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Product summary
The good: Easy-to-use digital answering machine; three user mailboxes; box includes two phones; handset speakerphone; bright backlit screen and keys; low price.
The bad: Poor battery life; unstable charging position; pointy antenna; two-handset maximum.
The bottom line: This dual-handset system is a decent choice for people on a budget who need a fully featured phone setup.
CNET editors' review
- Reviewed on: 01/21/2005
As with most things, however, you get what you pay for. This bundle suffers from two major flaws. First, the battery life shrivels in a relatively short period of time. And second, you can't add any more phones to the system: what you buy is what you get, which, as we'll point out, isn't entirely logical.
With its two-tone, powder-blue-and-off-white color scheme, this pretty phone would look perfect in the Victorian lace-filled home of a little old lady (although what she'd do with three mailboxes we're not sure). Well spaced and backlit in bright orange, the dial-pad keys, along with a three-line LCD screen, make dialing and using the phone easy, even for folks with less than 20/20 vision.
Those who are accident prone should be wary though: the handset sits uneasily upright in the compact base and is surprisingly easy to knock over. Plus, the short stub antenna comes to a rounded point that could put out an eye.
The feature set is extensive: conference calling, a handset speakerphone, a 50-name/number caller ID and call-waiting caller ID (for subscribers), a 50-name phone book that isn't transferable between handsets, a handset-to-handset intercom, programmable ring and key tones, call transfer between handsets, and memo record on the base. Still, you can't record a call unless you wait for the answering machine to kick in and record it as a message. The digital chip can hold 15 minutes of messages, but there is no way to limit the length of an incoming message. A caller can spend as long as 4 minutes rambling. The machine cuts people off only if there's just 30 seconds left on the chip.
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