I have a Philips that is playing up, but i am not very happy with it anyway,
as when you press a button it takes a second to respond, which is very
frustrating. i bought a BT cordless for work last year, and im not
impressed that either as it is not very user friendly and you need to
constantly refer to the manual to program numbers in etc. Can anyone
recommend a decent cordless phone?

Steve

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
...
I have a Philips that is playing up, but i am not very happy with it
anyway,
as when you press a button it takes a second to respond, which is very
frustrating. i bought a BT cordless for work last year, and im not
impressed that either as it is not very user friendly and you need to
constantly refer to the manual to program numbers in etc. Can anyone
recommend a decent cordless phone?

Sagan - but again you'll either love it or loathe it's French way of doing
things.

"Mike" wrote in message
...

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
...
I have a Philips that is playing up, but i am not very happy with it
anyway,
as when you press a button it takes a second to respond, which is very
frustrating. i bought a BT cordless for work last year, and im not
impressed that either as it is not very user friendly and you need to
constantly refer to the manual to program numbers in etc. Can anyone
recommend a decent cordless phone?

Sagan - but again you'll either love it or loathe it's French way of doing
things.

Sorry - meant Sagem

In message , Mike
wrote

"Mike" wrote in message
...

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
...
I have a Philips that is playing up, but i am not very happy with it
anyway,
as when you press a button it takes a second to respond, which is very
frustrating. i bought a BT cordless for work last year, and im not
impressed that either as it is not very user friendly and you need to
constantly refer to the manual to program numbers in etc. Can anyone
recommend a decent cordless phone?

Sagan - but again you'll either love it or loathe it's French way of doing
things.

Sorry - meant Sagem


The OP probably already hates it. Many of the BT branded phones are
Sagem!

--
Alan

r.p.mcmurphy wrote:

I have a Philips that is playing up, but i am not very happy with it anyway,
as when you press a button it takes a second to respond, which is very
frustrating. i bought a BT cordless for work last year, and im not
impressed that either as it is not very user friendly and you need to
constantly refer to the manual to program numbers in etc. Can anyone
recommend a decent cordless phone?

I picked up a twin pack of DECT cordless phones with answer phone at
Makro the other day for about 34+VAT. They were NTL branded. Not the
most aesthetically attractive handsets, but they do seem to work well
and are easy to use. They also have some nice touches like headset
socket, speaker phone capability. One slight anomaly is that the two
handsets are subtly different, the "main" one being the only one that
can drive the answer phone (since it is actually built into that
handset!). Good control of ringer volume and tone, paging, intercom etc.


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Cheers,

John.

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On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:51:15 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

r.p.mcmurphy wrote:

I have a Philips that is playing up, but i am not very happy with it anyway,
as when you press a button it takes a second to respond, which is very
frustrating. i bought a BT cordless for work last year, and im not
impressed that either as it is not very user friendly and you need to
constantly refer to the manual to program numbers in etc. Can anyone
recommend a decent cordless phone?

I picked up a twin pack of DECT cordless phones with answer phone at
Makro the other day for about 34+VAT. They were NTL branded. Not the
most aesthetically attractive handsets, but they do seem to work well
and are easy to use. They also have some nice touches like headset
socket, speaker phone capability. One slight anomaly is that the two
handsets are subtly different, the "main" one being the only one that
can drive the answer phone (since it is actually built into that
handset!). Good control of ringer volume and tone, paging, intercom etc.

On a more general note (still OT though !)

I've got a BT digital cordless which, in my naive way, I thought
should give a crystal clear signal. However, when using it I've found
that the sound quality, compared to a bog standard corded phone, is
much worse. The sound is a little fuzzy and difficult to hear, even
with the volume cranked up as high as it will go.

Am I expecting too much or have I got a duff phone ?

Cheers,

John

In article ,
John Anderton wrote:
I've got a BT digital cordless which, in my naive way, I thought
should give a crystal clear signal. However, when using it I've found
that the sound quality, compared to a bog standard corded phone, is
much worse. The sound is a little fuzzy and difficult to hear, even
with the volume cranked up as high as it will go.

Am I expecting too much or have I got a duff phone ?

I've got a selection of DECT phones and one analogue, and they all sound
fine to me. The difference is the analogue one sounds woolly at 'the other
end'.

--
*When the going gets tough, the tough take a coffee break *

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

I have been consistently happy with the performance of the BT Diverse range
(made by Siemens), two models over 8 years.

Paul R

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
...
I have a Philips that is playing up, but i am not very happy with it
anyway,
as when you press a button it takes a second to respond, which is very
frustrating. i bought a BT cordless for work last year, and im not
impressed that either as it is not very user friendly and you need to
constantly refer to the manual to program numbers in etc. Can anyone
recommend a decent cordless phone?

Steve

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:51:52 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
John Anderton wrote:
I've got a BT digital cordless which, in my naive way, I thought
should give a crystal clear signal. However, when using it I've found
that the sound quality, compared to a bog standard corded phone, is
much worse. The sound is a little fuzzy and difficult to hear, even
with the volume cranked up as high as it will go.

Am I expecting too much or have I got a duff phone ?

I've got a selection of DECT phones and one analogue, and they all sound
fine to me. The difference is the analogue one sounds woolly at 'the other
end'.

Sounds like I've got a duff one then because it's definitely not as
clear as the analogue

Cheers,

John

In message , John Anderton
wrote


Am I expecting too much or have I got a duff phone ?

Possibly a duff phone. All my BT (Sagem) DECT phones gives the same, if
not slightly better, sound quality as the corded phone I have.

Are you sure that you purchased a 'digital' cordless? There are still a
lot of non-digital phones on sale at the lower to mid price end of the
market.
--
Alan

I'm very happy with the Panasonic DECT phones I have - the only mildly
disconceting feature is the pause between pre-dialling a number and
pressing the 'Dial' button.

--
Steve

Ragworm The Abominable brought next idea :
I'm very happy with the Panasonic DECT phones I have - the only mildly
disconceting feature is the pause between pre-dialling a number and
pressing the 'Dial' button.

The 2 or 3 second delay has been a 'feature' of all of the DECT phones
we have had, you get used to it.

--


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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.org

John Anderton wrote:

On a more general note (still OT though !)

I've got a BT digital cordless which, in my naive way, I thought
should give a crystal clear signal. However, when using it I've found
that the sound quality, compared to a bog standard corded phone, is
much worse. The sound is a little fuzzy and difficult to hear, even
with the volume cranked up as high as it will go.

Am I expecting too much or have I got a duff phone ?

Duff phone I would guess... most proper DECT phones sound pretty clear.
I did have an old Audioline phone that was not DECT, but boasted
"digiclear" circuitry... now that was pants.


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Cheers,

John.

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on 19/02/2005, John Anderton supposed :
I've got a BT digital cordless which, in my naive way, I thought
should give a crystal clear signal. However, when using it I've found
that the sound quality, compared to a bog standard corded phone, is
much worse. The sound is a little fuzzy and difficult to hear, even
with the volume cranked up as high as it will go.

Having had several of each... I find the digital ones to be generally
better, but much depends on the quality of the audio circuits of both
types of phone. Other than this the digital ones have a much better
range with no deteriaoration even at extreme range. They either work
perfectly or not at all. The analogue ones gradually deteriorate the
further you go from the base.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.org