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Summary: Best Cordless Phone
Review: This is the best cordless phone I have bought. Its built for a little rough use. No need to worry if you drop it once in a while. The caller ID on both the handset and the base is easy to read. Sound quality is excellent and range is good. Since the base and handset can be used seperately, conference calls are easy. Easy to setup and the menu is easy to use.
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Summary: This phone is a tank.
Review: I have dropped this phone on concrete, and used it in the shower. It still sounds as good as new.The most outstanding features about this phone are: 1. Incredible range. I can drive around my block (in San Francisco) and not lose the signal until the end of the block. I'm not sure if this is typical. The salesman at Tweeter said, "this phone will overpower all the other phones in your apartment complex. And isn't that what it's all about?" 2. Sound quality. Indistinguishable from a land line. Have not experienced interference. Volume levels are generous- Loud and clear at the lowest handset level, up to painfully loud at the highest speakerphone volume. 3. Features. Very good sounding full duplex speaker phone in the base. A fully functioning phone in the base- great when you want to call customer service and hold for 45 minutes while doing your work. The usual caller ID, user directory, and digital answerer functions. 4. Ease of use. Voice menus, screen menus are clear and functional. Display scrolls quickly, updates quickly. No need to read the manual here. Very sensibly laid out and efficient. Ignore what the other reviewer said about being complex. This is as simple as it gets. A complicated phone would be the Siemens 4215, which you should not buy. 5. Quality. You can abuse this phone without worry. Downsides: 1. This phone gets a little warm with continued use. Use a handsfree headphone or headset if you talk for a long time. 2. It looks a little like a pokemon character with the twin antennas in the base. There are really no other serious criticisms. You'll be very happy owning and using this phone, and it should last a good while.
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Summary: Best cordless I have owned
Review: I have owned this phone for more than a year and it is the best cordless I have owned. The audio quality and volume are great. The user interface is intuitive.
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Summary: >>--Not good for the money--<<
Review: I bought the phone because of all the features I was reading about, turns out it was the worst phone I have for the money! The speakerphone acts totally dependent of the handset. If you turn the ringer off on the handset, the ringer on the speakerphone turns off. I program friends/family phone #'s in the handset and when they call, the handset doesn't give me the programmed name with the number, but the caller ID name instead. Sprint's phone is excellent with this feature! Panasonic's sound quality is excellent though! And I love the look! But I'm not willing to spend $... on the look and sound alone! Also, they should make a phone that will not hang up on your party when you want to hold the phone between your head and shoulders to talk. I will be returning this phone to purchase a Siemens, I'm hoping I don't have to write a 2 star review on them. It's 2002 Panasonic, where are you!
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Summary: Better than people are saying, but a couple drawbacks
Review: I'm not sure why the other reviews of this phone are so negative - the battery life is great in my experience and the sound quality is quite good (though microwave does cause interferance). I think the handset is not comfortable/ergonomic for big hands, but that's true of nearly all phones nowadays. The lack of a backlit base display is annoying - the screen is unreadable unless in direct light. Also annoying is the process for accessing stored phone numbers. It's very similar to how you access recent callers with the caller ID features. You have to scroll through too many steps to get to a stored number. It takes longer than dialing the number from the keypad. Whatever happened to good old two-digit speed dial? All in all, though it's a decent phone. The range is tremendous so if you plan to haul the phone all over the yard or to the neighbor's house, this is the phone for you.
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Summary: Don't believe the bad reviews!!!
Review: I've had this phone for 2 years. Some of the reviews on here are way of base. 1. Yes the battery died after a year. Went to [the store], bought a six d-o-l-l-a-r battery that had more mAmps than the orginal Panasonic. Now the phone stays off the charger for days. ANY cordless will need the battery replaced every year or so (unless it has MiMh). 2. Out of range problem? I suspect that most of these people don't realize that everything from Microwave ovens to Wireless Home Networks can cause problems with .4Ghz phones in general. My microwave doesn't, but there are plenty that do. Yes, I've seen "Out of Range" from time to time. It's got nothing to do with distance usually...just move to a different location and the phone comunication will readjust. I can't believe people call this a show stopper. It's very very rare. 3. Sound quality is excellent and handset is rock solid. 4. Speaker phone is so-so. 5. Answering machine is good, but ease of use is not. 6. NO MUTE ON HANDSET!!!! What on Earth were they thinking?!?! This is a very good phone, but not worth the full retail price. In other words, get it on sale if you can.
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Summary: Piece of Junk
Review: I bought this phone a year ago and I end up changing the battery already once. The battery was discharging so fast and recently I stopped using the handset completely. Eventhough I charge it whole night, it is not getting charged. The warranty service is also very bad. Fortunately I bought this phone using my Visa Platinum and they covered the full price. Thanks to Visa.
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Summary: Good for one year
Review: If you are the perosn who changes phone every year, then this is the one. It will start die exaclty after one year as pre-programmed.
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Summary: Overall a Great Phone
Review: I've had this phone for just about two years. I have yet to have a problem with the battery on this phone but I don't constantly keep it off the base. What I like best about this phone is that I can take it up the street to my neighbor's back yard in the summer and get great reception. My neighbor couldn't believe that my phone worked over there. The only complaints I have are that my microwave does interfere with my conversations a little and early on people couldn't hear me loud. The sound was soft. I adjusted it and no one's complained in over a year. I've found this to be a great little phone but now I am looking to purchase a system with expandable handsets since another old phone of mine has had it and this panasonic is the only phone in the house I have right now that works.
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Summary: A little disappointed
Review: I've had this phone for a couple of years. I was impressed with the battery life for the first year, but after using it with the recommended Plantronics headset, it no longer allows me to use it without the headset. Its as if it thinks the headset is plugged in all the time. The headset also causes it to crackle so the sound quality is not so good. The battery has worn out to the point where it only holds a charge for half an hour. Although I heard great things about this phone before I bought it - a friend of mine even dropped his in the toliet and it worked fine once it dried out - I expected more. I had a uniden before that and felt worked better, longer, although the battery life on that was not impressive.
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