Panasonic KX-TG6071M 5.8 GHz Expandable Digital Cordless Answering System (Platinum)

List Price: $69.95 Discount Price: $48.99

Features:

• 5.8 Ghz
• 4 Way Conference Capabilities
• Talking Caller Id
• Call Waiting Caller Id
• White Backlit Display

Accessories:

Home Phone Tunes HPT001 Ringboxx

Customer Reviews:

Display Window [Posted on 2007-08-31]
Your product was quite simple and easy to setup. I am still trying to get aquainted with all the features. I have a sugestion that I feel would improve the sale of your product.

The display window is awkward and difficult to read, even under optimum lighting conditions. I suggest this display window be tilted upwards about 45 degrees, enlarged and illuminated. Do this and I will give it 5 stars and buy another on!
Konrad

Poor battery life [Posted on 2007-09-19]
This phone is a great buy. It has very good reception and very helpful features. The only problem (it looks like is the same for every Panasonic phone) is the battery. The charge is supposed to last 7 hours of talking time and in the reality it last 4, 5 hours standing-by.

Panasonic answerphone [Posted on 2007-11-01]
I have owned a few Panasonic phones and liked them all. This one (Panasonic KX-TG6071M) is also very good. It is easy to use and the voices are loud and clear.
One thing that I miss that was on previous models is the message counter that shows the messages in memory even after listening to them. The unit is compact and attractive.
A belt clip would be nice to have.

Panasonic used to make good phones [Posted on 2008-01-31]
I've owned several wireless Panasonic phones and have always liked them in the past. This latest model changes that. It has all the features I was looking for. Voices are clear, reception is good, etc. But it fails miserably in one important area. The answering system.

The ansering system cannot detect when the person leaving the message has hung up. Because of this it continues recording silence for about 10 seconds at the end of every message and then records about 3 seconds of annoying dial tone before finally deciding that the other party isn't going to think of more to say and hanging up.

On top of that there are a few cosmetic issues that they've failed to keep up to their old standards. Their old phones had a rubberized grip area that was secure in your hand. This phone has a slick plastic handset that slips easily. They also had an optional belt clip that made it possible to clip it on your belt and wear a headset so you could walk around while talking. That was very useful.

Bottom line, I'm returning this phone tomorrow and buying one made by somebody else.

Great sound quality but missing some features [Posted on 2008-03-03]
This phone has very good voice quality, both input and output. The design is quite attractive and pretty easy to use, fairly intuitive.

Problem is, a lot of simple features are missing. For example, there is no list of recently dialed calls. Also, the caller ID will often simply state "call from out of area"---wtf??? Unless that's my phone company's fault (Qwest) but I tend to doubt that. It doesn't let you rename the different handsets either, for some reason.

All in all I would give this 4 stars but for the price, it really should be better in terms of features, hence 3 stars. I will probably return this unit and go back to Uniden, which has far better bang for the buck.

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