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 Very Secure Phone with Cool Features!!! April 29, 2008
Weatherman (Northeast, Pennsylvania, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This phone is one of the best cordless phones on the market! Other than a few (what I consider minor and will get to later) problems, it's among thee best phones that keeps your conversations private! And there is a very cool "room monitor" feature as well that I'll get to.
First off, it's a 6.0 DECT phone Digital phone (digital as apposed to analog). This wavelength has few interferences, and you will not get problems as you do with a 2.9 Gig Phone with using the phone near the microwave, or near your wifi internet.
However in reality the FCC has not approved true 6.0 DECT in America (as they have in Europe. SO it's really 1.9. And 1.9 is VERY secure as not only is it digital (as I said earlier), but it's impossible to listen to in on a scanner (as you can with a 900 Mhz analog phone). So your conversations are secure.
It comes with two phones. A digital answering machine on the "base" phone. And it's a digital answering machine as well so that there are no moving parts inside or tapes to get mixed up. It's all a smooth black plastic with gray trimming.
The buttons and screen are a cool blue. The one flaw is that in total darkness you cannot read the buttons as they are not clear, but have a dark color over them. Now this is not major, as we all know where the 1-2-3....4-5-6..7-8-9....*-0-# are on the phone. But the Red hangup button, and green middle one for phone light. The ear piece is digital quality, and you can adjust it in the commands to make it more clear.
And the phone has a speaker function which is handy for being on hold or when you want to talk but not hold the phone to your hear. The speaker is loud and quality is good.
This next part some may find helpful or problematic. When adding names and numbers to the phonebook (total of 50 you can add), the the phones do not sync. Meaning that if you want both phones to have the same names and numbers in the phonebook you have to do both individually. My older phones automatically synced the information between both. However some may like this as you can have two phones with different information for a total of 100 names and numbers between the two.
The phones have the ability of caller ID, and call waiting (if you get it from your phone company). The range of the phones are very good....I have the base on third floor, and I the phone works in the basement. You can adjust from 20 different ring tones (some are very unique). Along with VIP ring, meaning you can set the phone to ring a specific ring to a certain person calling through caller ID. Naturally you can turn the ringers to max of six or turn them off.....either way the phones turn a bright blue when a call comes in.
There is a Do Not Disturb feature, so you can set the phone to go to the machine automatically if you do not want the phone to ring. Also see a "pest" is calling, hit one button and the call goes the machine without ringing any further.
When not in use, the screen turns to a large clock, showing the current time.
Phones are lightweight. Easy to install. Comes with all you need.
Now that I think is VERY cool is that the phones can be used as a ROOM MONITOR! You can leave one phone in a room (not in use), go somewhere else in the house, and with your other phone click on "monitor room extension" and you will hear what is going on in the room the other phone is! You can use it as a baby monitor, spy on your kids, parents, etc!!!
The phones also have an alarm clock, so that the phone will wake you at a certain time.
You can expand the phones to have up to six phones! And they do not have to be near each other (the other phone chargers).
The phones light up bright when they ring. And when in the charger, they almost act like a night light!
It comes with free Goog411. Meaning there is a single button you push for free information on stores, businesses in all 50 states and Canada, and Google will connect you FREE! It's a free number you call, and they connect you free! All at the touch of one button, free directory assistance!
You can turn the answering machine on or off either from home or if you are away you can call in and adjust it as it picks up on the tenth ring even if it's off and unless you put in your security code, it'll disconnect the call automatically if the code is not put in.
Originally I rated this four stars, due to a few of the problems listed. However looking over it again I rated it five stars as this I believe GE has a good system here.
 Looks great, sounds great, feels great BUT... May 14, 2008
J. Fuchs (Los Angeles, CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
On the plus side: The handsets are really comfortable to hold, the number buttons are nice and large and stand out from the phone well and everything is sleek and black and really attractive as telephones go, although the handsets seem to attract and show a lot of oil, no matter how clean your face. The sound is as good as any other cordless phone I have ever owned. So I should love this phone. And I like it just fine, plus it's a great price. So why do I think it's just okay?
