[Asterisk-Users] Recommendations on a WiFi phone for *?

Ivan Meic asterisk-user at vox-mundi.net
Wed Jan 11 00:15:07 MST 2006


>> Has anyone tried out Hitachi IPC-5000 ?
>> It looks nice and it's a bit exensive, but I would still like to hear
>> how does it behave around Asterisk.
>>
>
>I used one for about 6 months. In general its well behaved with
>Asterisk. It is a little tedious to get setup, but then you only need
>to doit once. My issue with it were simple. The volume level was always
>too low. Also, in order for a call to be sustained while moving between
>access points they had to have the same SSID and be on the same
>channel. That's less than ideal. Also, it useful range from the AP was
>limited.

Can Hitachi do any "extra" features like Call Hold, Xfer, BlndXfer,
Conference maybe ?
My best choice so far (the only phone I've tested that actually works) is
ZyXEL,
but it can not do any of the features mentioned above.

Thanks,
Ivan





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