Philips phones - answers all your communication questions (Philips DECT 5151S/07)

Member Name: apuskiduski

Product:	Philips DECT 5151S/07
Date:	19/02/09 (37 review reads)
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Advantages: Sleek design, good range, clear audio quality

Disadvantages: None as yet

If you live in a larger house or have more than two floors this is the perfect phone combo as it has it's own intercom and baby listening device.

The handsets
The small, cordless handsets are easy to use with a good range of 100m from the base unit, so they can be used in the garden too. Sound quality doesn't suffer until you are about 100m from the base unit. There is also the facility to turn up the volume on your ear piece so that you can go as far as 'boost' at the noisiest level. My dad is hard of hearing, however, and he can only hear people when they are on speaker phone, which is worth knowing if you have a similar problem.

There are lots of helpful features such as caller display, 50 number directory and a call log for the last 40 calls.

You can set up the phone so that different groups or individuals have different ring tones so you can hear who's calling, which is handy if you want to avoid them.

The phone is able to send and receive SMS text messages which my kids use but I haven't fathomed yet. This cuts down on their text messaging bills from their mobile.

You can set the alarm and the phone can be set to 'do not disturb' mode for shift workers sleeping during the day.

Once you are used to the phone you can transfer calls from one to the other by using the intercom feature. This can be tricky however and it took plenty reading of the manual to work it out. When someone rings the house you can only transfer the call, two phones can't be pressed to answer the same call, which can be slightly annoying.

There's also speakerphone which is handy while you're ironing - wouldn't want to pick up the wrong thing there! A word of caution here though. Remember you've switched it to speaker and knock it off before you put the ear piece back to your ear or you get deafened if you don't.

Battery life on each phone is excellent. We've left ours of the stand over a 4 day weekend and there's still life in it when we've come home.

The keys on the phone are easy to press and you can hear when you've pressed each one, but this is not a loud irritating noise thankfully.

Answer machine.
This is attached to the base station which is slightly bigger than the other docking stations. There are lots of features here too. You can use a preset message or record your own. You can set the machine to answer phonecalls of your choice, ignoring those that you don't want to receive.

Since buying our set of three phones, we have had no technical problems. As we live in a three storey house they have been perfect for our lifestyle. We no longer have to shout at the kids for making a racket upstairs - we just ring them!

Summary: A set of phones that also look good

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