[Asterisk-Users] USB handset options for softphones

[Martin Joseph]

On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Michael Graves wrote:

> With few exceptions a USB phone is just and audio device to the host 
> PC. Most will work with any soft phone. The Phoenix Duet and MV900 
> that I have used both worked equally well with
> Asterisk, Sip Phone/Gizmo, FWD, Firefly and Skype.
>
> There are some "Skype Certified" hardware devices appearing. These 
> usually have buttons that mimic the software buttons on the Skype 
> client. In doing that they use the Skype API directly.
> They may work as normal handsets with other soft phones, but I've 
> never tried this.
>
The above is sort of misleading information in my opinion.

It's true that any of the USB phones can function as audio devices, but 
if you expect the KEYPAD on the device to work (notice the devices he 
mentions have none), the softphone needs to support that specifically.

Marty