VTech i5857 5.8 GHz DSS Expandable Cordless Phone with Dual Keypads and Color LCD Handset

List Price: $184.18 Discount Price: $53.71

Customer Reviews:

Defective Phone [Posted on 2006-02-04]
This phone is flat out defective. I give this phone a -5 star if possible.
The phone does not work.
1. The handset and base station has a difficulty remembering each other. I have to constantly enter the base station's id code on the handset.
2. The handset dies after dialing. I charged the battery overnight and it just has some serious bugs.
3. The base station is an energy hog. Consumes 21.7 watts per hour-- multiply that by a year. Devices like these should not consume this much energy.
4. This phone looks good in picture. But the construction and feel of the product is very cheap.

I'm returning this phone today. I could have given this one star if it actually worked.

Love this phone [Posted on 2006-03-25]
Have no complaints on this phone..enjoy everything about it. Even the colored screen is neat. Clarice Bostick

One of the better phones [Posted on 2006-06-26]
I owned this phone for over a year and just decided to write a review based on the bad reviews it was getting. I recently upgraded to the uniden tru9465-2 not because the phone wasn't good but because my 19 month old dropped it so often that speaker phone was starting to make a buzzing sound when you put it on. Besides that the phone worked perfectly. You can mute the phone and also the base when on a call which is important if you don't want the other person hearing what you say to another person in the room. The speaker phone worked great and if you can't find the handset, there is a locator button. The intercom feature also worked really well for me. My only problem was that the caller i.d function would repeat a number more than once thus taking up your caller i.d space, so if a person called you 10 times a day, their number would be there 10 times instead of just once as with other phones. Whatever name you program in your phone directory, that's the name that comes up on your caller i.d when they call. Making it easy for you. It only holds 50 numbers so program it wisely with the numbers you really need. You can put personal pictures along with the names, the same way you do with your cell phone. The picture quality isn't all that good I must admit but overall it's a good phone. The color screen also made it easier to see at night. I gave it a 4 because nothing is great but I highly recommend this phone.

Vtech i5857 5.8 Cordless Phone [Posted on 2007-01-22]
Very good phone. Worth the money. Power and Signal are good.

Don't buy from the amazon seller ZINBO [Posted on 2008-04-14]
I recently purchased a refurbished VTech i5857 5.8 GHz DSS Expandable Cordless Phone with Dual Keypads and Color LCD Handset from the amazon seller named ZINBO.The seller's comments on the item was "This item is refurbished in A+++++ working condition ". I was also pleased to see all the prior positive feedbacks for this seller but least did i know that something else was lying in store for me.I recieved the equipment after 1 week I placed the order.Now to describe the condition of the phone it would be more easy to point out the flaws rather than the plus points.

1stly the the phone looks very old & it seems as if it has been quiet badly used by it's prior owner .What i mean to say is that the paint on several parts of the handset including the dial digits has gone completely & it also has lot of dents & chip marks on it.

2ndly the battery life of the handset runs out very fast. So that means you have to charge the handset every day ,then what is the point of calling it as a cordless phone if you have to leave the handset in its cradle for most of the time.

3rdly the handset volume button found on its side does not work.

4thly the shipment didn't include the instruction manual of the phone.So i have no reference to check upon if i come across any problem using the phone

I really wanted to return this item but even the return policy of the seller is no good.Finally i would say that my hard earned money has totally gone waste & i have learned my lesson (though in a hard way) that i would never blindfoldly trust all the postive feedbacks of a seller.

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