Vtech VT 2461 2.4 GHz 1-Line Cordless Phone

Pros: Good voice quality, easy to use, speakerphone on handset
Cons: A few user interface annoyances

This is my fourth cordless phone in as many years, and I think I finally have a keeper! This time, I was looking for a cordless with speakerphone on the handset, an integrated answering machine (since eVoice died!), and preferably wall-mountable....

Pros: Excellent intercom system; Nice styling; Clear display on the handsets; Speakerphone; Price
Cons: Quality?; Lack of centralized caller ID; Speakerphone reception and location

This is an excellent cordless phone, but first and foremost, I must say that the deciding factor in our purchasing this phone was the information we received from user reviews about this and other phones on Epinions. So I would like to thank those users...

Pros: Clear reception, no phone jack required, handsfree feature, stylish
Cons: Caller ID is text-display only

This is the 2002 model of the highly-rated VTech 2.4GHz Digital Spread Spectrum ("Gigaphone") expandable cordless series. It replaces both the VT2431 (reviewed extensively at epinions), incorporating some design improvements, and the stand-alone VT2464...

Pros: handset speaker phone, expandable, nice answering device
Cons: short battery life, inability to name handsets or copy phonebook, no answer handset access.

I owned this phone ever since December '05. It seemed to have have gone a long way for me, and I've been appericiating it. The Phone Itself: Features: Adds on to 4 Handsets Handset to Handset paging, intercom, and transfer Conference ...

Pros: Great price and features, nice size, works great and can add more phones.
Cons: Having to delete caller ID calls from EACH phone.

Wow, I am amazed at how many people have rated this phone system bad. I think that a lot of phone pr ...

Pros: Great Price for 2 phone system. Easy to use.
Cons: Weird behavior when tied into other electronic items.

I bought the 2-phone system at Costco to replace an older 900MHZ unit with built in answering machin ...

Pros: Inexpensive, full-duplex speakerphone in handsets, system works during power outage!
Cons: Inconsistent reception, no central directory, can't name extensions, tiny "soft" button descriptions

I bought the Vtech system (base and three remotes) to replace a fragile and failing Siemens gigaset 2400 system. The Vtech system has a few nice features, but it is still plagued by some of the problems of the Siemens system and it lacks a few really...

Pros: Just everything but the one "gotcha" in "Cons."
Cons: Can't recall a PIN number and dial it during a call.

I was overwhelmed and overjoyed as I opened this baby and proceeded to master its gizmos. But since our family has divorced from AT&T in favor of calling cards, entering long PIN numbers [hopefully from memory] is pretty important to us.

I...

Pros: Excellent Range Mailbox Options Headset available
Cons: Caller ID (rarely) misses a phone number

I've got a VTech VT2461 2.4 w/Digital Answering Machine. There are 3 different "voicemail" boxes, just tell people to hit 1, 2, or 3, and each box has it's OWN password. Handy for roommates or if you have an ad in the paper. I bought it for $130 at ...

Pros: extra handset does not require phone jack to operate
Cons: not reliable. product broke after 8 months

I purchased this product 8 months ago and was generally pleased with how it operated. However, yesterday the answering machine portion broke and when I called Vtech customer service I was informed that this tended to happen often with this model. I was...

Pros: multiple handsets, crystal clear reception, 3 mailboxes, intercom
Cons: no password protection on mailboxes, no dial pad on base

After trying and returning a Panasonic 2.4 Gig system, I thought I would give VTech a try. Bingo! I got it! This phone has a crystal clear reception, and a long battery life. Add in a slightly lower than average price and you have a nice phone setup with...

Pros: Cheap, 2.4 GHz
Cons: After 1.25 years, base unit broke

I liked the phone since it was one of the cheaper ones and it had all the features that we wanted. ...

Pros: Acceptable range for the handsets.
Cons: Answer Machine quite accepting messages and tech support was not able to fix the problem

I liked having more than one handset to place in other rooms that do not have access to a phone line. The range of the handsets was adequate to carry around while doing yard work. The receiver emits interference and I could hear it from my corded phone...

Pros: Excellent feature set. Well-made physical design and layout. Nice small handset.
Cons: Sound quality very poor. Lots of static.

After reading the reviews on Epinions, I was very interested in this phone. I wanted a multi-handset phone with a built-in answering machine base.

We got the phone home and I read through the manual, connected it up, and started to work...

Pros: Clear reception a few feet farther than 900MHz phones.
Cons: Unusable after 6 weeks, the replacement phone has the same problem.

The Replacement phone has the same problem as the first phone- the handset mutes the conversation after about 10 minutes use. A new battery came with the phone. Communications with the extra handset inside my metal shop 90 feet away is still good....