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I just ignored perivous reviews about the echo and battery problem....But think what they were all right...Same issue with me

This phone has great sound quality (as good as corded)and is easy to operate. Has large buttons also a 'talk' and 'end' buttons instead of some phones that have a single button to answer and hang up, much better design so you don't have to second guess if you have hung up or not. Range is about the same as most 2.4 gig phones, more than the siemens phones. It doesn't techincal features like locking the keyboard nor a alphabetical directory, nor ability to name the handsets for easy paging (like the siemens). If it had these features it would be a five star to me.

Don't even think of buying this. I have been using (or try using) it for sometime now. After several hours of charging the battery would die with in 10 - 15 minutes of talking..bad choice...

I bought this phone a week ago, and I'll be returning it tomorrow. While the design is nice, the sound quality just isn't good enough. We don't have a microwave or wireless network in the house, we're out in the middle of the woods, so we're not getting interference from neighbor's phones, and the base station was consciously placed away from other electronics, so I expected a very clear voice on the other end of the phone. Unfortunately, this was asking too much; there was way too much hiss on the line, even when only a few feet from the base station.

On several occasions, I would hear my voice echo while talking to other people. The speakerphone feature worked pretty well, but the speaker volume seemed to fluctuate. Without speakerphone, I found the volume to be far too quiet.

This was not only a really great value, but it's a great piece of equipment that does everything it's supposed to do, and in a fairly uncomplicated way; Thumbs Up!