Which SIP telephone is better for Asterisk

Asterisk Asterisk General
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Hi all!

Which sip telephone do you recommend for Asterisk?

This is what a need:

  1. Cheap.
  2. Nice.
  3. Full compatible.

mmm… o better say, what telephone do you use?

Thanks!

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I use Polycom IP320 at my office and it works great. Sound quality is very good. It is $92.00

At my house I use an Aastra480i CT with extra cordless hand set. It’s much more expensive, but i really like the cordless option. It is $272.

both are very good IMO

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Thanks!

And Linksys ?? Anybody?

4

HI
we are using Linksys SPA941 Ip PHone & Cisco 7940. Bothe are excllent with its features & config work, well with Asterisk.

Amity

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[quote=“sadzas”]This is what a need:

  1. Cheap.
  2. Nice.
  3. Full compatible.[/quote]
    AFAIC, there is no such a thing as described above mainly because cheap equates to lemons and lemons mean ugly, poor quality, non-functions, etc.

For asterisk, basically any inexpensive/expensive 100% SIP compliant devices will work. The extensions on my asterisk system are based on Linksys PAP2v1/PAP2v2/WRTP54G, DLink DVG-1120/1402S, Uniden UIP1869V, and some no brand name SIP devices with cordless phones. The audio quality is as good as the quality of the cordless phone used.

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Grandstream are great, but may be not cheap.
I got couple of phones from Farsee - 30 - 40$ but then you should add transport, money for transferring money - I used WU…
They working great. Cons - no warranty - meaning it is not serious to send phone to China for repair. Non of phones need repair - but…
For quantities - they offer discounts also.

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I have use the Aastra range of phone extensively and find them to be very good quality.

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We use Snom phones and we are happy with them.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

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we switched for linksys spa942 to Aastra 9133i and found great improvement… mostly no confusing keys that change function depending call state and the most of all is the sound quality/gain, you have much more control on the volume.

Not to mention many team member had headsets with our old Nortstar phones those have RJ9 plug and the linksys use a 1/32 (i think) jack.
Aastra phones gave us the capabilities to save on using the previous headsets ($150 each!) so even if the Aastra costed us $10 more we save a bunch on headsets…
All of my users (currently 15) are pleased with Aastra and they were the ones that indicated the volume control/gain is much better than previous…

I must say that the Linksys have good sound too, but only misses the gain…

Serge