Different question on recommended phones for Asterisk

Asterisk Asterisk General
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Hi there

I know this question on recommended phones for Asterisk have been asked before, but another criteria I would like to add in would be :

(1) The ones that allow you to push telephony applications onto the phone easily. e.g. , on the Cisco 7970, you can dial in a number and later have an XML-encoded menu pushed to the phone so it has a feature-rich GUI app. I plan to look out for cheaper alternatives than the 7970s

(2) The ease of configuration to make the phone work for Asterisk. e.g. , almost all Cisco phones require you to do a SIP firmware update which is very cumbersome

(3) Are there wireless VOIP phones that you recommend for Asterisk? The only one I have heard of is the Linksys WIP330 which I am not sure works with Asterisk.

I will be using Asterisk 1.4 with FreePBX on an Ubuntu system

Thanks
John

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I am using Grandstream and devices from farseegroup.com.
With FS-G100 I had to make some small modifications, to make it working through routers - it worked perfectly well through switches. I received adeqate support from Farsee group and made modifications.
Both ATA are good and cheap.

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I personally love Polycom and SNOM.

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With the new Snom 370 you can use xml apps and menus and it should be quite simple to configure.

Regards.

Marco Bruni