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As has been mentioned elsewhere, the display whilst readable, isn't that clear viewed in the dark when the blue backlight is on. Changing the contrast doesn't help a great deal but is fine under ambient light. The rubberised buttons themselves also light up very brightly.
I bought the quad handset version yesterday for a good price & set up the remaining fully working older Philips Onis handset as a 5th phone - it looses functions such as answerphone access but can make & receive calls including intercom mode to & from the supplied handsets.
The menu structure is generally OK but to stop the red "Event" LED from flashing on the handsets requires too many button presses through the menu for my liking (one option is to also set a bleep to to alert you but I found the LED was fine on its own).
DECT phones have come along way since I purchased my Philips Onis model back in 2000. The audio quality is very good, the entire phonebook can be sent to the other phones but remember to delete all entries from the target phone 1st or you get duplicates! Phonebook entries can be edited unlike my previous Philips & assigned to 1 of 3 groups that can be given 1 of 10 ringtones. Answerphone messages can be accessed from either the base-station or from any supplied handset. Importantly, if power to the base-station is cut, I could retrieve left messages after power was restored. Handsfree mode works well, remote access to left messages works & if the phone rings 4 times & the Philips has been set to "Economy" mode, you know that no messages have been left then hangup without incurring charges. I have held more comfortable handsets but is adequate. Numbers from the caller list can be added to the phonebook that can hold up 100 named entries.
To sum up: only just adequate display readability in the dark but very good sound quality. The incoming call volume was fine & could be adjusted during the call. You need to read the manual for this model!

The screen over the writing is too dense, too translucent, making the words and numbers hard to see

The phone is good quality and the sound between phones is good.

BUT - These phones will NOT answer a call on a Virgin telephone line
They will on a BT line (I tested this)

Virgin line = a DSL standard over co-axial line.
Its a different tone than BT and these phones just stall -they do not play the message, nor will they record. Confirmed with Phillips UK on two different, new, sealed, machines.
Trust me, I'm an expert.

(The Virgin line is not ADSL, not multiplexed, nor VOIP for all the smarties and Phillips tech helpline, its a standard DSL line)

Very Fast Delivery. Packaged Well. Exactly as Described. Very pleased with the whole thing from the ordering to the delivery. Recommend this seller. Credit to Amazon. Will use agin. Thanks A+++++

This set of cordless phones do not have the best sound quality but I like the range of features they have, particularly the abilty to transfer the Phonebook from one handset to the other. The idea seems to be to update the list on just one handset and update the other handsets from there. Also you can group callers into one of three groups with different rings so you can get an idea of who is calling you without actually going to the phone. I am very satisfied with the phones for what I paid.