[asterisk-users] Good comparisons on cheaper VOIP phones

[Rob Hillis]

Michael wrote:
> My experience with Grandstream is that are one of the better 'cheap' ones, but 
> cheap non the less.

I am yet to run into a worse IP phone than the Grandstreams - although
having said that, I should say that I've always steered clear of most of
the Chinese "no-name" brand phones.  They're unstable, temperamental and
upgrading the firmware is a crapshoot half the time since you never know
what new bugs will be introduced and quite often you can't downgrade the
firmware if you don't like the newer firmware.

My suggestion would be to look at the Snom 300 (although they are very
simplistic phones), the Polycom IP330 (I have a feeling the 320s don't
support PoE) or the Linksys phones.  I noted an earlier post saying that
these phones were overpriced and designed to lock you in to Linksys gear
- my experience has been completely different.  The SPA-942 is quite
cheap and integrates nicely with Asterisk.  The SPA-962 is considerably
more expensive - but considering the size of the colour LCD screen,
they're not that badly priced. (as an aside, the button banks for the
SPA-962 are one of the /cheapest/ available!)
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