Rating: 
Summary: Good phone, worthless battery!
Review: The system is excellent regarding the quality of the calls and the features that it offers. On the contrary, the NiCad batteries do not last as advertised and quickly develop "charge memory" rendering the whole system useless. In my case, I bought the base and three extra handsets with dual line and answering system. This represents approximately a $500.00 investment on useless equipment due to a faulty battery.Panasonic should make a recall and replace all NiCad batteries free of charge. Do not buy this phone unless the battery issues have been solved.
Rating:
Summary: Good phone, worthless battery!
Review: The system is excellent regarding the quality of the calls and the features that it offers. On the contrary, the NiCad batteries do not last as advertised and quickly develop "charge memory" rendering the whole system useless. In my case, I bought the base and three extra handsets with dual line and answering system. This represents approximately a $500.00 investment on useless equipment due to a faulty battery. Panasonic should make a recall and replace all NiCad batteries free of charge. Do not buy this phone unless the battery issues have been solved.
Rating: 
Summary: Absolutely the Worst Phone; Terrible
Review: This is the worst phone for the money I have ever owned. I agree with the earlier reviewer that the handset caller ID works only about 30% of the time, and for the money, the features are not that great. I will never buy another Panasonic phone again.
I also have the extra handset for this, which works poorly. Half the time, I pick it up and say, "Hello," and it beeps and says, "No connection to base." My friends are sick of me saying, "Hold on, I'm having a problem with my phone." I have a $10 model that works better. Defintely don't buy this.
Rating: 
Summary: works for me
Review: We bought this phone several months ago and have not had a single problem with it. The extra handset works great and the main phone, even though it is set up where it "technically" isn't supposed to be, works fine.
We have voice mail so we do not use the answering machine part therefore I cannot comment on that. But the rest of it works great. I particularly like the different rings you can choose for each phone. Makes it much less "intrusive" when it rings. And with a baby, that is VERY nice.
Rating: 
Summary: Problem with Caller ID
Review: We got this phone system so my husband and I could use the intercom feature to talk to each other from opposite sides of the house. Works great for this purpose. However, on the cordless handset, the caller ID doesn't show up until after 3 rings, then you have to hurry & answer it before the answering system kicks in. My husband ended up having two different cordless phones on his desk; one for the intercom and another one so he can see the Caller ID display. What a pain in the neck!! I e-mailed customer support at Panasonic a couple of weeks ago and have heard NOTHING from them.
UPDATE: 3/17/04 - We still had no reply to our e-mail, so we called the toll free customer service number. They guided us through the steps to change the "Line Mode" from the factory setting of B to A. This solved the caller ID problem. They still should have responded to my e-mail, but I'm changing my rating from 3 stars to 4. I'm pretty satisfied with the phone now.
Rating:
Summary: Problem with Caller ID
Review: We got this phone system so my husband and I could use the intercom feature to talk to each other from opposite sides of the house. Works great for this purpose. However, on the cordless handset, the caller ID doesn't show up until after 3 rings, then you have to hurry & answer it before the answering system kicks in. My husband ended up having two different cordless phones on his desk; one for the intercom and another one so he can see the Caller ID display. What a pain in the neck!! I e-mailed customer support at Panasonic a couple of weeks ago and have heard NOTHING from them.
UPDATE: 3/17/04 - We still had no reply to our e-mail, so we called the toll free customer service number. They guided us through the steps to change the "Line Mode" from the factory setting of B to A. This solved the caller ID problem. They still should have responded to my e-mail, but I'm changing my rating from 3 stars to 4. I'm pretty satisfied with the phone now.
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