GrandStream BudgeTone 101 SIP phones

 

I’m using three of the GrandStream BudgeTone 101 SIP phones in my home phone system, and must say that I’m satisfied with them. There are only a few minor problems I’ve found with them, one of which their technical support helped my correct:
1. Conference button did not work, but does now that their support had me update the firmware with a yet-to-be-released firmware version (v. 1.0.7.11). The current firmware version available on their website is v. 1.0.6.7.
2. The message button I haven’t yet gotten to work just right, but it may be that I haven’t played with it long enough. The way it currently works for me is that it just calls the extension number as if you were calling it from another phone, and getting the extension’s voicemail greeting. Not really a big deal though since you can just press the * key to log into your voicemail.
3. The speaker phone works decently, but not perfectly. You sometimes get a little bit of an echo when using it.
4. The sound quality is good, but just a tad bit “dull”.
All-in-all though, for the price (a little less than $60 typically), I’m satisfied.