Panasonic dect cordless twin pack home phone

cattie

That's the one glowgirl, I'm sure you'll be more than happy with it, but at least with Argos, if you get it home & decide it isn't for you, you can box it up & return it.

glowgirl_2

Thanks very much everyone, I'll pick it up tomorrow, I'm really looking forward to taking control of my home phone and unwanted calls, also being able to talk for more than half an hour at best will be a thing of the past, again thanks for all the really useful advice:T

linni

I bought my Panasonic phones after reading on this forum that they were good phones and I am really pleased with them. I suffered many years of 'silent' or 'nuisance' calls being able to see whose calling, switch it off and ignore it is is great. I bought mine in Tesco's but i've seen them in Asda too.

roddydogs

? how can you block silent calls if they dont leave a number?

tayzer

Roddydog: you can't unfortunately, the phone needs to know the number before it can be blocked

glowgirl_2

roddydogs wrote: »

? how can you block silent calls if they dont leave a number?

If I undertsand it correctly thats where night mode comes in but the downside is nobody can get through unless they are on your allowed/prefered list.

I bought mine today:j its on charge now I'm just going to have a go at setting up the phone book and blocking some unwanted numbers, I'll save the night mode until I see how the withheld numbers are going:)

Jemma-T

glowgirl wrote: »

Thanks everyone:)

Jemma, in the links to Amazon on your post, the model doesn't actually say it has call blocking and night mode, or if it does I cant see it in the description, is this the model you have with these features?

Also would you explain the difference between barring and blocking? as I don't particularly need an answerphone I'm wondering if I could save money on buying a set without it depending on the difference between the barring and blocking, I need to not receive calls or messages from certain numbers including mobiles and also not from withheld/unavailable numbers as I understand it this only seems to be possible with a night mode phone as in previous posts, any advice would be much appreciated:)

The guide PDF I posted a link to is those phones and I also posted the image from that guide. That's all you need to know.

Call barring is for outgoing calls (eg international, premium rate etc). It looks like Panasonic seem to be using the word 'bar' now rather than 'block'. I'm sure my guide says 'block'.

roddydogs wrote: »

? how can you block silent calls if they dont leave a number?

Night Mode. Phone will light up but not ring. Obviously you'd need to make sure no other phone in the house has a ringer etc. 100% Privacy Mode might me a better term than Night Mode due to our rethinking of it

tayzer wrote: »

Roddydog: you can't unfortunately, the phone needs to know the number before it can be blocked

Yes and no. As long as you have caller ID the phone will block anyone who is not on your category list (if set to Night Mode 23 hours 59 mins ie you set the phone to not disturb except for your 'white list'). Anyone from anywhere. The phone will simply not ring. If you have caller ID then you can block people obviously without the need of Night Mode at all. Obviously, if the person doesn't have a number (withheld, international, not available) then they cannot get through if you have Night Mode on. That's the whole idea. It just so happens 23 hours 59 mins is Night Mode for me.

I use both. People I don't want to get through get blocked (they hear an engaged tone every time they phone ) and anyone else I might not want to speak to I can't hear the phone ergo they can't get through and are blocked. Anyone on my Category list gets through. That's anyone I give my number to or anyone who might phone me.

That sounds like a perfect world to me. I divert my mobile to my landline too as I have unlimited landline minutes. Another bonus as the Panasonic filters all those calls too.

VfM4meplse

I'm another who loves my Panasonic phones. Really easy to set up, self directing functions, batteries last for ages, excellent sound quality. What's not to love?

glowgirl_2

I'm getting on well with the phone the clarity is amazing, I have one question for those in the know is there a way that when someone is leaving a message to stop it being broadcast to the whole room as they are leaving it other than answering the call so it works like BT 1571, I've looked it up in the booklet but cant see a way to make this work, any suggestions?

Jemma-T

glowgirl wrote: »

... is there a way that when someone is leaving a message to stop it being broadcast to the whole room as they are leaving it other than answering the call so it works like BT 1571...

That's going to be Call Screening:


On my model it's under Answering System (base unit)/Settings and set it to off.

Which model did you get?