Rating: Summary: Keep a charge, Please! Review: Phone has great features, particularly fond of the speakerphone in the handset. But,could not get more than 30 minutes of talk time before battery would die. Contacted Panasonic customer service, they stated, "We recognize a problem with the battery compartment of this phone." The solution was a pair of adhesive backed-felt pads. This was to help the battery make better contact to the positive and negative posts. I gave it 10 days and several charging cycles of the battery, and still no better than when I began.
Rating: Summary: Piece of crap Review: Problems I have had with this phone:Display on the phone randomly stops working and I either have to take out and replace the battery (which then results in a drained charge) or keep replacing on the charger until it come back. Either way it's a huge inconvenience. Reception is unpredictable at best. Sometimes it comes in great and sometimes it comes in lousy... kind of something I would expect in a cordless, although with a 2.4ghz I expected better... but really it doesn't seem like the cordless technology has made any leaps and bounds in the last 10+ years. If I place it on the table in speaker mode and don't place extremely gentle the phone shuts off. Features are ok.... it's kind of a pain to delete calls in the caller ID. Not the best phone I coudl have spent the money on. Now that I have had it a while I wish I had done a little more research, since this was an impulse buy. Stay away from this thing...
Rating: Summary: Had to return it Review: Seems like it is getting tougher all the time to find a cordless phone that works really well. I own another panasonic so I felt confident this one would be ok. But I kept getting complaints from people I called that I sounded distant or like I was inside a barrel. Then there were clicks and I was told I kept breaking up. The final problem was the design of the handset... somehow just couldn't get a comfortable fit with my ear. Seems like they design phones without even considering that someone has to hold the thing against an ear for what may be long periods of time. So had to return it and try another.
Rating: Summary: No Charge Review: This is a great phone with one exception - it can't keep a charge. After owning this phone for about 7 months, a 30 minute conversation seems to drain it. Being that keeping a charge is the most essential function of a cordless phone, all of it's other nice features are useless. A waste of $$$$$$.
Rating: Summary: Excellent Phone Review: This is an excellent phone, all the features are easy to use, and the nicest one, Caller IQ, allows you to download the weather and stock info and the winning lottery numbers right onto your phone. I have had this phone for many months now, and have not encountered a single problem. Setup is simple, along with everything else. This is a great phone for someone who wants something easy to use with lots of features.
Rating: Summary: No Problems.. Yet Review: This is the best cordless phone I've ever owned. I've had none of the battery problems that others have noted and have had mine for 4 months. Just in case, I have followed Jon Scott's advice below and slipped some paper inside the battery compartment to ensure a better charging connection. The ringer isn't as loud as many others depending on the ringer sound you select. Since there are at least 10 different ringer sounds, experiment. The sound of a normal phone ringing annoys me so I have mine set to sound more like a doorbell and I find that one quite loud enough to hear anywhere in my home. The other features are very convenient (Caller ID, phone call tracking, a large memory for your saved phone numbers). I have no complaints at all with this phone.
Rating: Summary: will not hold charge Review: This phone has some greate features. The only problem is that you cannot make use of them if the phone does not work. This phone will not hold charge. I leave it in the charger all night, make one 15 minute call and then it either just dies or the battery shows that there is no charge left, and this is with a new battery. The other thing that I noticed while troubleshoting is that if you remove a fully charged battery, and then place it back in to the phone... it shows as almost completely empty.... like I said it would be a great phone, but there is something very wrong with this design.
Rating: Summary: Great Phone Review: This phone is great. It has some really great features that will use and enjoy. This is a good quality phone at a great price.
Rating: Summary: After 3 months - battery degrades and is unusable Review: This phone started out fine in August when the phone was first purchased. The phone would last a good couple hours off the cradle in an idle mode. However, now a single 5-10 minute phone call , after charging overnight, will inexplicably kill the phone, and the call, leading to an unusable product. Panasonic support wishes to charge me money to have the unit looked at - which I refuse to do , given I think the product should work correctly. Based upon other peoples feedback and experiences - I think this series of phones from Panasonic(2237/2247/2257) have a design issue that needs to be addressed - or better yet Recalled. Do not purchase this phone.
Rating: Summary: Only if I read the review first... Review: ~I bought this phone when it just came on the market and there was no reviews available back then. I bought it becuase it was a good looking unit and it was Panasonic. I have had it for a year. I have to say..all the negative reviews about the ring, the battery and the charge are 100% true. I experienced them all plus many others... I just put mine back to the charger. I was so fed-up with it and decided to write this reiview (something I've wanted to do for a long time). If you are thinking~~ of buying this phone, please reconsider..unless the apperance is your most important consideration. It IS a sleek looking phone.~
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