Advantages: Intercom, monitor and conference facilities, clarity of speech, good range, nice design, robust, reliable, access answering machine from any unit Disadvantages: No backlight and keypad illumination, no date & time stamp on the answering machine
...Cable & wireless CWD 2603: Handy cordless solution for your landline - excellent for mid-sized/large families
CWD 2603 package consists essentially of a CWD 2600 base unit (cordless phone and answering machine) and three separate CWD 265 units (cordless phone + recharging cradle) that can be purchased separately (as I did). As I have already reviewed CWD 2600 (please see there), I will insist here only on the differences that additional units will bring to the system.
With a nice space-saving design, the extra units have essentially the same qualities as the base unit, namely clarity of speech and good coverage, and are all robust and reliable.
Full use of the main base facilities are now possible: intercom, or internal calls, is one that I am particularly delighted with it means that members of the same family don't need to shout...
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Advantages: pleasant design, clear sound, good value for money Disadvantages: no backlight for screen and keys; no time & date stamp
...Bought online for £25 few months ago, CWD 2600 proves to be a great basic digital cordless phone. It lacks on ultimate things such as a colour display or polyphonic ringtones (no one would expect these on a phone in this price range anyway), but all its features are of very good quality.
My buying decision was prompted by a price drop in a clearance sale, while shopping and having this phone short-listed together with Philips Onis/Vox and a basic Panasonic (I must mention that Panasonic cordless phones are currently featured as 'Best buy's in Which? Magazine -- coming therefore with a higher price tag, while CWD phones don't seem to have been tested there). Tempted by the price drop. I took the risk, but I can clearly say now that Cable & Wireless was a good decision.
First of all, I must say I am impressed with its clarity of speech...
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Cable & wireless CWD 2603: Handy cordless solution for your landline - excellent for mid-sized/large families
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