Telephones

Cordless Clarity

Advantages: Stylish, easy to use, outstanding battery life
Disadvantages: Don't expect the colour screen to be like your mobile phone!

...online and spied upon the Siemens Gigaset C475 Triple available for the bargain price of £50 - so far as I was concerned this set had my name on it, and it was duly snapped up. Setting Up This was relatively straightforward - firstly I inserted batteries in the handsets and decided where I was going to locate the main base station, then I connected the base station to both the mains and the telephone socket, and charged up the main phone. The ...
...say the sound on this Siemens set is marginally better than that I got on the BT Synergy set. There is a useful loudspeaker function and each handset also has a headphone socket for 2.5mm jack connectors, which means you can be as public or as private as you want when making a call with the set. I have also used the phone to send text messages on occasion, although given my mobile phone contract gives me a large number of texts included, this is ...

rosebud2001 27.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Siemens Gigaset C475

BT Freestyle 350 SMS Triple

Advantages: great audio quality
Disadvantages: none

Sound quality is good on normal calls and on speaker phone and the ringer could be heard from the moon so no qualms there. If you have your broadband and phone on the same line make sure you have a good filter or the audio will drop off on calls to a whisper. The answer phone is also great and can be turned on or off at the touch of a button, there is also a button for locating the phone when you leave it in the kitchen cupboard etc. Build quality ...
...lump of plastic held together with sticky tape and when dropped spreads its insides across the room like a fragmentation grenade. The screen is tiny and despite having the option of changing settings like backgrounds and display it is pointless as it has what looks like 24 pixels across. Phonebook is good and if you have caller recognition on this works really well too. All in all a great phone when it comes to calls but leave the txt message option ...

srikanth1045 19.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of BT Freestyle 350 SMS Triple

Great stuff

Advantages: Comfy, easy, reasonable in price.
Disadvantages: Not many messages can be held

I have owned a pair of these phones for just under a month, but i still believe they are so good, that i can write a review about them - and trust them for the future. USABILITY: Very easy to use, Buttons are nice and easy to press, and not too small either. The menu button is out of the way of other buttons, this makes it easy to find, and use. (It's just below the screen). After some "testing" of the phone, I found it very easy to transfer calls ...
...menu is wonderfully easy to manage, with nice big letters, you can see exactly what you are doing. On the first screen when you first pick up the handset, you will see the battery icon, the name of the phone (which you can change), the handset number of the phone (useful if you have more than one handset), and the time. It's also very easy to see whether you have any recorded messages. The actual phone is shaped in such a nice way that it fits perfectly ...

frett21 05.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Magic Box Colombo

BNibbles Can't Come To The Phone Right Now

Advantages: Very versatile and intuitive to use. SMS-enabled
Disadvantages: I still get phone calls

...Red Dwarf fans. The BT Verve 450 Twin was what we bought, although I see from subsequent price searches, we 'were done' by Currys having been charged the full BT RRP of nigh-on 80 quid and during a January sale to boot. That'll teach me to make impulse buys! PHYSICAL SET-UP Leaping straight to the 'leave this to me, who needs instructions?' approach we did indeed get us most of the way to a working duet of cordless phones, but that's about as ...
...the Caller ID function from BT or whoever you pay your line rental to helps as this supposedly absolves you of the need to set the date and time - this is done apparently when the first call comes in. This is fine if you don't buy old stock or buy 'on the cusp' of a new year. This can lead to your answering machine reporting the correct time that calls were received but getting the day wrong. Don't rush to take it back as faulty - it's only the manual ...

BNibbles 08.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of BT Verve 450 TWIN

Exceptional piece of equipment from Philips that delivers!

Advantages: Superb sound quality and easy to use
Disadvantages: Missed call and sim card transfer needs improvement

...On this handset however, Philips have used a high gloss finish on the sides but kept the front of the unit (the bit that comes into contact with you) a matt finish dramatically reducing the need for constant cleaning. A nice little touch inside the box is the inclusion of two large spectacle type cleaning cloths to keep your phone looking its optimum. Features >>>>>>>> One of the main features of the phone is the incorporation of an answering ...
...to do this on the Philips phone involves holding down a dedicated key for at least two seconds which can seem irritatingly time consuming. Entering numbers into a text can also be a little annoying also as you have to press the relevant key several times (e.g to get the number "2", you would have to press the key 4 times) on a mobile phone numbers can usually be substituted by holding down keys. A useful feature with the SMS function on the phone ...

maa1506 11.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Philips ID9372B