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John Phillips - 10 Dec 2007 22:30 GMT

Sorry to be on topic - no politics etc. in this post.

Need advice as to a phone to buy - thought of maybe a two set Uniden
brand, or Panasonic.

One for downstairs, one for upstairs.

Any advice (polite) please?

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Simon Templar - 11 Dec 2007 03:29 GMT

> Sorry to be on topic - no politics etc. in this post.
>
> Need advice as to a phone to buy - thought of maybe a two set Uniden
> brand, or Panasonic.
>
> One for downstairs, one for upstairs.

Are you referring to cordless or mobile phones?

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John Phillips - 12 Dec 2007 11:37 GMT

> Are you referring to cordless or mobile phones?

Cordless.

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Michael - 13 Dec 2007 10:05 GMT

>> Sorry to be on topic - no politics etc. in this post.
>>
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>
> Are you referring to cordless or mobile phones?

Moron

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Rod Speed - 11 Dec 2007 03:36 GMT

> Sorry to be on topic - no politics etc. in this post.

Looks like you arent anyway, this is for mobile phones, looks like you
should have posted to aus.comms if you want to discussed cordless phones.

> Need advice as to a phone to buy - thought of
> maybe a two set Uniden brand, or Panasonic.

> One for downstairs, one for upstairs.

> Any advice (polite) please?

I've never had any regrets with my panasonics,
but they are quite a way from the latest model now.

They arent the most intuitive designs around user interface wise,
particularly on basic stuff like an incoming call when you are already
on a previous call etc, and I've just recently discovered that you cant
do stuff as basic as delete the entire phone book from a handset,
you have to manually delete them one at a time, stupid approach.
But I dont know of any brand that does it any better, not that I have
tried very many alternatives.

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John Phillips - 12 Dec 2007 11:39 GMT

> I've never had any regrets with my panasonics,
> but they are quite a way from the latest model now.

Thanks Roddles.

Any particular technical specs. better than others?

I suppose they would still need an ADSL filter if ADSL is installed as
well?

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Rod Speed - 12 Dec 2007 18:48 GMT

> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

>> I've never had any regrets with my panasonics,
>> but they are quite a way from the latest model now.

> Thanks Roddles.

> Any particular technical specs. better than others?

I havent tried anything except DECTs myself.

> I suppose they would still need an ADSL filter if ADSL is installed as well?

Nope, my panasonics appear to have the adsl filter built in.

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John Phillips - 12 Dec 2007 11:41 GMT

> I've never had any regrets with my panasonics,
> but they are quite a way from the latest model now.

Thanks Roddles.

Any particular specifications better than others?

I suppose an ADSL filter is required if ADSL installed?

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Tom N - 13 Dec 2007 13:16 GMT

> Need advice as to a phone to buy - thought of maybe a two set Uniden
> brand, or Panasonic.
>
> One for downstairs, one for upstairs.
>
> Any advice (polite) please?

Panasonic and Uniden are good brands.

I have a Telstra DECT phone. It's got a horrible segmented display
which is piss poor at displaying alphanumerics, and the the answering
machine has been dodgy from day 1 (it randomly decides that a caller has
pressed the * key and so it asks for a PIN - frequency of this has
increased to the point that it is now on the VOIP line). I have seen
other phones with the segmented alphanumeric display and they all seem
to be horrible.

I've had a couple of analog Panasonics. Now we use a Doro twin handset
DECT. Doro is pretty good although the ergonomics of the menus could do
with some work and it has a colour display which uses more power than a
plain LCD and therefore the display dims to save power. The Doro
handset hands-free works well - better than the Telstra one.

The reason we got the Doro and, before it, the Telstra phone was that
they were from Flybuys points and they don't offer Panasonic or Uniden.

If you have a wireless computer network (or might get one) then you
should preferably avoid 2.4GHz band phones. DECT is not 2.4GHz but
WDECT is. Some phones operate on 5.8 GHz IIRC.

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John Phillips - 13 Dec 2007 13:55 GMT

> If you have a wireless computer network (or might get one) then you
> should preferably avoid 2.4GHz band phones. DECT is not 2.4GHz but
> WDECT is. Some phones operate on 5.8 GHz IIRC.

Thanks for the heads up!

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Marts - 15 Dec 2007 19:53 GMT

Tom N wrote...

> If you have a wireless computer network (or might get one) then you
> should preferably avoid 2.4GHz band phones. DECT is not 2.4GHz but
> WDECT is. Some phones operate on 5.8 GHz IIRC.

About 3 years ago we bought a 5.8ghz "Gigarange Supreme" Panasonic cordless
system consisting of the base unit with its own cordless handset and one
satelite cordless. We've since added two more cordless sets to the system, the
last one having gotten it off Ebay from some guy in the US because Panasonic no
longer sells them here.. For that we needed a plug in charger pack as the
supplied one was 110v. Got one from Tandy.

Anyway, the phones have worked brilliantly and faultlessly ever since. They have
various handy features including the ability to transfer or copy phonebook
contents to the other phones, voice enhanced ringer (it speaks the number or the
programmed name or the caller ID detail "private caller", "overseas", etc..

Missus also has a headset that she uses to yak to her sister while she's baking
or whatever which plugs into an earphone socket.

Base set and handsets have hands free operation too.

The base unit has a 3 mailbox message bank answering machine system so you can
have one for the parents, one for the kids, etc.

Unfortunately they no longer make this particular model. The newer ones don't
seem to have the same features and don't appear to be as ergonomic.

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