[Asterisk-biz] Lowered Prices on Sipura SPA-2000 and SPA-1001 and more

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Cory Andrews wrote:
> Francois - I think you are going to see a lot of new product offerings 
> in 2005 from a variety of vendors.  I have not had the opportunity to 
> play with the GXP-2000 too much yet, availability is still an issue.  I 
> am certain Grandstream is doing everything than can in terms of 
> production, we have a mountain of these pre-sold, we begain marketing 
> the unit for Grandstream months ago, we did not anticipate the supply 
> problems, nor did Grandstream I assume.  We are getting a small 
> allotment of them weekly and are fulfilling backorders in chronological 
> order.
> 
> For what it is, the GXP-2000 is a good value.  I think they had an 
> obvious target in mind in terms of MSRP and did their best to offer the 
> best feature set they could at that price point.
> The Sipura 841 I would consider mainly for residential or small/home 
> office use.  Again, we're dealing with a sub $100 unit here.  For what 
> it is, the SPA-841 is also an excellent value considering the other 
> players on the field.  There have been a few issues with the unit that 
> have been thoroughly documented on this listserv.  Sipura is proactively 
> addressing these issues as well.  This is far and away the most popular, 
> sub $100 IP phone that we sell.
> 
> Some other units that are value priced that you may want to evaluate 
> include.
> 
> ArtDio IPF-2000 - 
> http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?cPath=95_105&products_id=262
> 
> ArtDio IPF-3000 -
> http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?cPath=95_106&products_id=279
> 
> and of course the Polycom SoundPoint IP300 and IP500, these seem to be 
> the best Cisco alternative at a low price point, for commercial 
> environments or call center applications.  The Aastra 480i is also a 
> very nice phone, but you're getting what you're paying for it is a bit 
> more expensive.
> 
> One other thing worth mentioning, I am not saying it is going to happen, 
> but I would not be surprised in the least to see some Linkys branded, 
> Cisco developed IP phones coming down the pipe.  With the success of the 
> Linksys PAP2-NA, I would have to believe the R&D folks at Linksys have a 
> mind to bring some phones to market as well.  That could be 
> interesting.  I recently met with some folks from Linksys and I asked 
> them about that possibility, but I don't have any more information to 
> offer on the subject at present.
> There are also a wide variety of very nice traditional analog phones 
> that can be bundled with an ATA to IP enable them.  I have an Aastra 392 
> sitting on my desk right here next to meet, it is a terrific phone.  It 
> is tied into a Linksys WRT54GP2-NA wireless broadband/voip router, which 
> is in turn registered with our Asterisk production server that serves 
> our office.  I also have a nice little WIFI VOIP phone I keep in my 
> livingroom which is also connected through the wireless, the phone is 
> based on a Broadcom spec, although the model I have does not support 
> STUN or NAT, so it is a little limited there.  Works well other than that.
> 
> I'm off topic now, I will strive to share any information on upcoming 
> vendor releases whenever I get it.  For now, the most recent ones are
> 
> Zultys has several new variations of the ZIP2 phone coming to market 
> shortly.
> 
> Uniden has a pretty cool looking new offering called the UIP1868m which 
> is a 5.8GHz Digital VoIP Telephone with a base station you can add 
> wireless handsets to.
> 
> Broadcom has a new WIFI phone reference design, if someone does not have 
> them OEM an offering with this soon perhaps we will do it!  
> http://www.broadcom.com/collateral/pb/91160-PB01-R.pdf

I know, I have been talking about that design for six months!  When is 
someone going to make something out of it?  The new phone from that 
Korean manufacturer looks close, but I don't know if they are it. 
What's the deal with the phone you have now?


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Kristian Kielhofner