[Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

It's funny, but I found it more challening to buy a second hand car than to
buy phones.

PaulH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mustardman29" <mustardman29 at hotmail.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:57 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use


>
>
> I have been struggling with this issue for about a year now.  There were
> just too many IP phones to choose from at all sorts of price points and
not
> enough information about any of them.  Now I am looking at the situation
> again and if anything it has gotten worse.  There are even more phones and
> all sorts of opinions.  For every person that says phone x is great there
is
> someone else complaining about it.
>
> I ended up buying a Grandstream GXP2000 and an Aastra 9133i to test so I
> pretty much know what those two phones are about.  Lot's of people talking
> about Polycom phones but they still seem to have their problems and since
> they don't officially support Asterisk I have my concerns.  I really don't
> want to have to keep buying phones to find out for myself as it get's
> expensive real fast.
>
> Is there any unbiased comparison of various phones and features anywhere.
> If someone wrote a book I'd buy it but it would probably be obsolete
before
> it was published with the rate of new IP phone introductions and firmware
> revisons.  I hear some people praising the GXP2000 phones and I gotta
wonder
> what they are smokin (regardless of firmware revison) so I just don't know
> who to believe anymore.
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