One of the best in it's price range. (Cable and Wireless CWP200)

Member Name: MichaelR

Product:	Cable and Wireless CWP200
Date:	02/02/01 (681 review reads)
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Advantages: Excellent price, good range of features, attractive design.

Disadvantages: It comes in a horrible yellow box!

I quite recently had a phone line installed in my bedroom, which is mainly used as an "Internet Line" for the computer, however, I thought that I might as well connect a telephone to this line too, and I set out to my local branch of Argos with the intention of purchasing a cheap phone. (Along with a very longgggggg extension cable so that I could set up the computer in the position that I wanted)

I opened the in-store catalogue to the section for telephones, and one phone immediately jumped out of the page and screamed, "Buy me".

This phone was the CWP200.

Why? Well, I was looking to spend no more than £10, and for this price, most of the phones you can buy are very, very basic, with very few functions, and tend to be of a design that I dislike, with the receiver completely covering the unit when you hang up.

The CWP200 however is a large, attractive, and fully featured phone, for around about the same price.

The phone is quite robust, well contoured, and the receiver fits well in the hand and is very comfortable to use for extended periods of time.

The buttons are nice and large, so you won't go making too many dialling errors. The redial button is VERY large, and well located right at the bottom of the phone, instead of being included on the numerical keypad as it is with many phones.

There is also a 13 number memory, with three "fast access" memories that can be dialled by pushing one button located near the top of the phone, next to a panel where you may write in your saved numbers, and the other ten memories are all accessed by pressing the "memory" button, and then one of the numerical keys from 0-9.

All the memories are easy to program and recall, and do save a lot of dialling time for those frequently dialled numbers.

The phone also features a visual ringer, in the form of a green flashing light, as well as a choice of ringer volumes
and a very distinctive ring tone - quite unlike any other home phone that I have ever heard.

This phone also comes with a good manual, and is approved for connection to all PSTN telephone lines.

It has most of the features of much more expensive telephones, and would be good value for money at double it's retail price.

The next time you think of buying a phone from BT, have a look at the Cable and Wireless range, and the CWP200 in particular. I don't think you'll be disappointed if you do.

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