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nice phone but has a few major flaws
I have owned this phone/answering system for about six months.
The hand units look great and work great, have good range, calls are always very clear. The talking caller id is nice and has saved me from
getting up to run to the phone on numerous occasions. The major flaws I've found are as follows:

1) As noted in a previous review, the answering machine cannot detect when the caller has hung up, which at our house happens a LOT. In this case the answering machine will record about 15 seconds of a message from the phone company "If you'd like to make a call , please hang up and try again , if this is an emergency please call 911 ......., then beep, beep, beep, beep....." ALL heard by us through the speaker on the base unit for about 15 seconds or until I run in there and hit the stop button. Then you have to delete the message. Extremely annoying.
I find it very hard to believe this made it through Panasonic product testing.

2) There is no counter displayed for the number of messages recorded.

Overall a good phone, but they really need to fix the hangup issue.

First phone
This phone is everything i need and more. it evens somehow manages to id people not in my phone book. i dont know how, but it is awesome.

very good product-one flaw
It has a major flaw. A cheaper phone will show you how many messages there are. Thought that was standard. Gave as gift-this point is a source of aggravation. Otherwise very fine. Nice small footprint

Great sound quality but missing some features
This phone has very good voice quality, both input and output. The design is quite attractive and pretty easy to use, fairly intuitive.

Problem is, a lot of simple features are missing. For example, there is no list of recently dialed calls. Also, the caller ID will often simply state "call from out of area"---wtf??? Unless that's my phone company's fault (Qwest) but I tend to doubt that. It doesn't let you rename the different handsets either, for some reason.

All in all I would give this 4 stars but for the price, it really should be better in terms of features, hence 3 stars. I will probably return this unit and go back to Uniden, which has far better bang for the buck.

Panasonic used to make good phones
I've owned several wireless Panasonic phones and have always liked them in the past. This latest model changes that. It has all the features I was looking for. Voices are clear, reception is good, etc. But it fails miserably in one important area. The answering system.

The ansering system cannot detect when the person leaving the message has hung up. Because of this it continues recording silence for about 10 seconds at the end of every message and then records about 3 seconds of annoying dial tone before finally deciding that the other party isn't going to think of more to say and hanging up.

On top of that there are a few cosmetic issues that they've failed to keep up to their old standards. Their old phones had a rubberized grip area that was secure in your hand. This phone has a slick plastic handset that slips easily. They also had an optional belt clip that made it possible to clip it on your belt and wear a headset so you could walk around while talking. That was very useful.

Bottom line, I'm returning this phone tomorrow and buying one made by somebody else.