A cheap phone that looks and feels like a cheap phone (Binatone Veva 1200 DECT)

Member Name: soutram

Product:	Binatone Veva 1200 DECT
Date:	20/10/09 (200 review reads)
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Advantages: Its very cheap

Disadvantages: Looses connection with the base and beeps (usually in the middle of the night)

Recently our home phone packed up so we had to look for a new one, we didn't want one that was very expensive as we don't use the phone that much and didn't see the point in spending a fortune for it to just sit there.

After looking through the Argos catalogue I came across the Binatone Veva 1200, it was a single cordless handset and cost £18.99, just what we where looking for so of I went to purchase it.

What's in the Box?
In the box you get the handset, the base for the handset, the mains cable, a telephone cable and a set of instructions that tell you how to use the various features of the phone.

The Phone
The phone is made out of a cheap plastic; it feels like it may break quite easily, the buttons are made out of a soft rubber material with white numbers and letters on them. The dimensions of the phone are 14cm long and 5.5cm wide so it's quite a nice size, it fits in my hand just right.

The base is made out of the same cheap plastic, overall it's not a very nice looking phone but then at £18.99 what can you expect.

This phone is also available with two handsets and cost £29.99

Functions
The phone has a basic amount of functions which is fine for me as I just want a phone to be able to make calls and nothing more.

The functions are as follows:
50 name and number phonebook, 10 last number redial., 20 name and number incoming call list, 5 monophonic ringtones, Call timer, Clock, Alarm, Call waiting, Ringer volume control on handset, Caller ID - Network dependant and Date and time settings.

As I said not masses of features but the 50 name phonebook is handy to store all of you numbers in and I find the last 10 number redial very handy.

My Opinion
We have had a few problems with this phone, the first couple of weeks it was fine then for some reason in the middle of the night it started beeping, at first we thought it was ringing but when we got up we realized it wasn't so we picked it up & put it back in its base and went back to bed, then a hour later it did the same again (very annoying at 3 in the morning) so my partner took it of its base and put it under a cushions so we couldn't hear it.

In the morning we had a look and it seems that the metal prongs in the base of the phone sometimes loose connection with the prongs in the phone stand so it constantly beeps, the most frustrating part is that it only seems to do it in the early hours of the morning, we have tried taking the phone back but they wont replace it as we no longer have the receipt so now every night we have to make sure we take the phone of the base to make sure it does not start beeping.

Apart from that the phone pretty much does what it is supposed to do, sits on the cabinet and waits for someone to ring it, the ring tones are ok sounding and are a good volume so it can be herd wherever I am in the house.

Overall this phone is ok, it's a budget phone that looks and feels like it's a budget phone, I think next time I will invest a little more and get a better one.

Summary: Overall not a great phone but if your on a budget then it will do

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