asterisk users - Jun 2004 - Cheap (US$120 or less) SIP Phones

These are the three cheap SIP phones that I've used.

Grandstream BT10x $65/street
  Number only LCD

Zultys ZIP 2 $100/retail
  No LCD

Uniden UIP 200 $120/retail
  PoE, built-in switch  


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          Eric Wieling * BTEL Consulting * 504-899-1387 x2111
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On 17 June 2004 Eric Wieling wrote:
> These are the three cheap SIP phones that I've used.
> 
> Grandstream BT10x $65/street
>   Number only LCD
> 
> Zultys ZIP 2 $100/retail
>   No LCD
> 
> Uniden UIP 200 $120/retail
>   PoE, built-in switch  
Are there any online retailers that carry the Uniden UIP series phones? I
did a quick Froogle search to no avail.

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Tony Kava
Senior Network Administrator
Pottawattamie County, Iowa

> Are there any online retailers that carry the Uniden UIP series phones? I
> did a quick Froogle search to no avail.
> 
See:
    http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Uniden


Jim

James H. Thompson
jht@lava.net

On Jun 25, 2004, at 8:51 PM, asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com 
wrote:
> I highly recommend the UIP200. Although I haven't used all the phones 
> out there, I know it performs and sounds a lot better than the Snom 
> 200 and Grandstream...comparable to Cisco 7960 in sound quality. We 
> use it for our Asterisk set up in the office and it is fully 
> compatible. Couple of down sides are: no web server and no STUN 
> support. Outbound proxy is what you have to use if behind a home 
> router NAT. Uniden tech support said they focus on business 
> deployment, so mass configuration using files and TFTP server is their 
> choice for configuring. No web server is a little bit annoying when 
> you just want to make changes to one phone and don't feel like editing 
> a text file, but when you need to make a common change or firmware 
> upgrade for 20 phones, you only need to change one file and reboot all 
> phones for them to take effect...then this is great. It'd be nice if 
> they support both methods! STUN is said to be available in next 
> firmware release  in a couple months along with addit
>  ional
>  features.

I'm in the process of trying to get a UIP200. I say "in process" 
because I ordered one online, but was told they are on backorder for at 
least two weeks. I ordered mine from here:

http://www.thevoipconnection.com/store/customer/home.php?cat=253

It looks like a great phone, I just wish I could get my hands on one 
soon and try it out.

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Seth "veritas vos liberabit" Mattinen
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