I previously had this Binatone phone and as a cheap phone it is pretty good. It has a contemporary silver design and small black buttons. I purchased mine from Argos but this was about four years ago. Like most landline phones there is a choice of ring tones but most of them are not the kind you want to listen to. I just chose the most bearable. It does have a nice design and has a decent size wire for plug and telephone cable; this cannot be used in the event of the power cut as there is no battery back up. .It did have a good range and base was in the front room and could quite happily chat on the phone in the back garden. The sound quality was ...  Read the complete review

Binatone MD1500 Quad There is nothing worse than reaching the phone just as whoever is ringing stops. Until recently this has been a regular occurrence in our house. The house is about a hundred years old and quite solid so a ringing phone is not easily heard if you are upstairs, in the kitchen or in the garden. We have, of course, got various extensions but, over time the phones have stopped working or been too cumbersome for the area in which they were required. We did have a cordless phone but it wasn’t usually the first thing to think of when passing it in the hall – and it recently stopped working anyway. When we found that the phone in the sitting ...  Read the complete review

Are you an adult, and live by your own or do you have children? Are they teenagers? And they probably use up the phone line a lot, which is really nagging! And then you got to think of the phone bill! Oh no! It could come up to £300! "But I have a mobile phone" you are probably saying to yourself right now. But what do you have to do with a mobile phone, SPEND money topping up or pay by bill which can be really expensive. Now is the new revoloutional way of talking to friends, family, co-workers on a personal radio/telephone of yours. I know you must be like "nanoryesnat is crazy you have to buy the walkie-talkies." ...  Read the complete review

md1500 - Advantages: small, light, use as a mobil phone - Disadvantages: small numbers