Best Cordless Phone?

[toasty]

I'm after a couple of cordless phones (one for upstairs, one for down) but don't want them to break 5 minutes after the warranty runs out.

I'm not fussed about lots of features, an answerphone would be nice but that's about it.

Any recommendations?

[Deva Link]

Anything from Panasonic.

[parapaul]

I'd be interested to hear recommendations too - I have had nothing but trouble with cordless phones for years cheap, expensive, branded, unbranded, digital, analogue... All hiss and crackle, and end up with some kind of electronics fault within a year or so.

[cjs]

I have always bought BT phones, never had a problem with them.

[JeepJunkie]

Yup Panasonic, best by far

[twingo100]

Becom 2, had mine fo r 6 year now, no problems at all.

http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=457

[jep]

I've got a setup with 4 Siemens Gigaset S675 handsets. I can update the contact details on one, and then update all handsets remotely. It can also be used as a room monitor, and the usual internal calling etc. There is 1 common SMS inbox, and an additional 3 personalised SMS boxes apparently, but I've never used them! The range is quite good, not quite as far as the other end of the street, but it definitely works a number of houses away!

I've had them for 2 yrs, and not a sniff of anything going wrong, or worn keys or anything to suggest they aren't as good as when I first got them.

[Simpo Two]

I bought my first cordless system 3-4 years ago and chose Panasonic. Brilliant, the only niggle being that the shared memory only has 10 spaces (yet each handset has 99, odd).

Later I wanted an extra handset, found one on eBay and it found the others perfectly - amazing! I even have a Plantronics headset which talks to them.