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This last time when I needed it for a job, due to the headset capability, it wouldn't work. The phone was ordered at the end of Oct 2008.
Fourth time I've used the phone.Don't waste your moneyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. It's now April 2009.
First of all I barely used this phone. I wish Amazon wouldn't sell this product and wish I had read the reviews prior to buying it.
My rating is -5 stars but there was no option for it. Had it plugged in about 3 times.
Got a dial tone, no numbers would print digitally, and no numbers would dial when I pressed the buttons.
I bought this for my office after reading a lot of reviews. Also, every office has different levels of ambient noise. Phones like this are hard to find.Firstly, it looks professional, not like an iPod or neon drenched Tokyo skyline. It doesn't need batteries, which means you're not always replacing them and the screen and backlight can thus be powerful enough to read because they're powered by a plug-pack, not AAAs (like the Panasonics which I wanted to buy, but get consistently bad reviews because of this).Most importantly for an office it has both speaker phone and headset and even more importantly, all three functions (handset, headset and speaker) have separate volume controls.
The LCD screen angle can't be changed (although the whole phone angle can be adjusted), so it sometimes reflects the office lights above, making the screen hard to see, but you can probably adust the phone to get around that. I use the headset most and it's clear and loud enough on the middle setting. It has memory and redial, plus a bunch of speed dials which I don't use. As some people say, the buttons are a little stiff to push, which at first I noticed, but now I don't at all. I like the large flashing Message Waiting light, which is nevertheless unobtrusive when not flashing.Now the few minor reasons why I didn't give it 5 stars. I wanted an office phone, but didn't want 2 lines and didn't want a built in answering machine as I have voicemail.
The ringer voume is also separately adjustable.It also has tons of good feaures like auto call forwarding buttons that work with most phone companies (even Vonage VoIP as I discovered), so you can forward your office to your cell with one button press. And finally, when listening back to voicemails I notice that the loud speaker sometimes gets a little choppy, but not too bad.Overall, I think this is the best, simplest and most fully functional phone out there - and it's at a great price. It's black and silver with a subtle blue backlight, not like a kid's toy on your desk. I can't stress enough how important it is to be able to adjust these separately, since most people use a combination of speaker phone and picking up the handset and if you've cranked up the speaker volume, when you pick up the handset, you don't have to mess that that each time.
I recommend this product to others Good product and seller was fast to get it to me.
Seems well put together. Cost was good. This is a straight forward phone that does what I need it to do, and has sufficient buzzers and whistles (e.g. speaker, quick dial memory) to meet my needs.
I HAVE USED THIS PHONE FOR A SHORT TIME AND SO FAR AM VERY PLEASED,WITH THE EXECPTION OF THE RATHER LOW QUALITY OF THE LED CALLER IDDISPLAY.
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