I have been struggling with this issue for about a year now. There were just too many IP phones to choose from at all sorts of price points and not enough information about any of them. Now I am looking at the situation again and if anything it has gotten worse. There are even more phones and all sorts of opinions. For every person that says phone x is great there is someone else complaining about it.
I ended up buying a Grandstream GXP2000 and an Aastra 9133i to test so I pretty much know what those two phones are about. Lot's of people talking about Polycom phones but they still seem to have their problems and since they don't officially support Asterisk I have my concerns. I really don't want to have to keep buying phones to find out for myself as it get's expensive real fast. Is there any unbiased comparison of various phones and features anywhere. If someone wrote a book I'd buy it but it would probably be obsolete before it was published with the rate of new IP phone introductions and firmware revisons. I hear some people praising the GXP2000 phones and I gotta wonder what they are smokin (regardless of firmware revison) so I just don't know who to believe anymore. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
