VoIP phones have become a requirement today and every enterprise needs a phone which could give them there desired functionality and very good feature set. Here is one such phone which is a little expensive priced at £106.99 (without VAT), and has some great feature you will fall for. As far looks are concerned, it's broad with big screen, black in colour and gives a stylish look at your office or home.

Aastra 480i IP Phone Features:

• A Larger Display with 8 line backlit screen. 6 context sensitive softkeys helps in looking at more information about a call.
• Enhanced Call Management allowing to store large amount of personal directory, call list, redial list, and other caller logs etc.
• Tight Integration with other telephony systems like Sphericall MGCP and multiple SIP based IP telephony systems like Nortel, BroadWorks, Asterisk and Sylantro.
• Multi call support allows having 9 simultaneous calls at one time and it's easy to look at each call on the large display with softkeys to switch between calls.
• Shared Call Appearances gives you a feature when a user is allowed to place a call on hold at one set and pickup another call at the other set
• Great audio support and quality speakerphone makes user's calling experience a memorable one as it has an excellent voice delivery.
• Protect Your Investments as any future firmware upgrades can be downloaded from the online website and be installed on the phone without much hassle keeping a standard set of software version for all your VoIP phones.
• One wire per phone as the built in Ethernet dual 10/100 port gives a facility to share the connection with user's computer and power runs through the same wire giving an inline power support which eliminates a power adapter usage.

The Technical Specifications of the Phone

The phone can be setup in a 2 position desk stand which is 24.9 cm W x 14.7 cm D x 11.5cm D (9.8"W x 5.8"D x 4.5"H) in size and weighs 850 g (30.0 oz.). Power is supplied according to the IEEE 802.3af inline power device compatibility checklist. There is also an optional Power over Ethernet (POE) injector available which is optional and provided for those networks that do not supply power.

Handset / Headset are modular and compatible with amplified type business headsets. You can also get hearing aid compatible handset for those who would need with quality speakerphone.

The large backlit display is of 3.5" x 2.25" with 8 lines and comes with 4 call appearance lines and 4 navigational featured keys. You will also get 6 customizable softkeys which can be programmed to support up to 18 functions. There are 8 predefined hard keys for basic call handling and call transfer, conference, redial, hold, mute etc.

To get this phone on a network it comes with a Dual port 10/100 RJ45 Ethernet port, which can be configured with either a manual IP address or can be set to pick one from the DHCP server. It supports the Date and time synchronisation with the time server using SNTP has a built-in HTTP web server to administration and maintenance tasks.