Motorola MD471 2.4 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Speakerphone with Caller ID (Silver)

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Summary: Great features
Review: Great phone with great features. Love the intercom and hands free talking. Make sure though you buy the updated version with improved volume and the 50 number phone book storage can be alphabetized.

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Summary: MD 470 a poor value
Review: I bought the MD 470 and 3 MD 40 extension phones. They have been returned. The sound quality is poor. The hands free volume is weak and unusable. The telephone book memory is awkward to access. The tech support is non-existent. It's off shore and they "have not a clue" as to this product. Save your money, don't buy

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Summary: I hate my phone...does anyone need spare parts for theirs?
Review: I bought this phone because it seemed to have everything I needed, and had good design as well. But I hate this thing! The volume is too low in the handset, and even the speaker sucks. I can't understand what my callers are saying whether they leave a message or are on the phone attempting to have a conversation with me. My friends no longer bother calling me on it because it's just too frustrating for them to hear me saying, "huh?" all the time.

I miss my 900mhz Panasonic.

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Summary: Save two trips to the store
Review: I hate to admit that I bought this phone system.
I bought it because the features looked great. An expandable system with one base unit.
But I was really bummed when I got it home.
You can't hear anyone when they call, and I am not so sure they can hear you. I had it turned up all the way and I was constantly asking people to repeat themselves.
The answering machine is unusable, you can understand about 10% of what is said on a good day.
The earpiece is very uncomfortable and as someone mentioned the menu to use your stored numbers is very clunky.
I almost lost the packaging for these phones and was quite upset that I would have paid that much money for something that was worthless.

It's too bad one star is as low as the scale goes.

I would definitely not recommend this equipment.
I hope Motorola's cell phones are better than this one.



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Summary: Spreading The Word
Review: It's more like a 3.8 out of 5. Overall I like this phone. Pros are ring tones, fast charge, ease of number storage, and speaker phone located on actual phone as well as base. Cons, batterey life is very short - about 45 minutes of talk time and it needs to recharge. Phone volume could stand some improvement (needs to go a little louder) and getting the phone to go from speaker to just the handset needs a little practice. Lost a few calls trying to turn off the speaker.

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Summary: Love the features--not the crackle
Review: The features are great but my previous phone 900 MHz cordless had no background noise at all. The MD471 has an annoying amount of background crackle regardless of where it is placed in the house.

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Summary: you can buy mine on e-bay, if I don't throw it out first.
Review: There are plenty of annoying features with this phone -- battery life is poor, menus confusing, etc. but my biggest complaint is reliability. I have TWO of them, and "menu" buttons are starting to breakdown on both, battery life pathetic on both, and both have poor call quality. Although there is a place to plug in the headset, after a month or so, the headsets wouldn't work in this phone. (the headsets themselves work fine in other phones).

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Summary: you can buy mine on e-bay, if I don't throw it out first.
Review: There are plenty of annoying features with this phone -- battery life is poor, menus confusing, etc. but my biggest complaint is reliability. I have TWO of them, and "menu" buttons are starting to breakdown on both, battery life pathetic on both, and both have poor call quality. Although there is a place to plug in the headset, after a month or so, the headsets wouldn't work in this phone. (the headsets themselves work fine in other phones).