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Summary: Only good for a short time with too many features
Review: I bought this phone about 17 months ago. Since then the phone was repaired once, batteries were changed at least four times. (although they are rechargeables.) The batteries don't last for an entire day. The features of the phone are nice but for most users useless, unless you have a mansion where you want to use several cordless phones. If you want a phone for comfortable everyday use, DON'T BUY THIS PHONE.
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Summary: Convenient and functional
Review: I was looking for a phone/answering device that is clear andreliable as well as convenient. The sound is very clear. I have had the system for 8 months now with not a hint of trouble.This phone is the ultimate in convenience. It has a headset jack (2.5mm) and access to every facet of the answering system through the handset. It comes with a clip so you can put it on your belt. Using the headset, I can feed and care for the baby with both hands while using the phone to talk or listen to messages. The only problem is that the kiddo wants to get a hold of the boom mic on the headset. Well it keeps him occupied anyway. I have done dishes, yardwork, cleaning, all sorts of stuff while listening to long-winded people. I got a Plantronics headset. It also works very well. The handsets have caller id with a backlight so you can see who's calling in the dark. You can configure the backlight to turn on when the phone rings so you don't have to touch it if you're in bed. You can configure the handset speech volume, ring tone and volume, base ringer tone and volume, you can lock the keypad, enter directory entries by hand or take them from the call log, and more not to mention all the stuff you can do with the answering device. There is an intercom function you can use if you get two handsets. You can set the intercomm ring to be the same or like the telephone ring. While taking care of the kiddo, I ring my wife for food and baby supplies during her parties. It works great! There is also a room monitor feature with two handsets. It's nicer than the baby monitor because the receiver is not on all the time. It rings when there is a noise and then you can answer and listen (but not talk). There are three sensitivity settings on the monitor. The expansion handset chargers have a compartment for charging a second battery. I got the Nmh batteries but the Nicads work well enough. With two handsets, I've never had to put a second battery in to use the phone. Sometimes a handset will sit off the charger for a week or more before it needs more juice. It beeps to let you know its going dead. The range is terrific! I can use the handsets inside the house next door or outside about three houses away. It's fine for all around my own yard. It doesn't hiss, when you go out of range it just breaks apart... What I don't like: If you're in the menu tree doing something or checking messages and someone calls, you get thrown out of the menu and whatever you were doing (maybe editing an entry) is lost. I was listening to a message my father had left telling me that he was going to the hospital when an insurance salesman called just before I got the hospital information. I had to answer and tell him to clear the line because I had an emergency. It only took a few seconds to replay the message but it seemed like an eternity. I guess they chose to do it this way so you don't miss calls. It would be nice if the base had battery backup during power failures. It could use a spare handset battery to do this. I read about some other phones that do but could never find which particular models. Also, the monitor sensitivity could be a little better. Overall a great phone that makes life a lot easier!
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Summary: just not worth it
Review: i bought this phone yesterday and returned it today. the sound of the base speaker is tinny and unclear. while the sound of the other party was clear to me on the phone, the other party thought i was on a speaker phone. the features are far from intuitive and it requires just too many steps to change the settings. i was atracted to this phone because of it's looks and functionality, but trust me, it's a let down. also the the way it's wired is just too unique. the phone jack and power suply share a single plug on the unit. that way if you need to replace iether of them, you have to go back to siemens. i replaced this phone with the panisonic 2570 and it won't take much for that to be the better phone.
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Summary: Great phone for the home office
Review: I had the phone for a month now. I like it a lot. It has very crisp sound, no interfesrence at all. The range on it is pretty good. I can take it three houses down the road from my house. If you need more range, you might want to consider a Cell Phone<g>. I am not disappointed at all in this phone. It does exactly what I want in cordless phone with an answering machine.
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Summary: Save yourself the trouble...don't buy this system!
Review: Initially, this system had lots of promise with its ease of use, functionality and cordless convenience. However, with use, the reception degraded markedly to the point where the caller on the other could not hear us. The unit in the downstairs home office was so bad that we had to go back to a regular corded phone. Also, we were very careful to run the batteries down to avoid "battery memory"...to be blunt, the battery life on these phones is horrible. Overall, we are very unhappy with this product and with Amazon's refusal to take it back. The 30 day period is too short and doesn't allow for a detailed review of a product that is obviously designed to fail after a short period of use. I am unlikely to buy another Siemens product again.
