[asterisk-users] Voted most stable and easy to use phone?

[Rob Hillis]

They have their ups and downs.  If you live outside the US, localising 
your tones is a pain in the proverbial since you have to define every 
tone by frequency combination and intervals, although I guess you do 
only need to do it once.

One other shortcoming of the 942 is the lack of any usable BLF buttons 
at all.  I'm led to believe that one of the upcoming firmware releases 
will allow you to use the four line buttons as BLF buttons, but since 
you need at least two line buttons in order to be able to transfer a 
call, that means you realistically would only get two BLF keys - not 
many - especially if you're used to the Snoms or Grandstreams (hack, spit)

The 962s are /really/ nice phones, albeit somewhat more expensive.  The 
large colour display is /very/ nice, and button banks for the 962s are 
available and very cheap compared to many other options, even if they do 
look a little cheap.


arkda wrote:
> I'm a huge fan of the Linksys SPA-942s for users. They run around 
> $125, are pretty straightforward to manage via TFTP, and work really 
> well with Asterisk.
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Michael J. Liberatore 
> <mike240se at straightandnarrowinc.org 
> <mailto:mike240se at straightandnarrowinc.org>> wrote:
>
>     A while back i had asked about possible replacements for snom 360
>     phones that were breaking and causing issues and we all discussed
>     the problems we had with the 360s and some suggestions were made
>     but the  new polycom phones had just hit the market and not many
>     people were able to comment on them.
>      
>     Basically i am looking to get some new phones and in the process
>     get rid of the countless number of problems i have had that has
>     always been caused by phones (snom 360's and gxp-2000's).  I would
>     like to get the feedback of the list on the phone voted best for
>     stability, working with *, and ease of use for dumb non tech users.
>      
>     I was thinking of trying one of these new polycom phones that are
>     about $150, but havent gotten any feedback on them yet.
>      
>     Basically i am interested in any phones but snom's, grandstreams,
>     and sipura's/linksys.  mainly polycom's i guess.
>      
>     thanks
>      
>     mike
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