Cisco 7960G IP Phone

Pros: easy to use, lots of features

Cons: a little bit large

The Bottom Line: While the phone is somewhat large, the large display, nice features, and the ease of using this phone really makes it an excellent phone.

Review: I am not the most technologically advanced person in the world, especially when it comes to office technology. I do however know what works and what doesn't work within the office. With all of the time that I have spent working in an office environment ...

Pros: Superior voice quality, good build, very reliable and some good features as well

Cons: A real pain to set up

The Bottom Line: An excellent phone, but if you don't like the idea of setting up a TFTP server and messing pages of plaintext config files don't bother!

Review: The first time I saw one of these must have been in a department store in Croydon. They were everywhere but plenty of paranoid staff around who would probably freak if you looked at one for too long. For quite a while now I have used Voiptalk's SIP ...

Pros: Professional looking, excellent speakerphone and handset audio quality, choice of ring tones, inline power-capable

Cons: Only 4 speed-dial buttons, soft buttons not intuitive, some configuration available on web management only

The Bottom Line: A good manager/executive Cisco IP phone with a short learning curve. Price-point is too high for staff phones. New color phones are better for data display applications.

Review: Looking beyond its movie star persona (it's a prop phone in many recent movies), the Cisco 7960 IP Phone is the executive-level telephone in Cisco's portfolio of Voice Over IP (VoIP) products. While it's definitely stylish, it comes with some ...