T48S vs T48G — is touchscreen worth $30?

For executive or boardroom phones, almost always yes — touch is now expected at this price. T48G is non-touch and feels dated next to a T48S.

T48S vs T48U — what does dual USB add?

T48U has two USB ports so you can run a wired headset and a Wi-Fi dongle simultaneously. Also supports the modern EXP43 sidecar. $20 more. For new deployments, T48U is the better buy.

Is the touchscreen full multi-touch?

Yes — capacitive, multi-touch capable. Swipe, tap, pinch work as expected.

Will the T48S support Android apps?

No. The T48S runs Yealink's proprietary firmware (not Android). For Android, look at the T58A or T58W.

Yealink · T4 series · 7-inch touchscreen

Yealink T48SSeven-inch capacitive touchscreen and a USB port.

Sixteen SIP accounts, a 7-inch 800×480 capacitive touchscreen, dual gigabit ethernet with PoE, single USB port, EHS support, Opus codec. The T48S is the touchscreen version of the T48G — the executive desk phone that introduced touch navigation to the Yealink T4 line.

Display

7″ color · 800×480 · capacitive touch

SIP accounts

16 lines

Programmable keys

29 line + multi-page

Ethernet

Dual gigabit · PoE class 3

Audio

HD voice · USB · EHS · Opus

Power

PoE or 5V/2A adapter

$269 one-time

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Yealink T48S voip desk phone — front view with handset and display — Yealink T48S

Why the T48S is on the catalog.

The T48S took the T48G chassis and added a capacitive touchscreen plus the standard mid-2010s Yealink refresh (USB port, Opus codec). For $30 over the T48G, you get a phone that lets executives tap to navigate menus, swipe between BLF pages, and use the directory like a small touchscreen device. For most users in the executive tier, this is the version you want.

Where touch actually helps: BLF page swiping with sixteen SIP lines and dozens of monitored extensions, browsing a 500-contact directory, switching between recent calls. Yealink's UI is built for touch on this model — buttons are sized appropriately, swipe gestures work as expected. It feels like a real touchscreen device, not a non-touch screen retrofitted.

Where the T48U beats it: dual USB instead of single (so a Wi-Fi dongle does not block headset port), modern EXP43 sidecar support, faster processor, longer firmware horizon. $20 more. For brand-new deployments the T48U is the right pick. The T48S stays in the catalog for the install base.

Full technical specifications.

Display & user interface
Display	7-inch 800×480 capacitive touch color TFT LCD
Touch	Multi-touch capacitive
Line keys	29 multi-page line keys with dual-color LEDs
Soft keys	4 context-sensitive soft keys
VoIP & SIP
SIP accounts	Up to 16 SIP accounts
Protocols	SIP v2, TLS, SRTP, BLF/BLA
Codecs	Opus, G.722, G.711, G.723.1, G.729AB, G.726, iLBC
Provisioning	FTP/TFTP/HTTP/HTTPS, PnP, TR-069, RPS
Audio
HD voice	HD handset and HD speakerphone
Speaker	Full-duplex with AEC
Headset	RJ9 + USB + EHS
Connectivity
Ethernet	Dual 10/100/1000 Mbps gigabit
PoE	IEEE 802.3af Class 3
USB	1 × USB 2.0
Expansion	EXP40 sidecar (legacy)
Power & physical
Power	PoE or 5V/2A adapter
Dimensions	Approximately 266 × 211 × 41 mm
Wall mount	Yes
In the box
Included	T48S handset, base, curl cord, ethernet cable, stand, provisioning card
Not included	Power adapter, USB headset, sidecar

How it works on voip.army.

Plug the T48S into PoE and ethernet. About a minute later it has registered to your extension. Same auto-provisioning flow as every other supported phone — no SIP credentials to type, no firmware to chase.

60s

Time from plug-in to first call

Boot, fetch config from our provisioning server, register, ready. About one minute on a normal connection.

SIP accounts on one phone

16 lines per phone. Each line key has a dual-color LED for status at a glance.

Programmable keys

29 line + multi-page mapped from the voip.army portal — BLF, paging, parking, transfer destinations.

Per-device onboarding fees

Bringing your own? Send us the MAC, factory-reset, plug in. No charge to add it to the fleet.

802.3af

PoE class

Standard PoE — any 802.3af-compliant switch from the last 15 years powers the phone without an adapter.

Yealink

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Yealink T48SSeven-inch capacitive touchscreen and a USB port.

Why the T48S is on the catalog.

Full technical specifications.

How it works on voip.army.

Time from plug-in to first call

SIP accounts on one phone

Programmable keys

Per-device onboarding fees

PoE class

Auto-provisioning template

Phones to compare it against.

Yealink T48G

Yealink T48U

Yealink T57W

Yealink T58A

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