This phone is well on it’s way to being my favorite, but it’s not perfect. It has some features I like, and I’m sure if you read most the reviews, you’ll hear all about them, so I won’t bother telling you about every little thing I like.
This phone is great because Costco sells them cheap. Hooray! They’re great because of what they are – hands-free and cordless. Again, woo-hoo! They’re great because their one of the few hands-free phones that is loud enough that you can hear people on the other end of the line, and picks up your voice well enough that they can hear you okay. One more time, yay!
This phone really stinks because of a couple silly problems:
First, Megahertz, schmegahertz! This phone has no better clarity or range than any other cordless phone I’ve ever used. I really don’t care that it’s a 900mhz phone. I don’t think it matters in the slightest.
Second, the belt clip is virtually useless. It won’t stay put no matter where I put the thing. I like the phone because I can type at my computer with the phone sitting in my lap. When I want to do something else, I have to wear a belt-pack or put it in a pocket with a button or zipper.
Third, the charger/stand only works as a charger. The silly headset hanger than comes with the unit is so outrageously awkward to use that I threw it away. I just let the cord lie on the table beside the phone, which is a pain in the butt because I can’t put things on the table next to the phone.
Fourth, the cord tends to break after a while. I had my phone for about two months and the headset cord started to break off right where it enters the radio. Maybe I’m just stupid, but then again, maybe they should have put a rubber grommet right there where the cord tends to break. Every other manufacturer seems to have figured that out. Are they stupid? You decide that when your cord breaks.
I’m lucky because I’m capable of fixing the cord when it breaks. For those of you who think they know how, it requires that you take the whole thing apart with a particularly small screwdriver, unsolder the wires, trim a few inches off the cord, VERY carefully remove the old plastic insert, reattach the insert further up the cord, strip the wires and re-solder them to the circuit board. Think you’ve got that under control? Good.
Fifth, the mechanism that holds the battery in place is inadequate. On the plus side, you can drop the phone pretty hard without breaking it, on the downside the battery pops out pretty easily, even when you just bump it firmly. The positive side to this is that if you put the battery back in, and pick up the phone, the other person will still be there if they don’t hang up.
Sixth, the phone takes forever to connect when you turn it on. With most other phones, you get a dial tone immediately. With this phone, you have to wait a couple seconds – just long enough that the answering machine will pick up before you do.
Seventh, the phone hangs up when you put it in the charger. This is both good and bad, and as long as you don’t put the phone in the charger when you’re talking, it’s okay. For whatever reason, people tend to do that anyway. The other side of this is that there is really no reason why you need to put it in the charger. Despite LONG conversations, I’ve never drained the battery in that phone. I’ve drained VERY few other batteries in other phones, but this phone promotes long conversations, so you’d think draining the battery would be a problem. Yippie! It’s not a problem.
Eighth, it promotes long conversations. Expect a big phone bill. Expect lots of complaints that you’re always on the phone. Expect to get a sore throat from talking too much.

To sum it up, expect that if you can survive all the problems this phone has, you will enjoy it very much.
It’s almost great phone. I hope they make the next version better.




Recommended: Yes