[asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones

[Michael]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:27:29 you wrote:
> Michael wrote:
> > My experience with Grandstream is that are one of the better 'cheap'
> > ones, but cheap non the less.
>
> I am yet to run into a worse IP phone than the Grandstreams - although
> having said that, I should say that I've always steered clear of most of
> the Chinese "no-name" brand phones.  They're unstable, temperamental and
> upgrading the firmware is a crapshoot half the time since you never know
> what new bugs will be introduced and quite often you can't downgrade the
> firmware if you don't like the newer firmware.

+1

I STRONGLY recommend to the O.P. that whatever they do, whatever path they 
decide to take, that they *only* buy one or two units to test, and test them 
fully, until they are absolutely sure the item is not a POS.

Nothing worse then being stuck with 30x POS.