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Summary: Great funtion and features
Review: I have bought a bunch of different cordless phones over the past several years. These Seimens phones combine the utility of a cell phone with the advantages of a home phone. The handsets are compact and can be carried in a pocket. Reception is outstanding outside but I have experienced slight problems with reception between the base 2120 downstairs and the handset on the second floor about 150 feet away. Otherwise outstanding quality, worth the money.
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Summary: Poor sound quality mars potentially great phone set
Review: I concur with "Electronics fan from NJ" who wrote his review on the 2415 base unit, which I also bought: the sound quality is a big problem. Background hiss, feedback (hear yourself talking), and dropouts.Also, all the phone's features are accessed through soft menus. This very modal behavior is difficult for many users. If my wife wants to turn off the ringer on the handset, well, she just puts it under a pillow! Commonly accessed features need dedicated buttons. I am returning the 2415 and 2400 I bought, and going back to my 900 MHz Panasonic.
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Summary: Outstanding, except for the batteries.
Review: I bought one to go with my base. It is sleek, light weight, and the security features are excellent. The intercom, and call forwarding to individual handsets, are features I most liked about the system. The built-in spare battery charger is nice too. This system has better sound than the two 900MHz SONY units that it replaces. The only drawback was that the batteries that came with it would not charge, even after 24 hours. I bought NiMH batteries to replace them, they have twice the capacity of NiCads.
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Summary: Excellent phone
Review: I bought the 2400 Kit to go along with the 2415 that I bought (phone/answering machine). Easy to set up. Outstanding sound quality. If the battery is completely dead, it charges up completely in about 4 hours. It's the best phone, cordless or corded, that I've ever owned. I don't know what other products Seimens makes, but I'd like to find out!
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Summary: Great phone addition
Review: I bought two of these to accompany my main system phone. Registering it to the base is simple but impossible to do without the main system so no need to worry about someone "tapping in!" It's really simple to program and use the directory features. Great sound quality both form myself and the person to whom I am speaking.
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Summary: Just don't do it.
Review: I am not in the habit of giving bad reviews, but I unfortunately have to in this case. I was an early adopter of the system- it was just perfect for the older house we lived in at the time. The fact that the old house had just a couple of phone outlets had been a real problem before I found this system (I bought the 2415). I hauled out my credit card and bought the system and three extra handsets, very expensive. For about two months, things were great. Even my wife, a noted technophobe, was impressed. THEN....
The great wave of handset failures began. They ALL eventually failed. Understand that these were purchased new (not refurbs) for a LOT of money. Siemens replaced them all more than once, until the original warranty ran out. As soon as the original warranty ran out, it was suddenly not thier problem, even though they agreed that I had not had a functional handset more than a couple of months. Of course, then replacing the handset (one, apparently, doesn't repair these little gems) became prohibitively expensive. The base, as far as I can tell, always worked fine. It still does, I think, but since I have no handset to access it as it sits electronically blind and deaf, I can't really tell.
In summary- the handset is the problem.
Replaced the whole thing with a Panasonic system, which works perfectly. Do that instead
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Summary: poor support from Siemens for this set as it is discontinued
Review: We've had the Gigaset 2420 with 3 wireless units for almost 3 years now. The battery life on the wireless hand sets has been terrible all along, and we've even tried changing the batteries. Now, one of the wireless base stations has starting to die on us. The conversation begins fine, and barely lasts for 20 seconds or so. The quality of voice starts to stutter and gets really..really choppy. Finally to the extent that one has to drop the call. Although its out of warranty, but for the of this system, one would not expect such a poor quality from such an expensive set. Our much inexpensive phones from other manufacturers are still working flawlessly. I would NOT recommend this system to anyone.
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Summary: Don't waste your money!!!
Review: I've owned the base station and four handsets (six if you include the warranty replacements). The handsets are absolutely worthless. They don't stay charged, they click and pop while you're using them and the LED display goes out within the first year. Siemens is still in the cordless phone business, but they won't get another dime out of me! Don't waste your money!!!
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Summary: Horrible Build Quality
Review: I really enjoyed the Gigaset system (base unit with answering machine and one handset) for about 15 months. Over the last few months, however, one handset had become progressively worse with dropped calls and fading while talking (it became unusable a few weeks ago based on comments from others that they couldn't hear me). A few days ago the second handset started to show the same symptoms! This is unacceptable given the price of this system. I have owned a number of Panasonic and AT&T cordless phones over the years and only stopped using them to upgrade, not due to build quality. Siemens is the first cordless system I've had to abandon due to product failure (and the most expensive I've ever owned). Sadly, the Siemens phones are made in the USA (I guess we cannot produce quality electronics in our country any longer). Well, I'm now the happy owner of a vtech 5831 (speaker phone base unit and expansion handset included - with expansion of up to 5 add'l handsets). I know it's early but I did my homework on vtech and feel much more confident given their reputation. While researching I learned that vtech produces AT&T labeled phones and both "brands" are much more highly regarded than Siemens. Check the reviews and you'll see that the vtech 5831 is an outstanding system (especially compared to Siemens); let's just hope it lasts longer.
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Summary: So so phone
Review: I have to say the phones feature set is pretty nice and I do like the ability of expanding the same model thoughout the house with only one base station. I will however say that the couple of refurbished models i have purchased in the past have been nothing but problems. All of them seem to exhibit the same problem after a few months of use. The phones themselves start to lose their ability to keep a charge and even giving it over a day of charging will only give you about 15 minutes of talk time. Please note this is after going through 3 different types of rechargable batteries that are said to work in the book. I have come to the conclusion that the handsets are really the only problem but aside from that the phone works great. I have good reception from within the house and outside but if you choose to buy a refurb beware as most places will only give you 30 days before your warranty expires. Hope this helps,
-Duff
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