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Great phone with audio caller ID! Perfect for home - office use. Big blinking device when new messages are there...wish it was still made!

The 5.8 AT&T 5830 has been our best cordless phone thus far. Our Condo seems to be "wireless" challenged from some reason, but this baby sounds crystal clear! Our set is almost two years old and still kicking, with no failures. I intend to buy another and store it, because our path to this particular model was slow, frustrating and expensive.

This phone exceeded our expectations - love the duplex speakerphone technology and the talking caller ID.

I bought this phone based on all the glowing reviews I read, but the phone was VERY disappointing. When I walked more than 2 feet away from the phone's base, people on the other line would complain I was breaking up. When I walked out onto my deck, the phone call would cut off completely. I never had this problem with my old cordless phone, a Panasonic 900MHz model KX-TC145.

I also did a side by side comparison with the two phones (old panasonic/new AT&T) and people on the other line told me the reception on the old panasonic was MUCH better than on the AT&T 5830...Even when I was standing only inches from the AT&T's base.

I was very surprised by the limited range and poor sound quality. I thought 5.8GHz would put 900MHz to shame, but I was wrong. My house isn't very big, 1850 square feet, I don't think it's too much to expect reception throughout the house. Heck, with my old phone I can go outside and still get perfect reception in my neighbor's yard. This new one was a big waste of money.

Good thing I still have my old phone. The keypad has worn out on the handset so I can only dial on the base, but other than that it's fine after many years of hard labor. Too bad I don't know where to get a replacement KX-TC1451. I don't think they're available anymore.

Thanks to this disappointing experience I now sound like my grandmother..."they don't make things as good as they used to". ARRRRGGGGHHHH.

I purchased this phone after reading some glorious revirws here. The phone is good, especially the voice clarity. I ended up returning the phone, because a) the batteries did not last longer than 10 hours - even without using the phonr. ( but I may just picked up a lemon). The second annoying feature was the continuous message blinking of the base unit - even having erased all messages. Only unplugging and replugging of the unit alleviated the problem.
I bought the Panasonic 5.8 GHz instead and am quite happy with it.