[Freeswitch-users] Looking for some good/cheap desktop phones

[Adam Ford]

I just picked up old model Polycoms.  You can get the IP301's for ~$60-70
new and the IP501s for ~$100 new.  They don't have some of the fancier
features of the new Polycoms, but they carry the same quality and
configurability(with the exception of NAT).

 

-Adam

 

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[mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Yehavi
Bourvine
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Looking for some good/cheap desktop phones

 

>From my experience Polycom and SNOM are expensive but give you what you
need. Polycom is more intutive to the users but more cumbersome for the
manager to deploy; SNOM is somewhat less intuitive to the user but
everything can be set via the WEB interface.

 

If you talk about 4-5 phones, then probably SNOM is the choice. It also
depends about the specific functions you want to use. I our specific
environment (high use of BLF and shared lines) Polycom wins because it
handles these functions just as the user expects.

 

I did not try Aastra so cannot testify. We did test Yealink, Thomson,
Asterphone, SipTip and maybe others I forgot. Cisco also seems good but
Cisco does not supply the required socumentation to make them fully working.

 

                    Regards, __Yehavi:

2010/2/5 Тимур Валишев <tim at novion.ru>

Sure, those phones do not deliver superior usability, but they at
least give the best sound among budget models.


2010/2/5 Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org>:

> And all of those are awful phones.  They don't even make good paper
weights.
>
> You can't have good and cheap in the same sentence when talking about VoIP
phones.  You have to take your pick between quality (good) and price (cheap)
you can't have both at once.
>
> /b
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:36 AM, Тимур Валишев wrote:
>
>> Have a look at Yealink (Skypemate) and Fanvill
>
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