[Asterisk-Users] Re: What business IP phone to use

[andrew matthews]

maybe you didn't want suggestions, but too bad :))))).

My favorite up until recently was the polycom 501 and I found it was
good quality and clear calls and priced well. but the production of te
phone is slowing down so I bought a few linksys    spa941. and iVll
tell you I have a new  favorite phone. its slick, provisioning is a
breeeze and the call quality with built in qos is fantastic.

I wasn't a big fan of grandstream products they seem to be cheaply
made and i've had a few fail. but they do work.

talking about my biased opinion I don't have onee, i'm a hobby
programmer who works for a company that resells voip services and we
use polycom and linksys. I just provide support for all phones so I
kow how things work and don't work.

I hope this helps. thanks

andrew

On 2/21/06, mustardman29 <mustardman29 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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