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We've had this phone about a month and it works wonderfully. Reception and sound is great. Clear as a bell. Phone is easy to use and easy to program. We were looking for a basic phone and answering machine with good voice quality. With this phone, we were pleased that it had the basics plus several extras. The keypad on the handset is backlit - it's blinks in red when the phone rings. You can operate the answering machine using the handset. Range is excellent. Again, it was wonderful to find a phone that had excellent voice quality. No background noise, static or interference of any kind. With our personal preferences, we did find one minor issue: When the ringer is on low it's still a bit loud. Overall, can't beat the quality and price in today's market of unreliable cordless phones. GE has done an excellent job. Highly recommned.

We have had this phone for a year and will be replacing it asap. The voice quality during phone calls is good, but the voice quality of messages is poor. Sometimes we can't even understand what the speaker is saying. I've called home and heard our greeting on this machine and it is also poor voice quality. We find it inconvenient that the message-waiting signal cannot be seen from across the room. We have to walk over to the phone to see if there are messages. Also, very annoying is that every time the phone plug has become loose or electricity has been otherwise interrupted we have to reset the clock or we'll get nothing but error messages!

i have had this phone since march 2004. the answer machine cuts off before the people can leave a phone # and short message and when i have an apartment for rent and pay about $135.00 for the ad in the newspaper and get home to 25 or so messages. most of the phone #s are cut off because the people leave their phone # last after their short message. Also i just bought a new battery at thanksgiving and it is almost dead now and the phone is not used that much for talking.
GE GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER AND PUT SOME QUALITY BACK IN YOUR PRODUCTS

Thought this phone looked very good. Was wrong. I've had it for about a year. Just bought a new phone from Panasonic.

The things I dont like about the GE are:

--Every now and then, seemingly at random, it says "Press review key to review setup instructions". Then it looses the date and greeting message. Setting the clock over and over is a pain.

--It gets very warm when charging.

--Here's the biggest one. The buttons are not working more and more as time goes by. The top 3 barely work at all. Not good if you were in an emergency. The old phone company phones worked forever. Only less than a year for this one.

I got this phone and returned it the next day. It had a very annoying echo when you spoke. I dont know if I got a defective unit or if it's a design flaw because I opted to get another phone instead.

Note that I have a wireless network in my apartment, so who knows if that had any effect one the phone; however I have another 2.4ghz Panasonic that works just fine.