Rating: Summary: Terrible, terrible phone Review: Horrible battery life. Returned the first one after a week, but second one was no better. Constantly needs charging and even then I'm lucky to get 1/2 hour of talk time. My old Panasonics were incredible - with regular use I could go 4 or 5 days without charging. Sadly, I don't think the 5.8g's are any better.
Rating: Summary: Worst phone ever Review: I bought this phone because I liked the features and I trust Panasonic. My panasonic products have always performed very well. However, this is the worst phone I have ever owned as well as the most expensive. The battery life is horrible and there is no warning it is about to die. The battery meter can show a full charge and then after just a short while you will be cut off and the phone will be dead. It doesn't even give you a warning beep. Panasonic owes an apology to anyyone who has ever purchased this phone.
Rating: Summary: Good but not Awesome Review: I bought this phone because I was having difficulty with the dialpad of an AT&T expandable cordless phone I owned for 18 months. I have always found Panasonic reliable. Overall this phone is good, but not great. The comments regarding the caller ID are fair - it does often take more than 2 rings (as the instruction manual claims) in order to register the number. Not a fatal flaw for me. The other comment is the audio, while sound quality on the receiving end, I'm told, is great, in the earpiece you'll hear voices at a slightly lower volume than you expect. Again not fatal, but should be better for...
Rating: Summary: Horrible Battery Life Review: I bought this phone since our old, and still working, cordless phone was reliable and also a Panasonic. I even bought an extra handset. Well I haven't had this set but a year and the battery life has gotten horrible. If it's on the charger all night, I get about 45 minutes of talk time before it dies. I am always babysitting this phone by making sure it's on the charger. I never had to do that with the old one, and still don't. I am really disappointed in this product. I spent a lot of money on these phones and it infuriates me that I'll need to go and buy a new set of phones. Only this time it will not be Panasonic.
Rating: Summary: Horrible Battery Life Review: I bought this phone since our old, and still working, cordless phone was reliable and also a Panasonic. I even bought an extra handset. Well I haven't had this set but a year and the battery life has gotten horrible. If it's on the charger all night, I get about 45 minutes of talk time before it dies. I am always babysitting this phone by making sure it's on the charger. I never had to do that with the old one, and still don't. I am really disappointed in this product. I spent a lot of money on these phones and it infuriates me that I'll need to go and buy a new set of phones. Only this time it will not be Panasonic.
Rating: Summary: handset dies Review: I have had two of these where the handset has just died in a matter of weeks. I just read the other comments with the battery life issue but dont know if that is what caused the failures. Other than that the phone is reasonably good and its speakerphone handset feature is pretty useful (though the sound quality is sometimes questionable). Its still a little unnerving to have two of these reasonably expensive phones just malfunction within weeks.
Rating: Summary: Terrible phone Review: I have this phone and its the worst as far as battery life.I thought buying a extra handset would help but that battery life is just as bad.they tell you talk time is so many hours,I am lucky if I get 10 minutes talk time and its dead.I have never been so disappointed in a product like this.For what I payed for this phone it is more hype than anything.Its horrible.I will never buy a panasonic product again.
Rating: Summary: Decent phone, bad caller_id Review: I just returned this phone after owning it for two weeks. The actual phone was decent enough...good layout and good sound. What I hated was the caller_id...for some reason the caller_id only displayed after two or three rings...way too late and not much time before the phone rolled into voicemail. I called Panasonic 1-800 about the slow caller_id and they admitted customers complained about it. They gave me a few setting to try changing on my phone. I performed the suggestions but no change for my slow caller_id...so I returned the phone...
Rating: Summary: caller ID (where are you) Review: I reacently purchased this phone and am going to return it because the caller ID works half the time at best. I called panasonics tech support 3 times with no avail. I had a full charge in the battery and when I took it out it lost its charge immediately,(whats with that?).Oh by the way it only took 24 hrs to recharge it,yes you heard me right 24 HOURS. The sound quality was very good, speaker on hand set work well, but in lieu of the things I mentioned this baby is going back to the store.
Rating: Summary: Great phone with great features! Review: I read some reviews that knocked this phone for short battery life. Nevertheless, because of its extensive features, we purchased the Panasonic KX-TG2700S and two additional "270S" handsets. Although our phone calls generally run 45 minutes or less, we sometimes find ourselves doing two 45-minute calls consecutively. I have had no problems with the battery life whatsoever! The batteries work fine, the menus are easy and intuitive, and the sound is great. Moreover, this telephone system does have some unique features that make it an exceptional deal. Once you program your name & telephone number list into one headset you can transmit the entire list or any one entry to the remaining extensions. This really helps when you have a long list or just need to modify one or two entries. You don't have to run all over the house re-entering data. The phone can also be used as a two-way radio around the house. You cannot call using those headsets while they are radios, however, when you have three sets like I do or use the base to answer calls, it's not an issue. The best feature about this unit is that it does not include a silly digital answering machine. Unfortunately, Panasonic and other manufacturers are making those standard on all 5.8 GHz cordless telephones. For a host of reasons, including electrical power reliability and the use of a dial-up modem in my computer, I use local telephone company voice mail. In this situation, the telephone answering machine can interfere with your phone messages if your home electrical power dies. Although the answering machine on cordless telephones can be selected "OFF", if the electrical power fails, the answering machine defaults to "ON" when power is restored. Your voicemail is then "intercepted" by your answering machine and you have no clue this has happened. Thus, in order to insure you get your messages, you must call two numbers every time. DUMB! This annoying feature is the wave of the future for 5.8 GHz machines and is one feature that should have been left to a mechanical slide switch. If you need a great phone with tons of useful features without an answering machine, better get this one before all cordless phones go to 5.8 GHz.
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