cordless DECT phones

ericpode

Anyone found a good deal on cordless DECT phones?

Must have conference facilty, and preferably speakerphone feature.
Also caller ID display.

Answer machine built-in would be nice but not really necessary.

ABH_3

ericpode wrote:

Anyone found a good deal on cordless DECT phones?

Must have conference facilty, and preferably speakerphone feature.
Also caller ID display.

Answer machine built-in would be nice but not really necessary.

Comet had the PANASONIC KXTG7123ES for £50 a couple of days ago. I'm unsure of whether it features Conference Call functionality, isn't that a feature of your phone provider?

HTH

hardpressed

Got a pair from Amazon for about £24 a few weeks ago.

Jnelhams

Loads to choose from on here....

Try and stick to Philips if you can.

http://www.telephonesonline.co.uk/details.asp?prodID=1118&title=Multi+Handset+Phones

ABH_3

Jnelhams wrote:

Loads to choose from on here....

Try and stick to Philips if you can.

I'm sorry to say, but that's terrible advice. Phlips make terrible quality dect phones (I know, I had 3 pairs) they are on a par with binatone they are so bad. Everyone I have given or told to purchase Panasonic dect phones have all agreed, they offer excellent call clarity both in standard voice mode and speaker. In addition, this is the advice offered if you were to ask in alt.telecom.uk a newsgroups visited by more telephone technicians, BT\NTL managers than you could in one year shake a stick at. Personally, I took their advice and purchased panasonic and have been happy ever since.

N9eav

What does DECT mean? Is it any different from a cordless phone

Jnelhams

ABH wrote:

I'm sorry to say, but that's terrible advice. Phlips make terrible quality dect phones (I know, I had 3 pairs) they are on a par with binatone they are so bad. Everyone I have given or told to purchase Panasonic dect phones have all agreed, they offer excellent call clarity both in standard voice mode and speaker. In addition, this is the advice offered if you were to ask in alt.telecom.uk a newsgroups visited by more telephone technicians, BT\NTL managers than you could in one year shake a stick at. Personally, I took their advice and purchased panasonic and have been happy ever since.

I must be likely then, as I have only ever had 2 Philips phones, but loads of BT, Audioline, C&W etc.....all duff.

Perhaps you just bought a dodgy batch.

Jnelhams

N9eav wrote:

What does DECT mean? Is it any different from a cordless phone

DECT - is a digital cordless phone, unlike the old cordless phones that made a noise like the radio off tune when you wander around.

They are much better, and you can use them with other DECT phones if they use the GAP standard.

fraz41

ABH wrote:

I'm sorry to say, but that's terrible advice. Phlips make terrible quality dect phones (I know, I had 3 pairs) they are on a par with binatone they are so bad. Everyone I have given or told to purchase Panasonic dect phones have all agreed, they offer excellent call clarity both in standard voice mode and speaker. In addition, this is the advice offered if you were to ask in alt.telecom.uk a newsgroups visited by more telephone technicians, BT\NTL managers than you could in one year shake a stick at. Personally, I took their advice and purchased panasonic and have been happy ever since.

I've had a Philips Zenia for over 2 years now and had no problems with it at all. My parents have a multihandset Onis model for the same period and have had no problems either. Don't know about Panasonic, but would certainly avoid BT phones as have had poor experience with these.

ABH_3

N9eav wrote:

What does DECT mean? Is it any different from a cordless phone

The (nearly) one line answer
DECT is a digital wireless technology which originated in Europe, but is now being adopted increasingly worldwide, for cordless telephones, wireless offices and even wireless telephone lines to the home. The younger brother of GSM - Global System for Mobile - it is by contrast a radio access technology, rather than a comprehensive system architecture; DECT has been designed and specified to interwork with many other types of network, such as the PSTN (conventional telephone networks), ISDN (new digital and data phone networks), GSM (mobile phone networks) and more.
http://www.dectweb.com/Introduction/answers.htm#One line answer

Back in the early 1980's, when analogue cordless phones began to reach European shores from the Far East, the techies quickly cottoned on to the fact that if you did it 'digitally' it could be better - less crackle and interference, more phones within a small space, security against eavesdroping, the ability to move throughout buildings by 'handing over' between 'base stations', and more.

Origins of DECT
Back in the early 1980's, when analogue cordless phones began to reach European shores from the Far East, the techies quickly cottoned on to the fact that if you did it 'digitally' it could be better - less crackle and interference, more phones within a small space, security against eavesdroping, the ability to move throughout buildings by 'handing over' between 'base stations', and more.

By late 1987, two erstwhile technologies had emerged aspiring to this role - the UK CT2 standard and the Swedish CT3. In the true spirit of European compromise it was decided by ETSI - the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, to develop a new standard - DECT - which would take the best of CT2 and CT3 and go far beyond either. Thus, in January 1988, was DECT born.
http://www.dectweb.com/Introduction/answers.htm#Origins

HTH

ABH_3

Jnelhams wrote:

I must be likely then, as I have only ever had 2 Philips phones, but loads of BT, Audioline, C&W etc.....all duff.

Perhaps you just bought a dodgy batch.

Or perhaps, you just bought a good batch?