Grandstream GXP1615 Business HD IP Phone - Small to Medium Sized VoIP Phone and Device Review

Has some pros Inexpensive and fairly high-quality IP phone Easy to set up, easy to set up on FreePBX 2 connection channels. Cons below: The plastic is flimsy, but what can you expect from a phone in this price range. Difficult setup when working through VPN channels.

How does the phone work very well so far. The hardware design is pretty poor for desk phone use. In the "almost vertical" position, it is not stable and very easy to tip over. In the "almost horizontal" position, the LAN cable and possibly the power cable (unless using POE) are carried and mostly left attached to the cables - this gets worse when using the supplied LAN cable. So it doesn't work very well anyway.

This works well and is a very handy VOIP phone (I use it with Voipo as ISP). Rendering can be an issue. While Grandstream supports automatic deployment via configuration files from a TFTP or HTTP server, the documentation for formatting these files and the list for mapping different options to the different codes assigned to them is in different places, not in one organized place Art a place. This means a lot of trial and error to get them set up and running as 'managed' phones rather than user

For such a small price (if you find a good supplier, you can bring down the price by 30% of the recommended one), out of more than 300 devices, only 4 died over time - 3 burned out the network chip, one stopped working hook switch (this is a button that works when lifting / resetting tubes) - in general, a good percentage, our supplier changed all the devices to new ones without question. To switch from analog to IP telephony, the most optimal option in terms of budget / functionality /…