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Summary: Seemlingly nice phone, but serious problems lurk...
Review: Great feature list, but here's what doesn't work well:1. The phone randomly decides to reset itself, usually when you are picking up an incoming call. This behavior occurs on a colleague's phone as well. 2. The handsfree feature is half duplex, and it works poorly enough that I don't bother using it anymore. 3. The memory capability is simplistic and awkward. It doesn't share the phone numbers between handsets, and you can't edit a number that you receive through caller ID (well, you can edit it, but if you have to shorten or lengthen the number, you're out of luck) It'd be nice if the caller ID call back would automatically figure out how to dial based on your area code as well, but no such luck. I put up with this phone for a year, simply because I hate spending ... on something just to throw it away. I'm looking for a better product now.
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Summary: Coolest-looking phone on the market, but...
Review: I bought the phone 10 months ago for its incredibly cool look and for its selectable ringer. It's been a big improvement over the horrendous AT&T cordless 900MHz phone that I owned previously -- that phone made the simple task of answering a call troublesome. The handsfree and speakerphone modes are great, as are the phone's easy programmability. The handset has good range. Unfortunately, there's a very slight but noticeable buzz in the earpiece, and when I record outgoing messages on my voice mail, I can tell that the microphone has been adding background noise to my voice even in a quiet room; it sounds like I'm talking through a speakerphone. Furthermore, the earpiece is highly directional -- when I move my ear just a wee bit up or down the headset, I can't hear the caller anymore. The earpiece problem was solved when I bought a headset. (I wasn't comfortable with a 2.4GHz transmitter parked next to my brain, and I like to have my hands free during long conversations.) The buzz vanished -- wahoo! So now I have an incredibly cool-looking phone that also works acceptably well.
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Summary: Great features, so-so sound and range
Review: I bought the VTECH based on size and features (very hard to tell the range and sound quality in the store). I planned to test it and return it, if the range was not good enough. Well, the range is not good enough and the sound has an echo and tinny quality but I still own it. Why? The feature are so good that I use it as my desk phone and sometime use it to move away from the desk. The momory book with names is great, the multiple memory redial is great, the speaker phone in the handset is great and the speakerphone in the base is great. It would be the best phone I have ever owned, if it had better range and sound quality.
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Summary: Base Unit for best cordless phone I have used
Review: This is the base unit that supports up to 4 handsets and comes with 1 handset. Works fine. I like the handsets as the voice is clear and there is a handsfree mode on the base as well as the handsets. Great product.
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Summary: Great Features ... this phone works great for me.
Review: I was concerned about some of the negative comments made about the VTech phones, but my experience has been very positive. I had a couple Panasonic 2.4 units, but both developed a problem with static making it impossible to hear anything, so I will now tell people to avoid the Panasonic (zero star rating). I have only had the VTech phones for a short period of time, but so far, they have worked better than the Panasonic and the features are absolutely fantastic !!! I have the base and 3 handsets. Following are comments about my experience with the VTech phones. Sound quality For base unit, the speaker phone works great ... I have no complaints at all about sound quality. For handheld normal mode, the sound quality is generally pretty good. It has been at least as good as the Panasonic and with features like volume control and mute, it is the clear winner. For handheld handsfree mode, the feature is very useful, but sometimes the sound output breaks up. In general, I think the sound quality is still usually good. Range/Distance I can go down the block to my mailbox, so the range is about the same as the Panasonic. Features With things like the speakerphone, multiple handsets, handsfree mode, intercom, mute and volume controls, hold and transfer calls ... the VTech work great for me !!!
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Summary: This sexy, ultraportable phone rocks!
