Recommend me a cordless telephone

[KevF]

Right our old BT cordless handsets are giving up the ghost at home. Started with one losing the ability to dial a '1' and now they're dropping like flies.

From the original 4 we have one working handset.

Any recommendations for a decent quality handset. Needs to have minimum of 3 handsets with decent range and build quality.

Would be great to have 4 then I can get one out in the garage too.

Thanks.

[anonymous-user]

Panasonic every time.

[koolkul]

Just bought Siemens Gigaset C475 - brilliant

[Simpo Two]

Panasonic here, excellent. By coincidence I think they came from fellow PHer DSLiverpool. Also have a Plantronics headset so I can yak away handsfree, ie get on with stuff. (Strange how mobiles all have handfree widgets but not landline units.)

[apguy]

Siemens Gigaset here as well. Consistently good reviews. My own experiance mirrors the great reception and stupendous battery life that others have reported.

[furtive]

garyhun said:

Panasonic every time.

yup

[Dave_ST220]

furtive said:

garyhun said:

Panasonic every time.

yup

+1

[GregE240]

Panasonic. Bought 3 years ago, extra extensions bought, faultless.

[Smiler.]

I'd give the Siemens Gigaset the thumbs up. Even after the mrs managed to put one handset through a lot-temp colours wash, a couple of hours in the airing cupboard later - good as new.

[philmots]

I asked this question a year or two back and was recommended the Gigaset. I went and bought one, it was around £90. It's a lovely looking ornament, who uses landlines :-S !! Still, recommended.

[prand]

we have just bought a set of four Panasonic to replace our aged and awful BT ones. This set is excellent - good sound, good range even in the loft room of a victorian semi. They seemed pretty easy to set up too - you can name each handset so it's easier to page and keep in the right room.

Price was good I thought, around £89 for four handsets and a base unit from Amazon. I bought ours for the answer phone which is really easy to use - access and manage messages from any handset. And also for the 2.5mm headset jack on each unit which I use for conference calls. Very handy.

Good though they are reported, I didn't want to spend lots of £££ on the Siemens phones. Panasonic seem to fit the bill perfectly, and they have done.

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Dave_ST220 said:

furtive said:

garyhun said:

Panasonic every time.

yup

+1

Have they improved their god awful interface? Had some a few years back, and technically they were great, but really unnecessarily horrible to use

[mikees]

Simpo Two said:

Panasonic here, excellent. By coincidence I think they came from fellow PHer DSLiverpool. Also have a Plantronics headset so I can yak away handsfree, ie get on with stuff. (Strange how mobiles all have handfree widgets but not landline units.)

Hi mate. Which plantronics and panasonic?

Has anyone hot a handsfree home conference phone?

[Pints]

Glad this thread has come along. Our uberst Binatone lasts less than 5 minutes on a call owing to the battery (have tried a new battery).

I'll be seeing what I can get from Panasonic or Siemens. Thanks, chaps.

[KevF]

many thanks for the replies....much appreciated.

Basically all I have to do now is decide between the Panasonic and the Siemens......



As we seem to have a fair bit of Panasonic kit already, it would be rude not to try the Siemens...;)

[Legmaster]

Another vote for the Siemens C475 Gigaset here.

Needed to get rid of a crappy BT handset and the Siemens had consistent high reviews.

Easy to set up, easy to use, good range and excellent battery life. Downside is awful selection of ringtones (think nasty polyphonic mobile stuff) with only one that sounds remotely like a phone ring...

£145 for the 4 handset version from here, (no affiliation, just a good service plug).
http://www.cordless-phones.uk.com/cordless-phones/...

[ChrisnChris]

philmots said:

I asked this question a year or two back and was recommended the Gigaset. I went and bought one, it was around £90. It's a lovely looking ornament, who uses landlines :-S !! Still, recommended.

We still use a landline, anyway, I'd be happy to take it off your hands. Let me know how much you want for it. Are there any other handsets or just the one, we have 4 at the moment which is OK....just.
The mobile signal round here is rubbish.

[stevensdrs]

I have an i-dect 4 handset with answerphone on the base and internal calling between the handsets. Works great and purchased from makro for about £50.00

[Simpo Two]

mikees said:

Hi mate. Which plantronics and panasonic?

The Plantronics looks like this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plantronics-CS60-Wireless-... but must be an earlier version as IIRC mine was about £80 and has no USB.

The handsets are also no longer current but say 'KX-TCA132'. Looks a bit like this http://olladina.bit2u.biz/en/telephones/radiotelep...

Takes a while to figure out how to get them to see each other - the headset takes the next extension number - and of course the headset has no number keys so I dial the number on a handset first, then transfer to headset while it's connecting.

[netherfield]

Siemens Gigaset S685,4 phones and have been faultless.