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Summary: The PERFECT PHONE...!!!
Review: This is the best cordless phone you will ever find.
Easy to use, perfect sound, more feautures than any other phone...!!!
You will be happy with this phone, the best choice I could have made.
Very highly recommended !!
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Summary: The PERFECT PHONE...!
Review: This is the best cordless phone you will ever find.
Easy to use, perfect sound, more feautures than any other phone...!
You will be happy with this phone, the best choice I could have made.
Very highly recommended !
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Summary: Very Nice Phone When It Works
Review: Certainly some polarized views on this phone.While mine was working, I really liked it. Sound quality was fine, no interference with 802.11b, good range (3,200 sq ft 2-story house with thick walls), quite easy to understand the menus, some very nifty features (especially like the speakerphone), and attractive styling (to be honest the Panasonic's cheap looks alone rule it out for me). However, my base unit stopped working within a week. So I'll return this phone (to the store, not to Siemens) for a new one, and take my chances. Usually I find that electronics either break quickly or last a long time, and I'll gamble that the base unit does so as well. I might buy the extended warranty as well. So, a mixed review.
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Summary: Just plain aggravating
Review: Spent too much time researching cordless phones ended up going with this one given that it appeared to have the most positive reviews. Have owned it for about 5 months along with an extra headset. Bottom line this phone is poorly conceived and engineered and just plain aggravating at times. There is almost a constant buzzing sound in the background (I am not running a WIFI network), the controls on the handset are very complicated (way more so than even the most "advanced" cell phone) and I consider myself a technofile. I just wanted a high quality cordless phone that had a good signal, battery life, looked good and was free of defects what I got was a phone with questionable sound quality and a need for a PHD to figure out how it works. For those of you with a temper save yourself from eventually chucking this phone at the wall and look elsewhere.
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Summary: Buy something else
Review: I have been having this phone for about one year. I works fine, but it is so combersome to use that it is not really worth buying it. Perhaps the manufacturer paid so much attention to the non-phone features that they forgot the basics. Pressing the buttons has an annoying delay, the caller id has problems displaying the names unless they are already stored in the phone directory, etc. But the really weird one is that I was unable to use the call waiting feature until few days ago. Apparently to flash the hook you have to press the "mem" button (nowhere mentioned in the manual ... oh yeah it's intuitive!) and you have to do that for some amount of time, not too long not too short. Until I found this "feature", I tried to use other phones in the house to avoid missing calls. I buy a phone for the phone features, not for the pda features. I do not carry my cordless phone to the office! I could care less for the pda features, but I expect the call waiting to work in a "normal" way. Is that hard?
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Summary: Best GHZ phone tested
Review: My wife and I looked and brought home three different 2.4 ghz phones. These phones ranged from the low 90s to the high 180s. We were unhappy and returned all of them. I decided to spend a little extra money and buy a well know brand in the phone industry... Siemens. We are EXTREMELY happy with our purchase. I like the portability the base and additional handsets. I also like the funtionality built-in to the phone. A few of these include: room monitoring, ringer volume, ringer tones, setting the time and day the phone is allowed to ring. There are many more options that are worth looking into. Overall, I would rate this one of my BEST buys for 2002.
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Summary: Don't buy these phones!
Review: I've had this phone along with 2 additional handsets. I bought them without doing much research first but thought they looked great and offered a great deal of services. They have never worked well. Call waiting does not work and the phones have intermittently cut off conversations since I got them. The phone system dies just before the warranty ran out. Siemens has taken a month to send me a new phone leaving me with no choice but to go out and buy new phones. I've been dissapointed with the product for a year and the terrible customer service has convinced me not to buy another Siemens product.
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Summary: Nice phone, but...
Review: I have owned a 4215/4200 combination for a month now. Overall, I am pretty happy with the phone. I have not yet found any of the battery problems that seem to have plagued other people and I am enjoying all the great features this phone provides. Although the manual is somewhat useful, it is sometimes obscure and not all features are well documented. I am mostly upset that this phone does not support a MUTE function. This function is supposed to let you continue to hear the incoming caller voice while preventing the caller from hearing your voice. Customer Service suggests you use the HOLD function instead. When the HOLD function is activated, the caller hears a very annoying synthesized music that CANNOT be changed. This is a terrible feature and would hope that Siemens will correct this flaw.
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Summary: Siemens cordless phones-BEWARE
Review: Siemens do not offer repair support in the US on any of their phones once the one year warranty is up. I was willing to pay and send it wherever but no luck there. If your phone system goes wrong, you are on your own! All they do is suggest you buy a reconditioned unit from them.
Until they sort this out, I would recommend not buying their phones. I speak from experience after having suffered their uncaring Customer Care dept.
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Summary: The base station fails!
Review: We had our phone for just a year when the base station failed. After doing some research, we learned that this is a very common problem with this phone. As a "courtesy" the manufacturer agreed to replace the base station after we returned ours by mail, but considering what we have learned, we expect that this will fail again. The phone has lots of features, including a good directory. The speakerphone sound quality is good. The sound quality using the handset is average--sometimes hissy, sometimes tinny. Overall, the phone is a little cumbersome to use--not really intuitive. If you tend to rest the handset on your shoulder when you talk, you will disconnect, because of the way the handset is designed. I definitely do not recommend this phone. I was not terribly happy with it when it was working, but now I know that it has a history of problems. Do your research before purchasing this! We will try the Uniden TRU-5685-2 (?) instead.
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