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Summary: SO Disappointed with Phone and Company
Review: ... It was still in the factory sealed package - brand new, never opened. I can't take it back of course and I wouldn't sell it to someone else because it is a piece of junk. Panasonic will not fix it or let me return it because I do not have a receipt.The problems are like everyone else says.... the volume is too low and the white noise makes it even worse. I have two young children and the house is never quiet enough to hear on any of these handsets. The house really has to be completely quiet in order to use these phone. I have to use the headset in order to hear... My FIL wears a hearing aid and cannot use these phones at all! When he is here he has to use our cell phones. I would use the speaker phone but it cuts in and out and so it is worthless also. Panasonic is completely unsympathetic. They told me to disconnect the phones, leave them off for one minute, clean the connectors. I did that, but it didn't make a difference. I also charged the phone up originally in the proper manner that someone else mentioned. My phones are not near any other electrical appliances. Nope, it's just a piece of junk. I read the reviews on Amazon but thought I could get past the complaints because all the phones seemed to have some complaints. I figured this one had the fewest. So believe me when I say, DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE.
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Summary: SO Disappointed with Phone and Company
Review: ... It was still in the factory sealed package - brand new, never opened. I can't take it back of course and I wouldn't sell it to someone else because it is a piece of junk. Panasonic will not fix it or let me return it because I do not have a receipt. The problems are like everyone else says.... the volume is too low and the white noise makes it even worse. I have two young children and the house is never quiet enough to hear on any of these handsets. The house really has to be completely quiet in order to use these phone. I have to use the headset in order to hear... My FIL wears a hearing aid and cannot use these phones at all! When he is here he has to use our cell phones. I would use the speaker phone but it cuts in and out and so it is worthless also. Panasonic is completely unsympathetic. They told me to disconnect the phones, leave them off for one minute, clean the connectors. I did that, but it didn't make a difference. I also charged the phone up originally in the proper manner that someone else mentioned. My phones are not near any other electrical appliances. Nope, it's just a piece of junk. I read the reviews on Amazon but thought I could get past the complaints because all the phones seemed to have some complaints. I figured this one had the fewest. So believe me when I say, DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE.
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Summary: Big Money But Small Sound
Review: After doing a lot of internet research and reading other reviews of similar type phones, I purchased this model locally. It had all the features - answering machine, expandable to 4 handsets (I bought all 4) speakerphone in the handsets, and caller ID. I wasn't happy about the price, but need this type of system and have found Panasonic equipment to be reliable. This phone has a major tech problem with the sound volume during a call. You can manually adjust the volume while on the phone, however, even after adjusting all 4 handsets, the volume was so low we were straining to hear the person! I contacted Panasonic thinking there was a way to "tweak" it - after all - I just spent over ...on this baby - and they flat out said - there's no way to adjust the volume. If you live in an area where your phone company has switched to a low voltage type system - usually in highly populated areas that are more technically advanced, then you are out of luck. Apparently there's not enough voltage in the phone line to boost the volume. You'll need bionic hearing to use it on a regular basis, unless you exclusively use the speakerphone. I'm taking mine back and trying another brand.
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Summary: Stay Away
Review: Extremely disappointed with this product. The handset volume is too low, even though the setting is set to receive the maximum volume. The handset speakerphone performed ok initially, but since is practically inoperable. The slightest backround noise cancels conversation with the other end and replaces talk with silence. Impossible to rest the phone on a shoulder to talk without depressing the off button on your cheek. The handset is a little small. No problems with answering machine. Fortunately I never purchased additional handsets for the unit. I wanted this phone to perform considering I took my time researching several products and thought I selected a good one. I defended my choice for a while, although every person who used the phone had their complaints about volume, etc. Should have listened to them and returned while I had the chance, however I did not use the phone much to form an solid opinion.
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Summary: Low Volume = Low Voltage
Review: I agree with Stacy, if you live in a large city and have a telco that uses low volage, do not purchase this phone. I can't even get a dial tone in one room, in another room the reception is fuzzy. Went through the whole nine yards with Panasonic tech support and, it seems, there is nothing I can do about this problem.
