map/dial plan

Dimensions and Weight

• 11.46 x 7.9 x 3.82 in (29.1 x 20 x 9.7 cm)
• 3.1 lbs (1.4 kg)