Sony SPP-N1025 900 MHz Cordless Phone

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Summary: Will Never buy another Sony phone
Review: ...P>The features and the look are always very nice and they're all sturdy and durable but they lack the most important part: FUNCTIONALITY!!!

This phone would not even let me place calls at times, it beeps and a message that reads something like "NO CONNECTION" appears on the screen eventough I'm standing right next to the base, and even when I do manage to get a connection the reception is terrible.

Believe me on this one, I'm a big fan of Sony products but do yourself a favor and look elsewhere when buyin telephones. ...

Rating:
Summary: Will Never buy another Sony phone
Review: I'm an addict of Sony products, I can't buy any electronic other than Sony but this will be the last phone that I ever buy from them. I've bought 3 cordless phones from Sony at different times and I am convinced that they DO NOT know how to make a phone with quality reception.

The features and the look are always very nice and they're all sturdy and durable but they lack the most important part: FUNCTIONALITY!!!

This phone would not even let me place calls at times, it beeps and a message that reads something like "NO CONNECTION" appears on the screen eventough I'm standing right next to the base, and even when I do manage to get a connection the reception is terrible.

Believe me on this one, I'm a big fan of Sony products but do yourself a favor and look elsewhere when buyin telephones,...

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Summary: Excellent Reception
Review: We've had this phone since January 2002, and the Sony SPP-N1025 has been a very reliable cordless phone. Reception couldn't be better. No matter where in the house, or how far out in the yard I am, reception is excellent. I've never once heard an echo, or had a "no connection" prompt. Reception is as good as with a corded phone. You have a choice of 4 types of ringers. Basically, its soft to shrill loud. We have ours set on ringer #3, right in the middle - not too shrill, not too soft, just right. If you like your phones to play those annoying songs instead of ringing, look elsewhere. Just for the record, this phone does not have an answering machine.

I can't help but believe that anyone who gets a "no connection" prompt standing next to the base, has their base sitting or mounted near something in their house they should not have it near. The owner's manual names places where the base should not be placed. It states that you should not place the base near or on a TV, VCR, personal computer, heat source, direct sunlight, microwave, noise source such as a window with heavy traffic outside, another cordless phone, away from excessive moisture, extremely low temperatures, dust, mechanical vibration, or shock.

The only reason I don't give this phone 5 stars is because some of the pixels have been cutting out in the caller ID. Its not enough to keep me from identifying names and numbers, but enough to be annoying. That could be due to the battery pack getting low. I plan to buy a new one soon. If the pixels are all working in the caller ID after I get the new batteries in the handset, I will edit my review to show 5 stars.

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Summary: Great quality and some really nice features
Review: You've gotta hand it to Sony... they really know how to make any electronic gadget not only look cool, but also out-function others in its class.

I was tempted to buy a slightly cooler-looking VTech phone, but I remembered how I've had two VTech phones in the past that were totally worthless within months due to declining sound quality.

It's not only uncomfortable, but unwise to crane and crook your neck for long periods of time while trying to hold a phone receiver with your chin so you can use both hands.

To battle this problem, this phone not only includes a clip and a headphone jack, the internal circuitry makes the sound quality absolutely fantastic when a good headset is used. I used this phone with the new headset (not included) and called my folks... they said they could hear me great and had no idea I was using a hands-free device.

The base includes a high-quality speaker-phone that allowed me to be on the other side of a 12x12 foot room and have a conversation with my folks without any conversation being dropped off as long as I faced the unit. The noise-cancelling feature means that if you turn your head so that your back is facing the microphone, your voice will be ignored and not be picked up on the other end.

The "jog lever" is a misnomer... it is really just an up/down toggle switch. The term can make folks think this is a spinning jog wheel, which it isn't.

My less than perfect rating comes from the fact that deleting a selection on CallerID takes 4 steps. Press, jog, press, confirm. And it beeps loudly on each step! There is no way to turn the annoying step-by-step beeping off.

Despite that annoyance, this phone has a really cool feature... you can take your phone out in the yard and someone in the house can press the intercom button on the base and you don't just get a page beep, you can actually talk walkie-talkie style (with full duplexing) from phone to base.

There is not only a light on the base to tell you that you've got a new call, but it even tells you if you have a new voicemail message (only if you're subscribed to a voicemail service). Like other portables, the base station has a red led indicator letting others know when you're on the phone.

The base and handset have separate ring controls. The handset has 4 separate ring-tones... they really aren't that different sounding, but rather ring at different beat-rates... loud & slow to fast & soft.

You can manually set the time and date, but this is set automatically by your first phone call if you have callerID service.

The phone can rest face down or face up. Naturally, face-up is preferred, because this allows you to view the callerID before picking up the phone... but you can not lay the phone in the cradle face up if the belt clip is attached. This was a major oversight by Sony... they usually think of everything and this was bad planning.

This is far from perfect, but compared to other cordless phones in this category and price range, this is a gem in the top of its class.