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That's like asking 'what is the best car in the world and why?' If you need to haul lots of people, you buy a minivan. If you live in the US and need to haul lots of people, you buy an SUV. If you need speed, to buy a motorcycle. If you need.. You need to decide what features are required, desired and how much you can spend on each phone. When I bought handsets, my primary requirement was that it had to be 100% remotely manageable and network booted/configd due to the auto provisioning software I wrote. I stuck to the Polycoms, Cisco, Linksys and Sipura brands. Within each brand will be several phones with distinct feature sets. Just figure out which one is required. My suggestion, find 4 phones you think will work and take them to the customer to choose. On Aug 31, 2007, at 1:11 PM, William Herrera wrote:> I need to quote a client for a job and I was just wondering. > Out of all the IP Phones out there, which one is the best and why? > Thank you all, all opinions will be accepted. > > > William Herrera > LAN/WAN Technical Consultant > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080106/556814ab/attachment.htm
That question cannot be answered as everyone has their own perferences and considerations. That said, I really like Polycom's especially the higher end models. I also like the Aastra 480i CT for a DECT cordless. Michael --Original Message Text--- From: William Herrera Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:11:58 -0400 I need to quote a client for a job and I was just wondering. Out of all the IP Phones out there, which one is the best and why? Thank you all, all opinions will be accepted. William Herrera LAN/WAN Technical Consultant -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com blog.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:mjgraves at pixelpower.onsip.com skype mjgraves fwd 54245 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080106/a5b461be/attachment.htm
Here we go again....
Google is your friend:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Good+IP+phone+site%3Alists.digium.com&btnG=Google+Search
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Subject: [asterisk-users] Which IP Phone is really the best?
I need to quote a client for a job and I was just wondering.
Out of all the IP Phones out there, which one is the best and why?
Thank you all, all opinions will be accepted.
William Herrera
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Wow! That is a good question. I can't believe no one has ever asked that before. Seriously, before letting someone join this mailing list, it should ask them a simple question: When you don't know the answer to something, do you: a) blindly ask hundreds of people with no regard to whether it was recently discussed b) search your favorite search engine for an answer first. We all know what this poster did. I realize my messages may seem rude and obnoxious, but let's face it, I'm just saying what the rest of you are thinking. I learned by reading, reading, and reading. The answer to almost every question is out there, you just have to look. It irritates me when other people don't even try to do research first and just want someone to spoon feed them the information. I wonder how many of those people are being paid for their "knowledge", when in fact, they know nothing and are counting on the community to do their work for them. Anyway, that's enough for my rant for today. I'll leave with one thing: www.google.com - it's amazing what you can find On Aug 31, 2007 12:11 PM, William Herrera <william at lan-solutions.net> wrote:> I need to quote a client for a job and I was just wondering. > > Out of all the IP Phones out there, which one is the best and why? > > Thank you all, all opinions will be accepted. > > > > > > *William Herrera*** > > *LAN/WAN Technical Consultant* > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080106/d8f2a4de/attachment.htm
I like my Aastra 480i a lot. It has buttons with numbers on them. What I am guessing you are really asking is 'what's a really good phone that's really cheap'. PaulH On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:11 -0400, William Herrera wrote:> I need to quote a client for a job and I was just wondering. > > Out of all the IP Phones out there, which one is the best and why? > > Thank you all, all opinions will be accepted. > > > > > > William Herrera > > LAN/WAN Technical Consultant > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Seriously, if you intend on proposing this to a customer it means you are selling your professional services. If you are asking questions like this, how successful do you expect your customer engagement to be? Even if someone recommends the "best" phone for your particular application, you will still have zero competency with it and spend inordinate amounts of learning time and re-work on the customer's time. Your inexperience will show. Customers are demanding and you will get thrown out on your a**. People expect IT to fail from time to time (unfortunately), but they expect 100% availability from their phones. Anything less and you will find yourself with a priority meeting at the client that includes your manager, CEO and their lawyer. Nothing travels faster than a bad reputation. Walk away. Research. Build a lab. Learn. - dbc. From: "William Herrera" <william at lan-solutions.net> Subject: To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>> I need to quote a client for a job and I was just wondering. > > Out of all the IP Phones out there, which one is the best and why? > > Thank you all, all opinions will be accepted. > > William Herrera > LAN/WAN Technical Consultant
On Aug 31, 2007 7:11 PM, William Herrera <william at lan-solutions.net> wrote:> Out of all the IP Phones out there, which one is the best and why?My experiences are with Polycom (ip500) and the Linksys/Cisco SPA94?. I like both but they are different. The best suggestion on this thread was to pick 4 and show them to the cust. Last time I was at a VoIP convention, there was a stand with about 50 models of phones to try from all the main manufacturers.