[Asterisk-Users] Best $300 VoIP phone for asterisk?

[Ira]

At 08:03 AM 6/16/2006, you wrote:
>Can you a call on the cordless and the base-station without any loss 
>of functionality (forwarding, 3-way, etc) on either base-station or cordless?

You can essentially treat the base and handset as 2 separate 
phones.  It's not quite that way as they are the same SIP ID phone so 
some inter-phone things like transfer is odd, but other than that, 
it's a really nice phone.  And don't get sucked into the a base can 
support 4 or 10 handsets, as the system can only support 2 active 
calls or something like that.  You can have 7 calls holding but only 
2 active (off-hook) channels at the same time.  Clarify that, but I 
was originally going to get 1 base and 4 handsets and after talking 
to Aastra I realized I needed 3 bases with their 3 handsets.

And Aastra seems to be actively supporting it, in the 6 months or so 
I've had them there have been 2 significant firmware upgrades.  Make 
sure you put 1.4 on the phones if that's not where they are out of the box.

Ira