[asterisk-users] ip phone suggestion for Asia?

[d tbsky]

hi Joe:
  thanks for your great opinion. we will buy spares of course. our new
office needs about 150 phone.we use alcatel before. but want to
change to asterisk now for better future.
  since aastra is not sale to asia (that's sad, aastra boss seems born
at taiwan). i will choose snom or grandstream. polycom seems really
expensive,
i saw someone say their cheap model has no hardware "transfer" key. so
 i think i need to pay much more to get what i want in polycom.

Regards,
tbskyd

2007/12/20, Joe <muddyrunner at gmail.com>:
> You get what you pay for.
>
> Snoms are good phones. Grandstreams are also good. I hear Snoms are easier
> to get around NAT and the seem like higher quality construction.
> Grandstreams are great for cheap and easy set-ups. I remember one guy
> telling me he buy up a case and if anything goes wrong with a unit he has a
> couple spares to go in its place.
>
> Over all... if you're looking for setting up office phones, Snom, Polycom,
> and Aastra look/feel nice.
> If you're looking to set up small offices or call centers on the cheap,
> Grandstreams are OK.
>
>  I personally like Grandstream for home use, but I use Polycom for work, and
> I hear good things about Snom.
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2007 12:06 AM, d tbsky <tbskyd at gmail.com > wrote:
> > hi Joel:
> >
> >  thanks a lot for your reply. i forgot snom :)
> >  i wrote a snom employ found in this email list, but got no reply.
> >  i saw there are huge complain about grandstream firmware this year.
> > grandstream seems response and solve some of them. i wonder if their
> > product is ok now.
> >  i don't know the situation of snom, will they response to user's request?
> >  thanks again for your kindly help!!
> >
> > Regards,
> > tbskyd
> >
> >
> >
> > 2007/12/20, Joel Hill <jhill at asteriskit.com.au>:
> >
> >
> >
> > >         Hi tbskyd,
> > >
> > > We have found that the Grandstream's are not that great a phone. One of
> > > our best sellers is the Snom range and I know that the Australian
> > > supplier spends half his time in Hong Kong so you shouldn't have any
> > > problems getting so over there. They are a little more expensive than
> > > the Grandstream's but cheaper than the Polycoms around that Aastra price
> > > range.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Joel.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 12:33 +0800, d tbsky wrote:
> > > > Hi:
> > > >    i am surveying ip phones for our company. we will use them with
> asterisk.
> > > >    we have office in taiwan, hong kong,singapore and china.
> > > >    cisco and polycom are too expensive for us.
> > > >    we try several china brand ip phones. they are all cheap and
> > > > some of them have good quality. but most of them won't offer future
> firmware
> > > > support, which we think it's important for ip phones.
> > > >    searching in the mail list, we found aastra is good, but they don't
> sale to
> > > > asia. grandstream looks good also.there are many grandstream users in
> the list,
> > > > can someone share any good or bad experience about grandstream today?
> > > >    if there are other good choice, please tell us!!
> > > >    thanks a lot for your help!!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > tbskyd
> > > >
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