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I currently have vtech phones .. expensive and great for the first year .. now they lose calls on a regular basis – phone just goes dead – and vtech’s answer is for me to buy a new vtech phone (LOL!) – which they will give me at a special discount which ends up costing more than the local Future Shop!

so … anyone have a brand/model that they have had good, long term, success with?

looking for cordless with answering machine and a 2nd handset

thanks

I recently purchases a Vtech ia5874 cordless phone with an answering machine. I like the phone but the caller ID doesn’t show up until after the second ring. this wasn’t an issue before purchasing this phone and my non Vtech phone works perfectly. Customer support are a bunch of idiots and not helpful. anyone else have this problem and if so did you correct it?

Vtech Dect 6 0 Cordless Phone With Caller ID Digital Answering System and Bluetooth DS6301

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Vtech DECT 6 0 Black Cordless Phone with Caller ID LS6217

VTech’s LS6217 enables users to customize their phones with interchangeable handset. For additional personalization, the handset’s back plate can be easily changed with multiple preprinted inserts provided with the system.

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1 Star Failed on first use
This product had to be returned. On the first attempt to dial a phone number the display froze. The instruction booklet provided no help. Could not find a way to clear the display. Did not like all the fancy colored attachments. This phone is more about appearance than utility.

4 Stars Vtech cordless phone LS6217
I like everything about this except for the comfort of holding it. It does not have the usual rounded back that I am used to.

4 Stars VERY GOOD/COOL PHONE BUT YOU CAN ONLY USE ONE HANDSET
THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL. THIS IS A VERY GOOD PHONE. I BOUGHT FOR A STEAL ON CLEARANCE AT A BIG BOX STORE. IT SUCKS THAT YOU CAN’T UPGRADE TO MORE THAN ONE HANDSET. MY BATTERY TIME SUCKS…BUT IT’S PROBABLY BEEN SETTING IN THAT STORE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS!

1 Star Horrible phone
I got this as a gift, I had no idea it doesn’t have a hands free mode. What crappy company would make a phone in the year 2009 without a speakerphone? I have a Vtech phone from 1999 with a speakerphone. Even free cell phones have speakerphones. Also, the phone itself is not comfortable to hold. Do not buy this horrible phone.

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Uniden DECT 6 0 Silver Cordless Digital Answering System with Caller ID and Two Handsets DECT1580 2

This cordless phone features call-waiting/caller ID and DECT 6.0 technology lets you chat with your friends and enjoy long-range interference-free sound.Expandable phone system: Includes cordless base station with digital answering system plus 2 cordless handsets. Supports up to 6 handsets. DECT 6.0 technology: Provides long-range interference-free sound that’s Wi-Fi friendly.

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5 Stars We’re Very Pleased.
Electronic items never cease to amaze me. Our widescreen TV is only four years old and a better model of the same size now lists for about half of our original cost. Likewise with phones. We bought a two-station Vtech cordless phone about 4 years ago for 80 bucks. When the batteries needed replacement after two years, they cost over a third of what the original phone (with batteries) had cost! Well, the batteries needed replacement again. This time we looked around and found this new Uniden Phone System (DECT1580-2) for only a little more than what new batteries for the old Vtech phone would cost. Simply amazing! Well, we tossed the old phone, of course, although it would probably still work well given new batteries. Now the next question might be whether this was the right thing to do.

This Uniden phone works fine. Everything about it seems better than our old Vtech wireless phone. Plus, it has an answering machine and the old one didn’t. It clearly seems to be a superior phone in every way and the cost was markedly less. Now, the next test will be to see how it holds up on a long-term basis. So far, we’re very pleased with our new wireless phone.

Gary Peterson

5 Stars Better than other DECT phones
It shows up CID right after the first ring, while the Panasonic does it after two rings. The Uniden 2080 does not show caller’s name even if the CID is already in the phone book, while my Uniden 1560-2 does! Panasonic is the worst, it scrolls the name and then the phone #; plus, as I just said, it takes one more ring to get CID. When you finally see the caller’s #, it is too late, the answering machine is activated.

Although I like the idea of normal AAA NiMH batteries, Panasonic stupidly force them to be charged in the stock charger only. If you put a pair of fully charged batteries into the Panasonic, it keeps saying (via voice) “charge it for 7 hours”, until you put the handset into the charger for a while. This defeats quite the point, you still cannot charge the batteries and swap them.

This Uniden uses a battery pack, but the battery chamber is huge (designed for AA). I bought an AAA battery holder from RadioShack and, after some modifications, put it into the handset. Now I can swap NiMH batteries and never have to put the handset back into the charger. Love it. You cannot do this with Uniden 2080 that has a very small battery chamber.

Sound is loud and clear. The Panasonic has annoying background noise. Oh, you’ll love the big transparent back-lit keys with superb tic arc feel and the letters are printed underneath – they won’t wear out. The rubber key bars on 2080 are garbage.

Some other features worth of mentioning: you can copy phone book entries from one handset to other handsets. You can inte’com or page any or all other handsets and transfer or conference a call. You can make calls private to other handsets. You can assign 8 personal rings for different callers. Voicemail indicator and button, pause button, mute button, speakerphone button and redial 5 numbers.

If you don’t need the answering machine, the Uniden 1560-2 sold for $29.99 from your local HomeDepot stores is a steal. If you need more than 2 handsets, you can buy two 1560-2. You can also use any DCX150, DCX200 and DCX300 handsets, but each cost $30. Although you can use 2080’s handsets on 1560, they still won’t show caller’s name that’s already in phone book. You can register a handset to multiple bases; so there is no problem to use two or more 1560-2 for a single line (i.e, extra bases are used as chargers only). If you like, you can use them like multi-line phones which are very expensive.

The only thing missing is headset jack, which I don’t care but may turn down some people. One other concern is durability. My 900MHz Uniden just died after a year of light use. That’s why I’m in this market and this time I looked at the Panasonic first.

1 Star Worst phone
I purchase one of these phones and I only got it to work once sive that time it get on searching for the based. None of he steps in the booklet work. this is an terrible buy

4 Stars Exceptional Sound Quality with Ok Construction
The sound quality is exceptional. The phone and base construction is ok, not as substantial as older Uniden and Panasonic phones, but the sound quality and features more than make up for this deficit. In this price range, you are getting a very good phone.

4 Stars Nice phones for good price
Compared to other phones with the same characteristics, these phones have a very good price, but they do have a couple of problems.

I do get a bit of interference depending on how “far” I am from the base, which should be normal if I lived in a big house, but not in my case which is a medium sized apartment.

Another bad thing, compared to Panasonic for example, is that each phone is independent with it’s caller id and phonebook: if you add a phone number on one, you have to manually copy it to the other phone, or if you view missed calls on one phone’s caller id, they will remain on the other phone and you’ll have to erase them again.

The last problem worth mentioning is that the speakerphone sometimes dies. I haven’t figured out what really happens, but the sound sometimes just mutes, and after you move the phone it’ll sound again. I don’t think it’s a cable or something loose, because it happens with both phones.

Features are nice, answering device is nice.

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