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(More customer reviews)I was excited at the bluetooth functionality. I can now come home, put my blackberry on the charger and answer my cell from any handset in the house, very cool! Sound quality is excellent, and the speakerphone works very well. Range is very good. The large number buttons are nice and useable. Another exciting feature is that the phone imports the address books from out of your cell phones. I had 185 in my Blackberry and it imported them very quickly. These phone books are instantly available to all your handsets. You also have a generous 200 address memory for the Home address book. Answering machine functionality is very good. You can listen to and program your VM via any of the handsets. You can have up to 11 handsets.
For the not so great stuff, for some reason this phone still requires a land-line. I don't understand why they did this, you would think that this would be the product that would let you be cell-only and not pay for a land-line. Makes no sense.
- The charger with a phone in it is a very precarious assembly. The base has no stability at all and the phone is just lightly sitting in the charger. Just look at it wrong and it falls over.
-There is no headphone jack in the handsets. You can use a blue-tooth headset, which is cool, but you have to be within 30' of the base station, which is very limiting, in my opinion. It would have been nothing to include a headset jack. Again, strange decision.
- You can't assign custom a ring tone to incoming calls. I had this on the ancient uniden I retired and was very bummed that this feature was not included. I really miss it!
- There are also no speed dial functions, again something oddly missing.
- The search function for the address book only works from the front of your phone address. So for example if you have Smith, Jane, you won't find her by typing in "Ja". You can only search for "sm".
- The controls are odd. You have a very large button you would swear was a directional pad, it tilts in all planes. But no, it's just a big, dumb button. You press it to bring up the menu then you have to shift your finger up to the multipurpose up/down arrows. These frequently used buttons are very small compared to the rest of the phones controls. Silly design.
- Around this giant, dumb, button is a majestic glowing blue ring to show when you are sitting in the charge dock properly. This is a very bright light. So bright it bathes your entire bedroom in a blue glow. You can practically read with it. You are probably getting the picture that this is not a good thing. I used a black magic marker to try to cut back on it's brightness, but it's that kind of plastic even a sharpie can't stick to it.
Overall, the sound quality, bluetooth and address book capabilities are amazing and make up for the above shortcomings. But it would have been nothing to program in a few more features and it's too bad AT&T cut themselves short. And that stupid blue glowing ring...
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