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Advantages: Upto date technology
Disadvantages: Having to charge the batteries before use

...years and so when our BT Response 123 plus stopped deleting messages I thought it was time to replace it. Off I went to Tesco where I found amongst the array of phones on offer a BT Synergy 4500 and at £59.99 it looked to be a decent deal. Most of the other phones appeared to come in 2's or 3's and I immediately thought "too confusing for me". The Synergy though, was a piece of cake to install - plug into the wall and plug in the connector and the ...
...instructions said "charge the battery for 24 hours before using" and so I had to disconnect the line whilst the battery charged. It is almost a mobile phone connected to the land line with an external range of 300m and an internal range of 100m - I could use it from my neighbours home if I ever needed to!! It also has a SIM card download feature so I could down load all my mobile numbers onto the handset - a capacity of 255 numbers! It comes with ... Read review

Advantages: It's small, it's red.
Disadvantages: Insubstantial, poor menu, annoying tones, confusing answering machine.

Ok, I'm going to plagiarise now. I too, like the previous reviewer bought this phone because - it's red. That's it. It was, and still is red. And that's about as good as it gets. I could say it's slim. And it's got a little colour screen. But mostly it's red. The phone, I think, sucks. It cost about £100 from argos and I was, and am, disappointed. As soon as it came out of the box it looked poor. It may have lots of features and it may look stylish ...
...with no oomph about it at all. It's screen has a choice of wallpapers, all naff with a resolution from the dark ages. It's menu system is rubbish - if your expecting slick icon design akin to a mobile (even from 5 yrs ago) you'll be disappointed. It's frankly boring to navigate and not intuitive at all - the number of times I've pressed the wrong button is unbelievable and very frustrating. Anyway, I'll run through some of the features. You can ... Read review

Advantages: Neat, looks great, has everything you'd expect from a digital cordless phone.
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest on the market.

The Bt Diverse is a digital cordless phone which can be bought as a single phone, or in a a twin or trio pack, where you get a phone with a base unit plus 1 or 2 more phones to use around the house. Only the base unit needs to be plugged into a phone socket, which means you can put the extra phones in any room, and move them from room to room if you want to. The extra phones just need an electrical socket for them to work. The phone itself looks ...
...and if you have a BT Line and are on option 2 or 3 for your line rental you get free texts. I am on option 2 and get 100 free texts per month - so this is like £10.00 of free texts. If you are on option 3, you get 200 free texts per month(£20.00). This phone is great value for money, given that it offers up-to-date technology for a good price. There are cheaper phones about, if you look, but all in all I say it's good value. On the BT website it ... Read review

Advantages: Great Twin Phones
Disadvantages: Price To Steep For Some

...in the end selected the BT Diverse 6410 twin set from the BT website. They stood out because they had everything a mobile phone had including text messaging which is a real bonus especially where my wife works till late doing care work and rings all the time to let me know she is ok, now all she needs to do is text saving time and money. The phones are really stylish in a great metallic finish and the customizable settings make it really appealing ...
...all the Features of the BT Diverse 6410 these are essential and included in this review so you can make an informed comparison between other handsets available. Features ----------- Dialer Type Keypad Dialer Location Handset Volume Control Yes Ringer Control Yes Max Handset Operating Distance (Outdoor) 300 m Menu Operation Yes Function Buttons Mute button Additional Functions Call timer, built-in clock, Alarm Additional Features Key lock, ... Read review

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 ... Read review