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Summary: Waste of Time
Review: I brought this phone system and an additional handset. It had good features and I had a Panasonic Cordless phone/answerer (47mhz) for about 9 years that was trouble free and good for its time. So, I figured I couldn't lose with Panasonic's 2.4 ghz system. I charged the handsets up and tested the system out. What an incredible disappointment! The loudest volume setting was barely adequate. After conducting a test between the new 2.4 ghz phone and the old 49mhz Panasonic, I found that the clarity, signal strength, and functioning distance of my old cordless phone was better than the new one--that's right better than the new one! I e-mailed Panasonic customer service asking them how that could be? Their first reply was an automated message which informed me where I could get a copy of the manual. I didn't ask for nor need a manual! When I emailed them again I got a second response thanking me for my input. It was as if no living person actually read the email. I promptly returned the Panasonic phone system and will never purchase another one from that company. In part because of the poor product performance and also the lack of a genuine response from a living, rather than automated, customer sales "representative" If you are considering purchasing this or a similar Panasonic cordless phone, I strongly recommend that you do not waste your time. Check out the Siemen's cordless system. That's whay I'm going to do.
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Summary: Great phone that has gotten a bad rap...
Review: I have spent the last few weeks trying to find a phone that I really liked. I wanted to find one with many features, yet still be of good quality. That is not an easy task... I have tried various phones from Vtech, Motorola and Siemens. So far, this phone has been the best in features, user friendliness, and quality. It seems many people have given it a one star rating. This is just so wrong. I normally would of given it a four star rating, but I boosted to five only to give this phone a better average. The low scores were not fair to it... Let me first address the volume issues that some many people have complained about. Yes, there is a way to adjust the volume loudness on the handset despite what some others have said. I will agree that even at the highest setting it is *slighty* a little low but it is nowhere near as bad as what everyone else has said. I have no problems hearing the calls. I think the main problem is getting the speaker to line up with your ear correctly. This phone has a very small footprint. It is similar in size to a small/medium sized cell phone. I have used some cell phones that were small and it was hard to line up the speaker correctly until you got used to it. If you do not have the speaker in the *sweet spot* it is of course going to sound to low. There is also the issue of low voltage in your area. I cannot comment on this issue. I live in a small town so perhaps I am not affected by the low voltage, low volume problem. The range of this phone is better than any other 2.4 ghz I have thus tested. The handset features a nice feature called "range extender". It can be set to off/on/auto. It will drain your battery quicker when enabled but if you keep it on auto it will only come on when you need a signal boost. The answering machine recording quality is not great, but it is adequate. It features three mailboxes and is easy to use. Overall, I am happy with this phone. It is better than the vtech model that looks similar to it. If you decide to buy one, just make sure that you can return it easily in case you have issues with the volume on the handset. I do not have any issues with it so far. Very nice phone!
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Summary: Great phone. Really. It just has volume control.
Review: I originally bought this Panasonic and returned it because of poor sound quality. But before I returned it, I purchased the new V-tech model available for $... at target. It had all the same features, and I was going to compare the two. They are the *exact* same phone. Same display, same menus, same rings, even the synthesized voice on the voicemail system is the same. There is a curious difference though, the V-tech has way better sound quality. Don't throw your money away on the Panasonic. But the V-tech for less and get better sound. I opened up the phone, and the components are the same. Panasonic and V-tech are probably just buying these from a 3rd party, putting custom cases on them, and reselling them. Maybe the V-tech has a better speaker and mic though, because it's much better sounding.
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Summary: It's a VTECH!
Review: I originally bought this Panasonic and returned it because of poor sound quality. But before I returned it, I purchased the new V-tech model available for $... at target. It had all the same features, and I was going to compare the two. They are the *exact* same phone. Same display, same menus, same rings, even the synthesized voice on the voicemail system is the same. There is a curious difference though, the V-tech has way better sound quality. Don't throw your money away on the Panasonic. But the V-tech for less and get better sound. I opened up the phone, and the components are the same. Panasonic and V-tech are probably just buying these from a 3rd party, putting custom cases on them, and reselling them. Maybe the V-tech has a better speaker and mic though, because it's much better sounding.
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Summary: Great phone, but limited features
Review: I purchased this phone and an additional handset for home use and found it to be good quality and easy to use. The range of the phone and the clarity were very good, but there were a couple of drawbacks. First, there is not a speaker phone in the base unit, so if the handset is somewhere else, it cannot be answered at the base unit. In addition, if I hadn't purchased the additional handset, the intercom feature is useless since the base unit does not have a speaker phone. The only other issue I had was that if we chose to use our local telephone provider's voice mail, there isn't a voice mail indicator light (the model 1000N does provide this). I really liked the phone, but ended up returning it for a model that has the speaker phone in the base unit.
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