In a market full of choice and variety, it's funny that there are so few good SIP/VoIP phones around.
There are cheap toy phones being sold at premium prices .
There are expensive professional phones which just don't work properly.
Then there's this: Cisco bought Linksys who bought Sipura. This unholy combination looks something like: quality hardware + cheap prices + quality software.
The Linksys SPA942 really is a Cisco phone with Sipura software at Linksys prices (about £60 exVAT currently). It works with Asterisk, first time and every time. No reboots, no crashes, no voodoo required to get it to talk to the server over IP-NAT. Good weighted handset, clear sound, easy to use interface (and big, bright screen to view the interface on). Even the number buttons have that perfect weighting and clicky feel. No rubber buttons here. The web interface is a beauty to behold; it can be as simple to use as putting in the extension number and password, but there are options to change everything if you need to - and it's fairly logical and easy on the eyes.
