Great Value for Money
Written: Nov 15 '99 (Updated Nov 15 '99)
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Pros: excellent quality and feature set
Cons: flimsy antenna
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| jimNtexas's Full Review: Vtech VT 1920 900 MHz - Cordless Phone |
I bought a VTech 1920c 900mhz spread-spectrum cordless phone at Best Buy for $70 last spring. It was a loss leader, and I had to dig around the phone display to find the last one tucked way in the back.
I won't speak into a traditional low frequency telephone because they are totally insecure. The 900mhz analog phones are better, but I can still sometimes hear them on my Radio Shack scanner.
900mhz digital phones cannot be monitored by conventional means (although The Government can still decode them.)
When I got the phone home I was pleased with the "heft" of the handset. It's very substantial due to the large nicad battery pack. I haven't timed it, but the phone spends a lot of time out of its base and has never run down. Our 11 year old boy uses it all the time and hasn't broken it yet!
The antenna looks flimsy when extended, so I do not extend it. It drops easily into the charging base.
The phone has excellent quality and range. It is as clear as any hard wired phone. Our house is over 2000 square feet, and it works fine everywhere in the house and in our yard.
It has lots of features including caller ID and some others that I have not explored. I do like the page button on the base unit. Unlike a lot of page buttons, when you press this page button the handset will ring until you find it. I've had other cordless phones where it only rang while you were holding the page button, so you couldn't leave the base and search for the handset.
This is a real bargain.
Recommended:
Yes
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Member: Jim Howard
Location: Austin, Tx
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