Rating: 
Summary: Great Phone - Only Drawback is Limit of Mere 3 Extensions
Review: This is a great 5.8Ghz phone system. I got it to avoid interference with my Wireless Network (that runs on 2.4Ghz). It's much better reception and sound quality than the new Uniden sets that I returned, but not quite as feature rich as they were. Overall, I'm very happy. The only drawback is that they only allow a total of 4 phones (base + 3 extensions). If they came out with a model with more extensions, I'd buy it right away!
Rating: 
Summary: Best of a bad bunch?
Review: This phone replaced a 2-4 yo 900MHz Panasonic Gigarange phone. The old phone's number pad stopped working after about 2 years of use -- 1 or 2 buttons would enter double digits or required excessive pressure to work.
The old phone did everything I wanted. It did quite a bit more, but I mostly ignored those features. It didn't interfere with my 802.11b network. Like most post 1997 consumer products, it was not made to last. I find that very annoying; I hate the hassle of replacing things that work. When it came time to replace that phone I'd have chosen a non-Panasonic brand -- if a better alternative existed.
Unfortunately, there's no alternative in this market. All the products are cheaply made, everyone's quality control and customer service is poor, everyone produces a dizzying array of minor product variations that make comparison shopping pretty much impossible. So I bought another cheap Panasonic phone. I'd have bought a 900MHz phone if one were available, but the vendors evidently decided those worked too well.
I gave this product 3 stars because it feels like it will last about 18 months and be replaced when the batteries die. However, I don't think there's really anything better on the market.
In our small house the range is adequate. It doesn't interfere with my 802.11b network, I haven't tested it with an 802.11g network (we may see problems there).
One key note: this model's base station doesn't have a speaker phone or keypad. There's another variation of this phone system that DOES have a speaker phone and keypad on the base station. I'd recommend that variant instead of this one. That other model also ships with two handsets. With a speakerphone base station you can always find a phone. There are endless variations on this phone from Panasonic, good luck sorting them all out and figuring which is the most recent.
A good feature: the phone directory list works well and it's easy to copy the list from one handset to another.
My next wireless phone (2007) will presumably be a VOIP handset; so this is probably the last phone I buy that will have such an odd mix of wireless protocols and features. Overall this phone reminds me a bit of the pre-PC dedicated wordprocessors, but they were better made.
Bottom line: Buy the version with the keypad, look for a good price, if it doesn't work don't bother with customer support -- just return it and order another one.
Rating:
Summary: Great Phone
Review: This Phone works great. I have it for two weeks and I'm very happy with it.
Rating: 
Summary: Sound quality is garbled at times
Review: We just purchase this phone over Christmas and the phone has some great features. But it fails at times in the most important feature a phone should have which is sound quality.
At times the sound quality is so garbled that both parties can not understand each other. This occurs when standing within feet of the phone or in another section of the house.
My old 900 DSS phone had better sound then this new phone system.
I expect we will be returning the phone.
Rating:
Summary: Great phone
Review: We've had this phone for only a few days now, but it seems like Panasonic has really paid attention to all the criticisms of its past phones, and addressed them.I have always liked Panasonic cordless phones, but it always seemed like one or two things on the phone could have been improved, or, worse, were intentionally left out to save money. These phones have all the right features -- slim profile, digital spread spectrum, handset speakerphones, NiMH batteries, mute function, intercom -- and their ease of use is really great. Previous Panasonic phones I've had did not allow you to turn the ringer off completely (only lowered the volume), and the phone memory took so long to scroll through that it wasn't worth the trouble to use the phone book dialer if you knew the number. These phones scroll as quickly as you can press the buttons. You can even send phone book numbers from one handset to the others, so you don't have to program each handset's phone book separately. Oh, and you can listen to your answering machine messages on the handset speakerphone (previous Panasonic models only allowed message playback through the handset earpiece, not on the speakerphone). The only limitations I see so far are that this system only expands to four handsets, while the previous 5.8 GHz models expanded to eight, and you can only conference up to three handsets on a call, not the full four that the system supports. All in all though, we are very pleased with this phone system. It is a keeper.
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