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Siemens 242 2.4 GHz Cordless Phone with Caller ID (Black)

Siemens 242 2.4 GHz Cordless Phone with Caller ID (Black)

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: nice simple phone...but
Review: The LCD or key pad does not have a light. Really inconvenient for low light use. Sound is OK, both sending and receiving.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great design, but little pricey
Review: This is a great phone with great reception. I had for about 3 months now and there isn't any problems with it. The battery lasted quit a while after each charge. The design of the phone make it a really cool hign tech product to have in your home. I like the fact that there is no antenna. The only down-side of this phone is the price. This is more expensive compare to other 2.4 ghz phone out there. However, I highly recommend it to those willing to pay the price.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: this one's going back...
Review: This phone is quite different from other cordless phones on the market, but not necessarily in good ways. it's super small, which would seem great until trying to do the hands-free shoulder cradle thing. the design is sleek and there's no antenna sticking out, but ergonomics suffer. the biggest factor in returning this is the sound quality. it has 2.4 ghz but neither i nor my callers could tolerate all of the static. unfortunately i didn't research this enough -- after reading various product reviews, i'm going to send it back and try a sanyo or panasonic.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Right price, terrible performance
Review: This phone may look good, but it has few, if any, strengths that set it apart from the competition. Poor battery life: one day at best (with regular use); two days standby if you're lucky. Decent reception, but nothing like panasonic phones. I use this in a dorm, and my old panasonic 2.4 ghz phone allowed me to roam downstairs to the basement from my fifth floor room with no loss in sound quality. I now hear static on the far side of my room. Caller ID is poor at best: it usually displays "Incoming Call" instead of a number. No flash option. No option for a headset. No belt clip included. My advice: go get a panasonic phone.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It's okay but...
Review: We like the phone and how easy it is to use, but the volume to hear the caller is not adjustable. Sometimes the caller sounds faint and we have to be in a relatively quite environment to hear.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This phone eats batteries
Review: While this phone basically does what it advertises to do, it fails to impress because of a certain amount of thoughtlessness in the details.

For example, it is, in fact, imbued with a reliable caller ID service, speed dialing, and a helpful caller log. But the LED screen isn?t backlit. As a result all those neat features aren?t usable at night, when you perhaps need them most. Likewise, its small size at first seems a convenience?until you remember that comfort is more important in a home phone than portability. Bigger phones are better around the house, where you tend to want a phone you can actually rest on your shoulder.

But its bigger offenses, I think, have to do with the way it performs its most basic functions: power and reception.

It requires much more recharge time on the base than much older phones, and that charge evaporates quite quickly?even when the phone is not in active use. Worse, my particular unit?and maybe all of them--doesn?t reliably snap into the base. It?s possible to put the phone in the cradle and yet not have the contacts touch. As a result, the phone could spend hours in the cradle without recharging at all.

Its reception, too, is baffling. While does have a fair range, it seems to pick up background noise more clearly than the sound of my voice--clearly the opposite of how you want a phone to work.

I don?t mean to sound too negative, here. Most of the time it works like it?s supposed to. But I can?t help feeling if it had been tweaked with a little more market research, Seimens might have come up with a more practical product.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Good feature set marred by unexpected inconveniences
Review: While this phone basically does what it advertises to do, it fails to impress because of a certain amount of thoughtlessness in the details.

For example, it is, in fact, imbued with a reliable caller ID service, speed dialing, and a helpful caller log. But the LED screen isn't backlit. As a result all those neat features aren't usable at night, when you perhaps need them most. Likewise, its small size at first seems a convenience-until you remember that comfort is more important in a home phone than portability. Bigger phones are better around the house, where you tend to want a phone you can actually rest on your shoulder.

But its bigger offenses, I think, have to do with the way it performs its most basic functions: power and reception.

It requires much more recharge time on the base than much older phones, and that charge evaporates quite quickly-even when the phone is not in active use. Worse, my particular unit-and maybe all of them--doesn't reliably snap into the base. It's possible to put the phone in the cradle and yet not have the contacts touch. As a result, the phone could spend hours in the cradle without recharging at all.

Its reception, too, is baffling. While does have a fair range, it seems to pick up background noise more clearly than the sound of my voice--clearly the opposite of how you want a phone to work.

I don't mean to sound too negative, here. Most of the time it works like it's supposed to. But I can't help feeling if it had been tweaked with a little more market research, Seimens might have come up with a more practical product.


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