Review: In December 2000, I had tried a Panasonic KXT2570 2.4GHz phone, and while it looked really good and the specs were promising, I was not happy that it sounded so hollow on the other party's end (another reviewer complained of the same problem). We returned that phone, considered a Siemens product, but were shown the VTECH. I had never held VTECH in high regard, but after using this product, I'm a VTECH fan. It's a very small phone, which can be a problem for those with large hands. But considering that most people have adapted to life with mobile phones that are already way too small, I think the VTECH is pretty easy to live with. The speakerphone built into the handset was a VTECH first (in December of 2000) and it's been really helpful for those times when I've had to be on hold for a long time. Many phones now have this same feature. The 2.4GHz and small size means that I can put this phone easily in my pocket as I follow my kids around as they play in the front or back yards. The range is pretty good, and I have my mobile phone anyway, if I wanted to go really, really far. The display has all sorts of useful information. I do not currently subscribe to caller-id services, and I was pleased to see that the display didn't default to a meaningless text message when the handset was idle (the Panasonic phone used to display a confusing message that only served to remind you that you needed to subscribe to caller-id). As with other phones in this genre, the base and handset can talk to each other in intercom fashion. If you buy additional handsets, they can intercom with each other too. AT&T offers a very similar phone to this one, and I'm pretty sure that VTECH makes that model -- or that AT&T and VTECH are using the same supplier. I had a problem with the phone about six months into using it, something that VTECH had already fixed in the newer phones, and they gladly took the phone back and replaced it with a newer one that works much better. I wish that the base and the remote phones could all share the same database of phone numbers, but this is also a problem on phones made by other manufacturers, and VTECH isn't to be strongly faulted on this. This is a really nice phone, and I think it's about as good as the other phones that are out there. I'm pretty sure that a better phone would cost a lot more, and that it would also have its own set of gaudy looking controls or useless features to justfiy the higher price (the current line of Panasonics comes to mind). If nothing else amazes you about this product, buy this phone simply to impress your friends by your amazing style and the "wow" factor that it brings. Everyone who has used our phone has liked it, some even thought it was a cell phone.
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Summary: The features are great but sound quality lets it down
Review: Looks good and has nice features, but the sound quality and static is totally unacceptable. I tried all the solutions recommended in manual and FAQs on VTech website, to no avail. I contacted VTech customer support and they have been non-responsive. The static somewhat disappears when using the handset speaker, but the speaker seems to operate in half duplex -- so if I happen to talk at the same time as the person at the other end of the line, it echos back and cuts out. AND, when on speaker, the other party can't hear unless it is within a foot from my mouth. This phone has features I am having trouble finding in any other brand -- no answering machine, ability to add extra handsets, speakerphone, and headset jack. But it's going back and the search will begin again.
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Summary: Great little thing!!
Review: I first bought the panasonic 2500s and ended up having to return it because the sound quality was unbearable, I then went with this v-tech 2431 because of high praise from my family, the phone is stupendous, it is much smaller than you might think from looking at the picture up above, the sound quality is great, I even purchased an additional handset for my mother, it is like having your own office or something because you can call each handset from another handset or base. It is better than what the picture depicts, you won't be dissapointed, Get It!! I did
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Summary: This Phone Works Great!
Review: I've owned a number of cordless phones, and none of them has worked as well as the VTech phone. VTech must have fixed any buzzing problem, for the audio sounded incredibly good. The hands-free system works as well as any hands-free system I've ever used. As far as the range goes, you can't use the phone from the community, but I was able to use it from three houses down the block, and it covers my two-story house and 1/4 acre of property without a glitch. The caller ID and voice messages work perfectly on my unit. The only drawback with this unit is the caller ID display uses a small font that can be hard to read.
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Summary: Dissapointed - hoped for the best!
Review: I have been reading up on these multi-handset cordless phones for quite some time now. It finally came down to 2 (the Vtech and the At&t model). I decided to go with the VTech since I thought I read enough positive things about it. This phone is really neat... except... it's got problems! Pros: The speakerphone is awesome. My husband said he couldn't even tell I was on it. I also like the compact size of everything. Easy to use and set up. Easy instructions from the handset. Cons: There is a buzz in the handset, but I thought I'd just get use to it since the phones other features out-weighed the slight buzzing. But... then I noticed that the message waiting indicator light would flash when there were no messages and not flash when there were messages. Very frustrating! There are 6 choices of rings on this phone. Personally, I think they are all obnoxious. I was hoping for a quieter ring (even after lowering the volume on the ring). Honestly, those are my only gripes, but it's enough for me to send the phone back. I've already ordered the At&t model in hopes for a better phone? Oh, one more thing, although I can hear the people fine that are talking to me on the phone, I notice they are having me repeat myself more when talking into the handset (not the speakerphone part).....
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