The expansion unit is top notch. Sound is exceptional and features are all easy to use. I highly recommend this phone.
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Whistler XTR-190 Laser/Radar Detector Battery Operated with Built in Battery Charger
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I like this phone, stylish, great sound. My only issue is that the tal and end buttons do not illuminate. Otherwise I ould have given it 5 stars
I ordered this because of the speaker phone, didn’t realize it didn’t have an answering machine, but love all of the other features and since I have voice mail it is working out.
Great product all around. Very easy to setup. The picture makes it look big but it’s rather small, very slim and sleek. Stylish. I would definately recommend it.
I already owned an older Uniden 5.8 GHz phone, but with a recent switch to AT&T’s U-Verse Voice service, I was ready for something that offered a voicemail indicator, as well as better range than 5.8 GHz technology can provide, while not sacrificing sound quality. This phone delivered on those requirements.
It makes sense that the industry switched to a lower frequency band (1.9 GHz) since lower frequencies travel better through obstacles. Higher-is-better does not apply in this case. My 5.8 GHz analog phones had great sound quality, but the range was the pits. I could not talk at the opposite end of the house from the base. With this new Vtech, dead spots are a thing of the past.
Sound quality is very good, which is an accomplishment considering how thin the handsets are. They are so thin and light, they are almost toy-like. My favorite feature, however, is the voicemail indicator which integrates perfectly with U-Verse’s messaging system. At least one reviewer (may have been another model) complained they had to reset the voicemail-waiting indicators regularly. But I suspect their issue is with the phone company and not the phone since it’s your phone company’s system that sends the on/off signal to trigger the indicators. A fun – but yes I admit geeky – test I tried was to log into U-Verse’s voicemail web interface which allows you to play your messages on your computer (say, when you’re at work). I had a new voicemail, so I logged into the web portal and clicked on the play button for my new message. The second I clicked on “play” with the mouse, the voicemail indicators on the phone base and handsets cleared. Very well done U-Verse!
Enough babbling, here are the pros and cons:
Pros:
* very good sound quality (both listening and talking)
* voicemail indicators on handsets and base work well
* extremely light, thin handsets
* phonebook entries made on one handset automatically copy to the other
* if someone in your phonebook list calls, the handsets will display the name you assigned them (ie. “Mom & Dad”, not the caller ID version). Many cell phones do this, and it’s nice to see the feature on a cordless phone.
* excellent range, as you would expect with DECT 6.0 technology
Cons (sort of):
A $50 phone doesn’t get you a whole lot of fancy features. True, you’re not paying for an answering machine… why would you if you have free voicemail?
* the LCD screen is pretty basic (although the blue backlight is nice)
* the menus are clunky (but usable)
* the ring tones are nothing to write home about
* there’s no distinctive ring feature
* it lacks auto-answer (although any-key answer is there at least)
* no wall mount (but it’s pretty compact and won’t take up much counter/table space)
Overall, this is a great phone for the money. The handsets are sleek and look much more expensive than they are, and provide good sound quality. It should integrate perfectly with your phone company’s voicemail service, and the range is excellent.
I got a CT12 (unless it was a CT10) back in 2000. I loved it: it saved my neck from the pain associated with tilting my neck to hold a phone between my shoulder and my ear. The sound quality was great. The phone worked whether docked in its charger or while roaming the house. The sound quality was exceptional. the only problem I ever had with it was that I dropped it all the time and finally, after years of abuse, I killed it. (In fact, I had two of these phones between 2000 and 2010, when I finally decided I couldn’t squeeze anymore life out of the second one, also a victim of falls.) Compared to the older models, this CT14 is a terrible disappointment. I’m using it in the same location, yet now there is a constant irritating sound in the background. And it cannot be used while docked in the charger. May not sound like a big issue. But to answer these phones, one has to get the headset on, then press the talk button before the call goes to voicemail. With the old model, those were the only steps. With the CT14, there is a 3rd step — pull the phone out of the charger, get the headset on, then press talk. It’s not so easy to do that quickly, especially when the headset plug can pull out of the phone quite easily. Also, if you’re using the phone and inadvertently put it back in the charger because you’re using it while sitting at the desk where the charger is, the phone disconnects the call. If it does this because of some danger of the phone blowing up or giving me cancer while in use and in the charger, I’d be interested to know. Otherwise, it just seems like a design flaw. My rating of this phone is particularly low because I loved the older model so much. It was a revalation. This one is terrible by comparison. (If you never had the older version, this one might not frustrate you as much as it does me. But really, I am not okay with the terrible sound quality.)
Was looking for a portable phone with excellent sound quality, range, portability, and features, plus a wired (non-Bluetooth) headset. The Plantronics phone does everything I want, with the DECT 6.0 technology I can move around freely, advertised range is 300 ft from the base station and I verified however with some loss of sound quality at the extreme. The phone transmitter/keypad unit is small and light and clips on belt or clothing. All in all just what I wanted.
