Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic GigaRange KX-TGA552M 5.8 GHz DSS Accessory Handset with Color LCD (Platinum)

I bought this additional handset to use with my KX-TG5538 Panasonic base and it has been working like a charm. Actually this phone in my opinion should have come with the base and has a larger screen, allows you to upload your own pictures (where the phones that came with the original based dissapointedly did not). I like the abilty to change ringtones as well. Voice quality has been great and the $20 rebate helped offset the expensive price for this individual handset. All my fiends and neighbors are in awe of this!

Only con is that I can not automatically transfer the phone book from my other handsets to this one which can be a pain.

I purchased this system from another vendor and bought two extra handsets from Amazon. This phone is outstanding in terms of ease of use and quality of sound. It is very easy to toggle between voice and speaker.

It is nice to put digital pictures on the phone, but I would consider this a novelty.

The price tag is on the high end (the only down side I see), but this is the third phone system I have purchased in the last year. I would have saved a lot of money if I got this from the get go.

Finally a phone and handset that is almost perfect. You don't have to read or listen to the "mushed" caller ID voice to identify when you want to answer the phone. You have many alternate choices... ring tones, pictures that pop up, and/or the blinking message light color. There are some weaknesses compared to the many other phones I have owned: 1) You can't customize the caller ID voice for your friends (but as mentioned above, you don't need this feature), 2) You can't dial from the speaker base without removing the handset first (what were the designers thinking?), 3) When you answer a call on one handset, the other handsets report the call as a missed call (just give up cleaning out the missed calls on the other handsets). 4) The buttons are a small on the handsets. However, it's the best phone I've owned so far. What I'd like to have is the ability to load all the features from the PC based phonebook. You can't customize the ring tone, ring color, and picture pop up from the PC based phone book so when you load the individual sets, you do more than put the name and number in the phonebook. You spend a lot of time customizing all the handsets. I do like the fact that you can add a name and number on one handset and send it (or all of names) to the other phone sets (... only one handset at at time). It's a definite keeper once you get past spending a lot of time programming the custom features. I recommend that you buy extra handsets and get down to one 5.8 Ghz phoneset system. I had two different 5.8 GHz phones interfering with each other. Now these phones work everywhere in my house.

this phone is great. it has many fantastic features and the voice/sound is great. the only thing i don't like about an additional handset is that if you pick up the phone when there is an incoming call with one handset, the other handsets says missed call. it would be great if they would all work togather. but all in all it's a great phone and would definately recommend it.

I bought the base set for this telephone and I liked it so much that I decided to get two extensions. The extension phones are unbelievably convenient because they're wireless and one just plugs them into an electrical outlet wherever one will be handy. The base phone can handle up to seven extensions and the extensions have a wide range and good clarity. I am multipy physically disabled and the extension phones save me from often having to answer my phone on a landline, then having the caller wait while I switch to a cordless, so I can move around. No more rushing to try to get to the cordless phone before it stops ringing. The entire set is superb and quite easy to program and to use. I especially like the fact that one can send one's directory to all of the extensions from the main phone, not having to program names and their phone numbers into each extension individually! Since I have over 40 entries programmed into my directory, this has saved me a great deal of time. These are definitely the best phones that I have ever had!Panasonic GigaRange KX-TG5576M 5.8 GHz DSS Expandable Cordless Phone with Answering System and Color LCD on Handset (Metallic Grey)