I highly recommend Yealink phones. They have variety of choices - from basic to 
video phones. Easy to configure manually via web ui and also supports auto 
provisioning.

Price wise quite affordable. We currently deploy those phones in our asterisk 
projects. From office Pbx to call centers.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:56 AM, "Hiers, Richard" 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I’m new to asterisk, currently working through Asterisk, The Definitive 
> Guide.  I have a couple Grandstream 200 phones and a Polycom 501 to play 
> with.  The Grandstreams were very easy to configure, but the more capable 
> Polycom almost drove me crazy.  There is so much conflicting information on 
> the web about necessary config files and names of those files.  Anyway, all 
> my phones are now working on a basic level, but it occurs to me that once 
> spend a lot of time learning Asterisk, I might then have to spend an equal 
> amount of time figuring out how to configure the phones.  The polycom phone, 
> for example, has very large configuration files with a myriad of options.  
> The manual for this phone alone is over 300 pages.
>  
> So my questions are, what phones do you recommend, are there recommended 
> sources for training on said phones, or in general, what advice do you have 
> for configuring phones the phones themselves?
>  
> And a related question, we currently use 3Com NBX system where everything is 
> configured via a gui, phones and all.  I don’t yet know if I will want to run 
> asterisk with a GUI, but if I do, are there any options for configuring 
> phones through a GUI?
>  
> Thanks much
>  
> Richard Hiers
> Director of IT Services
> Covenant Theological Seminary
> 
>  
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