It’s only been a day, but I’m impressed. Over the decades I have used cordless phones from AT&T, Sony, V-tech, Panasonic and Radio Shack. They all had their good and bad points, and were serviceable. Today after charging its battery I fired up my Plantronics CT14 Cordless Headset Phone and said goodbye forever to the others. The range is astonishing, almost as good as the really old low frequency cordless phones from the early 1980s. I have had the transmitter base actually touching my computer (an iMac) without interference. Trying both the headband and hang-on-the-ear options, I found both comfortable even after 12 hours. The volume and sound quality in the earpiece is superb. People whom I’ve asked about the clarity of my voice said it is excellent.
Some of the comments about Plantronics devices have been derogatory especially when compared to Panasonic. I have used lots of Panasonic products and they are very good, but this product is terrific. Before buying this product, I tried out Plantronics’ headset by itself, the one that plugs in to your cordless phone. I found it difficult to keep the microphone away from scraping on my mustache; it wouldn’t quite adjust to prevent contact. The CT14’s microphone is on a shorter arm and clears my bushy upper lip just fine.
The only problem I have encountered so far is the “touch any button to answer” feature. I set it up, and it works on the first received call. But from then on, it doesn’t work. I have to re-set it to work for the next call. Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
I really like the Voicemail button–put in the phone number for your voicemail and simply push one button to receive your messages. There are a lot of features on this phone that I won’t be using that will probably be very useful to some, and the actual receiver unit is so tiny you can put it in a shirt pocket and still have room for your pet frog.
Highly recommended if you need both hands free to type or sculpt or cook or chop down trees though the sound of your chainsaw may mask the ringer. But that’s what voicemail is for.
Plantronics claims an “up to 300 foot range.” WRONG! I have gotten over 450 feet from the base unit and carried on a conversation. But I’m in the boondocks and only have oak trees to block the signal. It’s very strong at over 350 feet and beats anything I’ve ever owned except the old “brick” 29MHZ (I think) phones with the whip antennas that nobody makes anymore.
The Plantronics Cordless Headset (CT14) I purchased from Amazon.com is an excellent product and was shipped in good time! My wife uses this product daily while performing household duties. I would highly recommend this product!
The phone sound quality is good, and no interference. So if that’s all you want, it’s decent. But I should have shopped around more. I use the phone for conference calls and sometimes need mobility. There is no belt clip, no jack for a head set. And the phone is wedge shaped with the larger, heavier (battery) part at the bottom, so if you try to use it on your shoulder, as I have done for years, you have to bend your neck nearly perpendicular to its normal angle. And then have a high risk the phone just squirts out and crashes onto the floor. It does have a speaker phone capability, but it’s asynchronous — meaning many times you speak but if the other party has started speaking prior, your comments don’t get picked up. So for quick calls, it’s OK, for anything longer there just isn’t a good work around.
I have been using it for the past few weeks. I had to buy this phone as my old UNIDEN phone was interfering with my wireless setting at home. The dial tone on that old phone would also sound like running water (interrupted tones). I bought this and now no interefernce and also this one comes with a speaker so I can put the phone down with speaker and talk while I am still on the computer.
I bought this phone set and two additional add-on phones. We have a phone in more places than before! I like that you only have to plug the add-on phones into a power outlet – they don’t need a phone line. The speaker feature is loud & clear, nice! The only thing – there’s no answering machine. I guess I missed that in the description – I was looking for an expandable phone with speaker. Got that but no answering machine. AT&T Call Notes is way to expensive to add to local service ($9 a month). Now I have to get an answering machine. Oh well!
This system arrived promptly and in excellent condition. We have been using the handsets for several weeks now.
I found that the line-of-sight range for the handset is about 250 yards, which is useful on our property. That range is better than non-DECT telephones. However it is not nearly as great as my old Sanyo DSS handset. [Too bad that one is no longer available and mine finally died after many years of use.]
I do wish telephone manufacturers would give some estimation of ranges for their cordless phones. Those of us who live on several acres have need of that information.
We have an electronic outgoing phone number blocker on our central telephone system, such that there is a tone and a delay of about a second before dialing can take place. There does not appear to be any way to program that delay into the directory entries. For us, this is a slightly negative feature, since we must disable the blocker before dialing from the handset directory.
The intercom feature is especially helpful when my wife and I are each working in our own individual home offices.
The Find Handset feature has already helped us locate a handset that had mysteriously “disappeared” in a sofa.
For the price, this is an excellent choice for a cordless phone system. It can be expanded to more than 2 handsets.
I needed a phone and this phone was great price-wise and works great so far. Im happy with my purchase
The only problem with this item was mine. I needed a phone with an answering service and thought this was one.
it rings, you hear the caller, the caller hears you. The push button dialing is a little slow. But it was certainly cost effective.
We were looking for an analog phone — not too many left out there it seems. We know the electromagnetic-issues with digital, so we were trying to avoid one. This cheap phone is great, I’m glad we bought two of them to get the free shipping. We’ll eventually use the second one, too. Would have liked a speaker feature, hence the “4″ rating for features. It hung fine on our wall, too — does not stick out too far.
the phone is great…..wish the handset would let you know if you have a message on the answer machine…its beep not very loud