Here at the Mc. residence, we were in desperate need of a new phone. The old one had been battling for months, dropping calls and generally misbehaving - it was time to retire. Although our phone receives more than its share of usage (both our mothers love to talk); we don't give our number out, remain ex-directory and prefer not to have an answer phone so we don't have to return calls if they're not wanted (I'm not going to say which family member here but they know who they are!!). So we didn't want to spend money on a phone with a huge range of features we'd never use. Seeing as it's just the two of us, we also didn't need a second or third handset, which so many .  Read the complete review

Corded telephones in recent times have started to make a come back - or so it would appear for the John Lewis store in Edinburgh who always seem to be out of constant stock of their cheapest BT handset! I was one of very many buyers recently who have signed up for a year of cheaper Internet and phone calls from a certain company that justified looking for a basic phone rather than something I'd pay over the odds for. The solution was then the next handset up in the John Lewis stores and it comes in the form of the unusually named "Gigaset" family by Siemens because at the price of other corded phones it simply didn't make any sense to consider anything more ...  Read the complete review