In article ,
mm wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:25:20 -0400, "MiamiCuse"
wrote:

Can someone recommend a cordless phone that has long lasting batteries that
will not "degrade" a lot over time?

I have two cordless phones, and when they were new, the batteries last 3 to
4 days, then after a few months or so of usages and charging/recharging,
they no longer hold charge as long, and it gets worse and worse until the
charge will hold for only about 15 minutes.

If you spend a lot of time talking on the cordless phone, this might
not be true, but otherwise, if you can get an old phone with an on/off
switch, you'll be better off.

On current phones the switch goes from standby to on, but the phone is
always in receive mode, running down the battery.

On old phones, when the switch was Off, the phone was off. No current
was used from the battery. It wouldn't ring, but you can still hear
one of the wired phones ringing, pick up the phone and turn it on to
talk.

Getting rid of the on-off switch strikes me as stupid. If new phones


Yeah, but this way "they" can *always* know where you are. Might
that be the reason for no more switch?


David