Its only been six weeks since I ordered it, but my Sipura SPA-841 SIP telephone arrived yesterday. I hooked it up for the first time today and have to admit that its the best value for the price for an IP telephone.
The only noticible drawback is the poor speakerphone. The microphone is a tiny pinprick of a hole in the bottom of the phone. It is nearly impossible to be heard through that microphone. Other than that, though, its not a bad phone: two line appearances, extensive web-based configuration pages, pixelated display screen, mute button, and a 2.5mm mini-phono jack which lets you use cellphone headsets with the phone. Sound quality is excellent from the handset, too.
Another minor quibble is the shape of the handset. Its curvy shape, coupled with the shallow handset base, makes it easy to think you’ve hung up the phone, when instead the handset has missed the hook button and is resting on the phone body. Like J. Lo and Ben Affleck, the two just don’t mate very well. I suppose after some getting used to it, I can train myself to hang it up properly. Time will tell how bothersome that becomes.
Overall, though, I can’t complain. It’s a $90 phone that sets the new entry point for VoIP phones. It’s not as sophisticated as the Polycom IP 500, but a good deal all the same.
MT.Net says check it out!