[Asterisk-Users] best hardphone for Asterisk?

[Michael Graves]

I own one of these. It's a great phone overall. It's the only thing I've tried that was able to display a much beloved Polycom IP600. The only thing to be aware of is that the phone only supports 
two active calls at a time, and only one G.729a coded call at a time.

Not certain where you're getting your numbers.  The 480 CTi can be found for $279 with one remote handset included. A second remote handset is $99.

I also have a Panasonic KXTG-4000 KSU system, which remains in service just because my wife is familiar with its use. Before the 480 CTi I used the Panasonic KSU and a pair of dual 
FXS ATAs to connect to my Asterisk server. The Aastra remote handsets are a little more fiddly to use. Occasionally some functions require multiple button pushes whereas the Panasonic 
handsets have more edicated function buttons. 

Life's too short to suffer through using a cheap phone.

Michael

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 23:48:37 -0400 (EDT), Doug Crompton wrote:

>Iain,

> Thanks for the repsonse but you are kidding me right? From what I can see
>if I bought this phone and two remotes my outlay would be close to $800
>US. This is NOT a home device unless you have nothing better to do with
>your money!

>You can buy a lot of single line wireless phones and FXS devices for that
>amount!

>Doug

>On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Iain Barker wrote:

>> Doug,
>>
>> What you are describing sounds like the Aastra 480-CT, a base Ethernet/SIP screenphone supporting multiple wireless handsets [but as this is a non-commercial list I won't go into more 
detail here, google for the above model number if you're interested in more info.]
>>
>> - Iain
>>
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>> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:08:48 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: Doug Crompton <doug at crompton.com>
>> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] best hardphone for Asterisk?
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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>> Still awfully pricey for home use and the styling is not there for a
>> bedroom or many other areas of a modern home. What we need is a wireless
>> sip phone modeled like the panasonic or uniden which allow multiple
>> extension off of one base. The base would connect to the internet. The
>> other problem is many of these phones require power, so even if you have
>> backup for your central system the phone still needs to be on it. Power
>> over ethernet would help.
>>
>> Doug
>>


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