How To Use Your Polycom Vvx 1500; Video Calls Vs. Voice Only Calls; To Turn Video On/Off; Answering The Phone - Polycom VVX 1500 Quick Reference Manual

How to Use your Polycom VVX 1500

Video Calls vs. Voice only calls

If you call a video phone or video bridge you will automatically begin sending video. The top left icon will be a video
camera.

To Turn Video on/off

• Be sure your privacy shudder is open or closed based on your preference.
Also you can set the phone software:
• Press the Video button to the Right of the 3 button. Press the softkey labeled Stop Video/Start Video
If you call a voice only phone then no video will be sent. The top left icon will be a video camera with a slash.

Answering the Phone

To Answer a call:
• Pick up the handset
• If you have a headset, press the headset, press the
headset button.
If you prefer speakerphone, press the screen in the
middle to answer the call.
To Answer a second call:
• While on a call, a second call is seen on the screen
and you hear one call waiting beep. Press the center
of the screen to answer.
OR
• If the call has minimized, Press on the screen
(bottom left) to highlight that incoming call
• Then press the softkey labeled answer
• This will put the first call on hold automatically.
To go back to the first call
• Press on the screen (bottom left) to highlight that
call,
Then press the softkey labeled RESUME
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Polycom VVX 1500
To put a call on Speaker Phone:
• Press SP Phone
To mute a call, press the mute button
• The display will show a microphone with an X through
it and the indicator light will turn red.

To put a Call on Hold

• Press the hard key on the phone labeled HOLD or
the soft key on your screen that is labeled HOLD
that you see when you are on a call (there are 2
hold buttons – either button is OK).
To Pick up from hold, do not pick up the handset
• Press RESUME
Use Speakerphone or pick up the handset
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