We purchased this as our first house phone. It cost around £50 and hasn't let us down yet. It comes as a main base unit with phone and built in answering machine and a second separate phone with its own charging station. The second phone only requires a power socket, not a second telephone socket so it can be put anywhere. The phones have very clear screens which display the time and date and are backlit so you can see what you're doing in the dark. There is an alarm and a phonebook built in, we had to put the phonebook entries separately into both of them which wasn't great. It has an intercom so you can call the second phone, which is handy when ...  Read the complete review