Yealink SIP-T46UThe phone people who live on the phone ask for.

Why the T46U is our workhorse pick.

The Yealink T46U replaced the T46S in 2020 with three meaningful upgrades: a second USB port (so you can run a headset and a recording device without an adapter), support for the newer EXP43 paper-label-free expansion modules, and a faster processor that makes the menus feel instant instead of laggy after a year of firmware bloat. Everything else — the 4.3-inch color screen, the 16 SIP accounts, the dual gigabit ports, the dependable Optoma HD-Voice handset — is exactly what made the T46S the standard mid-tier business phone for the previous five years.

It's the phone we recommend to anyone who'd otherwise be tempted by a touchscreen executive model. The T48U and T57W are nice, but most of our customers find that after a week, they're using line keys and the dialpad — the touchscreen becomes a fingerprint magnet they never actually tap. The T46U gives you the same screen real estate, the same color clarity, the same 16 BLF buddy keys, for $120 less and a sturdier feel under the hand.

Where it isn't the right phone: if you need built-in Wi-Fi (look at the T54W instead — same form factor, $30 more), if you're putting it on a CEO's desk and the optics matter (the T58W is the visible-luxury choice), or if you need a phone for a hot desk where someone's going to slam the handset back into the cradle twenty times a day (the T31P is half the price and just as indestructible).

For everyone else — sales floors, customer support, branch managers, the people who actually pick up the phone all day — the T46U is the phone we've shipped more of than any other model in our catalog, and the one that comes back with warranty claims the least.