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Summary: Unable to find information
Review: I had wanted to purchase this item immediately for the office, but I was unable to go through with the purchase because there is NOWEHRE where you can find information about optional head-set plug in capability .... This feature is a must and a five star review along with Siemens Name is a plus , but Consumers need more info
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Summary: Heed the Reviews--Don't Buy this Phone
Review: You would think I'd have taken my own advice. I didn't. After reading the reviews on this website, I bought the Siemens 2415 anyway. The reviews told me that people either loved or hated it this phone system. I ended up hating it. What attracted me to the phone system is the styling. No antenna to break, a streamlined hi-tech but low key look, the phone and answering machine takes up a minimum amount of space and the phone is comfortable next to my face. This is important to those of us who use the phone constantly. I bought the phone, charged it up, studied the manual (which is ambiguous in many places. Siemens should have non-engineer types write these manuals for the rest of us.) Programmed the phone, charged it and entered all my numbers in the directory and was ready to be impressed. WRONG! The biggest problem with the phone is that it did not work with Call Waiting and Call Waiting for Caller Id, which is why I bought the phone in the first place. I would look at the window on the phone while it was ringing, past the second ring, which according to the manual is what needed to identify the incoming call. And NOTHING. Just a LINE RINGING message. I still have my old 900 mhz AT&T phone attached to an old Caller ID box. That Caller ID box lights up with the incoming number. But not the new, expensive Siemens phone. Or numbers that register on my old Caller ID box come in as "Unavailable" on the Siemens phone. So I called customer service. A very bored sounding young woman told me to deregister the phone by powering it down for 5 minutes and powering it back up. That did NOT fix the problem. So she told me to exchange the phone where I bought it. I did. Guess what. Same problem. I just got off the line with another customer service rep from Siemens who told me the truth. This phone has a signal that is incompatible with some phone company signals, so it does not receive Caller ID and Caller ID for Call Waiting. Or sometimes the calls are identified, but not always and the service is spotty. Sometime the call comes through as "Unavailable" when it is identified by other Caller ID devices. The Customer Service Rep was very nice and told me that Siemens engineers are working on the problem, a software glitch, and it should be fixed in a month. So I can keep the phone and send it to Siemens for a new one. Yah, Right! I live in San Diego, not exactly a small town. Siemens seemed to imply that the fault was with Pac Bell. You be the judge. Needless to say it is going back and I'm going to continue my search for a phone that does what it says it does. If you are interested, here are other design flaws (I think) of the product: 1. There is no one-touch calling feature in the handset. Most other phones and even mobile phones allow you to press a recall button and a number where a frequently called number is stored. This phone does not. I miss this feature. It takes a lot of steps to search the number in the directory, select it, call it. 2. The answering machine is outdated. If someone listens to your message and hangs up, you hear the dead air and hangup. Other answering machines solved this problem years ago. 3. You have no idea how many new calls you have on the answering machine until you play them. 4. It does sound like you are talking through a tube to the receiver of the message. I hope the marketing people and engineers at Siemens read this message. Debug your product before you put it on the market, or recall it until you can provide what you promise. I bought the phone because of Siemen's reputation for excellence, perhaps that is all hype too.
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Summary: Good answering machine, mediocre cordless phone
Review: I would give this phone/answering machine a mixed review. The answering machine is reliable, fairly simple to operate, and the quality of message playback is very high. I would rate the sound quality of the handset, however, as mediocre at best. There's always a little audible static (white noise or hiss) in the background, no matter how near or far you are from the base unit. Also, I've noticed a strange "echo" or feedback effect, particularly when the person on the other end of the line is on a digital cell phone (strange as that may seem). Frankly, my old Panasonic 900 MHz cordless has clearer reception. Finally, the menu system that controls all of the phone's features and settings (accessed through the handset) seems to me unnecessarily complex, and the controls on the handset don't function intuitively. On the other hand, the operating range of the handset is very good. Furthermore, the expandability of the Siemens system is great. It is nice to be able to place an extension unit (handset/charger base) in any room even if it lacks a phone jack. Bottom line - buy this system if you need its expandability (and its decent answering machine); otherwise, you might want to pass.
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Summary: A True dog biscuit
Review: This products is absolutely terrible. How do you like coming home and having 15 people call you and only 3 messages be there and having to delete all 15 messages 1 at a time. This phone is absolutely the worst cordless I have had. It never should have even been manufactured. I ended up returning It for a 2420 which I am happy with.
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Summary: Great features, nice design, poor range.
Review: I'm generally pleased with this phone. The features are great although the programming can get a little complicated. The design is the slickest of all the 2.4 GHz phones on the market. It looks great without all the superfluous buttons and gizmos found on other phones. However, I am disappointed with the range of this phone. I can barely get one hundred yards from the base without it breaking-up and giving me an out-of-range signal... and I live in a rural area without obstacles to reduce reception. My old 900 MHz analog phone had better range and my friend can use his Panasonic 2.4 GHz a half-mile away. If you're looking for a nice looking phone with good features this is the one for you but if you're looking for good range go with something else.
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