A good phone for a good price (Philips CD 245)

Member Name: herbie__53

Product:	Philips CD 245
Date:	10/01/09 (190 review reads)
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Advantages: Backlit display, good choice of tunes, compact.

Disadvantages: Battery life.... replace those standard ones!

We thought we'd go modern and buy a cordless phone (and answerphone) for the first time ever. after much deliberation, we chose this one. In the year that we've had it, its never let us down, it always records messages as it shoud and generally works as expected! It has a little display on the base unit that will flash with the number of messages that you have received, and you press one button to play through all of the messages and another to delete them when you have listened to them. very simple stuff. Though if you come home to 10 messages and you want to save one or two of them you can't - as when you press delete it gets rid of all the messages on there. the only gripe i would have is that the batteries supplied dont have that great a life in them, ours have been on the blink for a couple of months now, with the battery losing half its life after being on the phone for about 10 minutes. We have replaced these now with general rechargeable batteries (as you can't buy the official Philips batteries that come with the phone anymore) and all is back to normal again. So for the cost of about a fiver for the batteries our phone is as good again as the day we bought it. Great backlit display, perfect for when the phone is ringing in the dark! Good choice of ringtunes as well, we've got a catchy little jangle which is far better than the normal "ring ring"!

Summary: A good choice of phone.

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