Cordless Phones

Have had BT On Air 2250 for the past eighteen months - they do all you need of them and have been reliable thus far (I am dreading typing this now!).

Prior to the BT we had Philips Onis something or another. Sadly the batteries were not up to scratch and the replacements were little better which is a shame for waht was otherwise a good phone.

Hope this helps.

After spending quite a few dollars on a name brand which proved next to useless I bought a telecom cheepie and it has proved to be reliable with a very good answerphone operation on the base unit.
Cost in UK for similar setup, probably 20 pounds.

Jamie,

I use Siemens, it is very reliable and damage resistant. I found Panasonic unreliable and can broke easy. Myabe you should check Sony too which is aestheticaly nicer than Siemens, but don't know about reliability.

Ozren

My old mate gave me a pretty waterlogged Siemens Gigaset 2000S a couple of years ago, after his kids chucked it in the bath whils't playing war (much to his amusement using it as a submarine to attack Barbie or some such thing, aren't they great with another home to go to !!!). Well I took it home myself (about two days after Barbie had torpedoed it) and gave it a full on drying out session (George Best style), and the bugger only worked, and has done brilliantly ever since, innit.

Fritz Von All buck shee too and especially good when I'm myself in the barf daan the east wing, innit:

I have two Philips "Onis" cordless phones - they are now 6 years old, so no doubt they'd be an old model.

They have performed very well with decent range etc. all the time although in one phone, I have just had to replace the batteries - which were inexpensive AA size rechargables.

I'd certainly buy the same or similar model again.

I've got a Siemens gigaset something or other with answer phone. It's been pretty reliable, but after having between 1 to 2 years the batteries were running flat very quickly - talk ten minutes, leave it off the charger for 10 minutes, then use it again and the you get a shrill beep every 20 seconds or so for the low battery warning. I've just replaced the batteries with duracell AA recharagable ones and it's working fine again now.

I don't know why there aren't more (any?) on the market more like cell phones. Not necassarily that small, but with larger (colour) screens for easier storage/retrieval of numbers with possible syncing up between your mobile and/or computer.

Been using a BT On Air 2100 for three years without any problems. Small, light, speakerphone facility and enough features to make operation painless without being confusing. I don't suppose they've been made ages but if I needed a replacement I'd go back to BT based on past experience.

FWIW

I hope somebody rings yer Chief ?

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Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
My old mate gave me a pretty waterlogged Siemens Gigaset 2000S a couple of years ago, after his kids chucked it in the bath whils't playing war (much to his amusement using it as a submarine to attack Barbie or some such thing, aren't they great with another home to go to !!!). Well I took it home myself (about two days after Barbie had torpedoed it) and gave it a full on drying out session (George Best style), and the bugger only worked, and has done brilliantly ever since, innit.

Fritz Von All buck shee too and especially good when I'm myself in the barf daan the east wing, innit:

Talk about tempting bleedin providence, mine finally gave up the bloody ghost yesterday for good, no matter how hard I wacked it in strategic places. Just been out and got me a nice new pair of philips jobby's, with all the bizz (they look really good too) with my hard earned dole dosh :


Fritz Von €45 for the pair was reasonable I thought including batteries etc, I've just got to wait 24 hours now for them to charge up, innit.

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Originally posted by Berlin Phritz:

I've just got to wait 24 hours now for them to charge up, innit.

Isn't it incredible that you actually have to wait to use something you paid for? My digi camera came with a 12 hour recharger. I was livid! I wanted to play and couldn't. They should have disposable alkaline batteries fitted in these toys to tide you over the first recharge. Imagine buying a new car and not being able to drive it for 24 hours because the first lot of petrol took that long to go down a narrow tube into the tank!

I had to wait two days once for my new bikes insurance to come through before I could drive it on the pubic highway, innit

I thought the maximum weight limit on a push-bike was covered by the manufacturer's guarantee?

I bought a twin pack of the BT Diverse <some number> a while back. It was the version without the answerphone, and was either 50 or 60 quid for the two pack.

My advice is to avoid them like the plague - they were just dreadful at transmitting your voice, whether used on handsfree or in holding-against-your-head mode. I could hear what people were saying to me just fine, but they couldn't hear me (an advantage, some might say )

I bought them to get the handsfree capability, which my existing Ericsson (can't remember the name - it's about 6 yrs old) doesn't have. In all other respects the Ericsson has been fine, though the built in phone book is a perhaps little cumbersome to use.

A pal of mine has a set of three Binatone handsets, which all do handsfree (nice and loud, so you can actually hear it) and transmit very clearly. She's had them about 4 years, and hasn't moaned about them so it seems they are reliable and fairly quirk-free.

Cheers!

Richard.

My two are up and running now in conjunction with a landline/a-machine, and through the ISDN splitter box that serves this internet connection too. They work great, 10 place phonebook is fine, and the only thing I've noticed is that after nearly 48 hours the batteries/acc-uss are still not fully charged, though I think this is to do with being their first time so top speak, innit ?



Fritz Von at £35 the pair they were a gift