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Panasonic KX-TG6700B 5.8 Ghz Cordless Phone Two-line Expandable Phone SystemWorks well.sound is good. convenient. reasonably easy to use.I like the product and it meets the need.
received the phone in record time, i think it took about 2 days, set up had a few problems, hard to figure out how to page to locate the handset when you loose the phone in the house. & also there is no way to turn off the ringer just at night time on a permanent bases, you have to turn it off every night & then remember to turn the ringer back on in the morning
Two-line service plus an answering machine, two extensions. There are one or two ways basic setup could be more user-friendly, but in the end the difference is between spending 5 minutes and 10 minutes on a onetime activity. Also, I've owned Panasonics in the past and found them reliable.The TG6700B has a sleek, compact design and a digital A/M with 60 minutes of recording time, which is pretty much state-of-the-art. I had reservations about going with an expandable system: I was afraid the integral A/M would be second-rate compared to a dedicated machine, and I was worried that the extension handset, not having its own hardwired connection to the phone lines but relying on the radio signal from the main base quite a distance away, wouldn't work well.I didn't even know there were expandable systems until I did this research. Maybe the critics have hearing difficulties."The construction is cheesy": It's true that the base and handsets are compact compared to earlier cordless phones -- that's the trend in consumer electronics.
I know that, in countries that have had DECT a while, health concerns are beginning to emerge regarding the technology; I also know that the sound quality, incoming and outgoing, of the DECT phone my mom has had for a year or so is horrible.In the end I went for the TG6700B because it seemed, overall, to be earning better online user reviews than most other models. I don't use Caller ID, Conference Calling, Call Waiting or any of the dozens of other advanced features of modern telecommunications, and I'm too polite ever to put someone on hold to answer the other line.In the past, I've always met my needs with a three-box solution: two separate cordless phone systems plus a dedicated A/M. I learned that there isn't a huge choice, these days, in 2-line cordless phones -- less choice than ever, it seems to me -- and that there isn't any one system that users are wildly enthusiastic about. Had to call tech support. I was looking to replace a VTech model, bought just a few months ago, that truly sucks.My needs: are pretty basic.
"The user manual needs improving": True. But they're not unattractive, and they don't seem to me to be particularly fragile or prone to breaking. without turning it up at all). I also discovered that RCA has just launched the first 2-line DECT phone, but I didn't consider it for long -- I'm not convinced DECT is the answer to cordless prayers that it's hyped to be.
The A/M does NOT have multiple mailboxes. As someone who has never been big on getting cricks in the neck, I prefer to hold my handsets in my hands. Having just bought and installed the TG6700B after hours of research, I thought my preliminary take might be helpful to others.Where I'm coming from: I've owned cordless phones almost as long as they've been around. I have no trouble working the buttons on the handset, and no one has ever accused me of having dainty fingers."Setup could be easier": Perhaps. I can't speak about setting up the bells-and-whistles features; as I've said, I don't use them. I had a problem with one setup issue, and couldn't find the solution either in the manual or on Panasonic's website. But in fact we'd found that most callers didn't understand -- or were too lazy to use -- the discrete mailboxes we'd set up on our AT&T machine, and that it was no big deal for any of us either way.What the TG6700B DOES have is a sound quality that is the best I've ever experienced, both on the A/M (incoming messages and the computer-voice instructions) and on the handsets -- even the extension handset, which is parked on a different floor and about 30 feet away from the main base, and is typically 40-45 feet away from the main base in use. This one does fit comfortably in the hand.All in all, I'm very happy so far.
The TG6700B is what you might call a 1 1/2-box solution: a main base unit and A/M in one under its own handset, plus an extension handset that relies on the same base unit. I'd be surprised if there was a better 2-line cordless on the market. A year ago, when I bought my last A/M, I would have considered that a big disadvantage -- I live in a 3-person household, and also work from home. Assuming that holds up, it makes the TG6700B a winner in my book.Finally, a few words about the typical criticisms of the TG6700B you'll find on the web:"You can't turn the handset volume up high enough": I've had no trouble hearing callers at the default volume (i.e. But I got a toll-free agent quickly, and she solved the problem inside of a minute."The handset is too small to hold between shoulder and ear for hands-free use": Maybe so. And particularly if you need more than one extension.
Excellent product. Both lines work great independently of each other. No complaint so far. I am going to expand by buying another handset.
The reception was good but I use it as a netphone and had some problems with the being able to hear people but they couldn't hear me. Then, just in the past few days the base station buttons stopped working. I've had this phone over a year now. So, for example, if you dial 1,1 or 2,2 or 3,3 you have to pause distinctly between dialing and be careful of that all the time. The buttons are good, however and show no wear after this time in the symbols. That was when I knew my connection wasn't so good so in fairness I don't know if it was the phone or the connection. A phone this expensive shouldn't have a problem like that.
I had a panasonic 900MHz phone before this for 4 or 5 years and it's sound quality was better than this. It was always hard to balance between one's shoulder and ear because of the strange shape. First the review message button.the circular one with the light.didn't work so I had to use the handset to review messages and now ALL the buttons on the base station do not work whereas the handset buttons still work. But what turned me off big time because I have to dial long winded, long distance numbers, is that when you dial the same number twice in a row, the person or computer on the other line receiving the number thinks it is one number, not two. If I speed-dial it's not a problem, but if I manual dial, it is a problem. Yes the recording playback quality of this is very good but I am really disappointed that this phone has failed after about 14 months. But ergonomically and the two digit glitch along with the base-station crapping out on me is surprising for a phone of this caliber.
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