<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>you can also run a SIP client on an Android device, or even on an Apple device :)</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Also there are SIP-to-Analog adapters: for example,</span> Cisco SPA2102 costs around $60, and it supports 2 analog phones.</div><div><br></div><div>the cheapest hardware SIP phone that I can find (Central Europe) is FRITZ!Fon MT-D, which is about $80 a piece.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Todd Bailey
<toddb@toddbailey.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 4, 2012 6:42 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Fs compatible phones?<br> </font> </div> <br>
OK, No Cisco phones even though the feature set on the 7960 is rather<br>impressive.<br><br>Using a pc for a phone is an option and the 3cx does pretty much every<br>thing I'm looking for. But, I'd like to avoid having a pc/laptop<br>running a phone app 24x7 as it's a bit hard on the power bill.<br>However is there a way to run twinkle or linphone on the FS server? So<br>far I get error messages stating that the ports are already in use. <br><br>Meanwhile I'll refocus on polycom ip phones off ebay.<br><br><br><br>On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 19:00 +1200, Campbell Steven wrote:<br>> I would strongly suggest the old Cisco is a bad choice, I have alot of<br>> uptime with those handsets on alternative platforms, I say alternative<br>> as really they are just designed to work with Call Manager. If you had<br>> to pick from the bunch you suggested I would probably pick the<br>> SPA-942, not that it's a great phone but it's the best of
that average<br>> lot. The reasons I would pick it:<br>> <br>> -Full web UI that you can configure pretty much everything without<br>> having to resort to provisioning straight up<br>> -BLF support (useful to have and the Cisco 7960 doesn't, under SIP anyway)<br>> -Ability to centrally provision if you so desire in the future<br>> -Can register 4 SIP accounts<br>> -Can do Broadsoft SLA<br>> -802.3af PoE (unlike the 7960 which is pre-standard)<br>> <br>> Normally I'd be pushing Polycom as well, but the 501 was getting old<br>> when the 942 brand new...<br>> <br>> Campbell<br>> <br>> On 4 July 2012 18:01, Todd Bailey <<a ymailto="mailto:toddb@toddbailey.net" href="mailto:toddb@toddbailey.net">toddb@toddbailey.net</a>> wrote:<br>> > I'm going to purchase a Cisco 7960 from ebay for under $50 unless<br>> > someone can tell me this is a bad idea. I watched several Utube videos<br>>
> where is was working on Asterisk. With the volumns of documentation and<br>> > how to videos I think this is the better choice,<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 10:13 -0700, Todd Bailey wrote:<br>> >> Hi All,<br>> >><br>> >> New to this tech and a bit confused on what to buy/features etc.<br>> >><br>> >> I'm looking for a basic desk phone, perhaps with a few speed dial and<br>> >> maybe gee-wiz buttons. I found this one with a decent price 3Com NBX<br>> >> 1102 but the ad states Requires R4.X system software or greater. Not<br>> >> sure what this is nor do I need to?<br>> >><br>> >> If I buy "any" digital phone that has a rj-45 ethernet jack does that<br>> >> automatically mean it's compatible?<br>> >><br>> >><br>> >> other models in my price/feature range<br>>
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