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I just sent in my unit for warranty service after 11 months of usage. About once every two months, the wireless connection between the handset and the gateway simply breaks, necessitating a reset. These breakages will occur a few times over one to three days, requiring resetting each time. Being a poor graduate student, I was willing to tolerate this inconvenience for cheap Skype service. But last week after its most recent breakdown, no amount of resetting and unplugging would cure the problem.

A caveat about battery recharging: you must press the handset very firmly into the base station after each use, until you hear the beep-beep, otherwise in about 24 hours, the battery'll be dead.

I had this phone for six months before it finally died. I continually had to reset the base as it would lose connectivity on a regular basis. I sent it to GE service in AUG 2009, well today is OCT 7, 2009 and I have yet to have received any acknowledgment from GE. Hopefully they work the bugs out, because this is a good phone when it actually works.

This product working fine for 10 Months. Now Handset won't work at all in Skype Mode.

Really. Setup was a snap. I currently have a Skype account so all it took was connecting the power adapters and the RJ45 and all I had to do was turn on the phone and log in the same way I do on a PC. I was talking to Japan in less than 5 minutes after opening the box. This unit sure beats talking on a PC via a Mic and Earphones :)

I have this phone for about 10 month, it's great, very easy to setup and simple to operate and use two regular AAA Rechargeable batteries, so in the future if I need to replace the batteries (like any other rechargeable devices) it's going to be easy and inexpensive.