Well, first and foremost, there's the blue LED on the base that is so bright it actually interferes with any decor that doesn't match it. It is so bright that in a darkened bedroom it is downright annoying and I have to remember to turn it away from the bed so it doesn't wake me up when I'm in a light sleep. The blue light does go out when the handset is removed from the cradle and then the base just has a soft, red light. However, removing the handset at night is not a great option as the battery life on the handsets is considerably less than on my Uniden phone.
Moving on, the response time on the phone is sluggish. The phone takes awhile to reset after a call so you can't just hang up and hit redial, for instance, or you get the message "incomplete data." Also, the redial button isn't that easy to find, being small and located right near the #/pause button. Maybe not a problem for some, but I use redial quite a bit and I like how Uniden has this set up better. The volume control/scrolling buttons are small and need to be pressed with the tip of one's thumb, which is kind of inconvenient during a call and can lead to accidentally pressing the speakerphone button, which is larger and right below the down arrow.
The Google 411 sounds nice, but it only works for businesses, and while it's certainly better than paying local phone company charges and the voice recognition software is better than on my cell phone, no human picks up if the computer doesn't recognize your words. I wanted a listing for "Urban Tails," which it couldn't recognize, so I tried just the word "Urban" and got seven hits, which it started to go through one by one (complete with addresses). It would have been faster to look it up on the internet. It's a nice feature, but mostly because there's no charge for the service. Hopefully I'll get better at using it and/or Google will improve the software.
As others have noted, the speakerphone button is located right next to the talk button and is similarly marked in green. Even if you don't mistake one for the other, it's easy to hit the key accidentally and end up putting a call on speaker. The phone comes with numerous ring tones, but almost all of them sound like a 70's video game and only one (the first one) was pleasant sounding and sounded like a phone. Fortunately that one tone is great, but I can't imagine anyone wanting the others, other than perhaps to set priority rings, which this phone lets you do. Boop boop beep it's your husband. Thanks, but I'll just look for the caller i.d. on the display, which is nice and large.
In short, if you need a phone that sounds great and looks nice, and you don't mind a bright, blue light that you can't adjust or turn off, this one is certainly a great price and has a lot of nice features -- speakerphone, caller i.d., answering machine and, most of all, the ability to attach up to 6 handsets without needing to jack more than one base into the wall. Two handsets are included with the base and labeled Handset 1 and handset 2, although as they are interchangeable I'm not sure why this matters. For me, however, that blue light takes this phone from a solid 4 1/2 stars to about a 3 1/2, even at this price.
UPDATE 5/19/08 -- well, according to my friends it doesn't sound all that great. They're always very happy when I switch to my Uniden phone. And comparing the two on the same call makes me realize that the GE sounds a little bit tinny. So, I stand by my rating. Good for the price, but there are better cordless phones out there.
First impression(s) April 22, 2008
Y. Mann (United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm one of those people who needs a phone for what it is, I want to make phone calls, have clear reception, and be able to see who is calling me when I get an incoming call. For all of that, this phone and the second handset it comes with does the job well enough.
The handsets have the time in large numbers when they are in their base unit(s) charging which is a nice feature. The speakerphone is loud enough, although as another reviewer pointed out it is in the place where the 'talk' button is usually located. The 'talk' button is now located in the middle between the speakerphone and the 'cancel' buttons. The menu and sub menus are easy to go into and I like that I have a choice of ring tones to choose from.
The phone has a nice range, I can carry it all around the house and still get great reception. The overall look of the phone is aesthetically pleasing which I'm sure people care about to a certain extent. That's basically all I need to know about a phone and all I want to know about a phone. I haven't tested or tried out the answering machine as I have others throughout the house, so I won't comment on that aspect of this phone. The price is actually very reasonable and if I had any experience with it before this review I would be more than willing to spend the $78 that it costs, so far so good.
Great ergonomics, not user friendly June 11, 2008
Lori (NC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was so excited to order this phone. I saw it in Staples and it felt really easy to hold. The design was slim and compact for a new answering machine. It has clear reception, however, sometimes it is hard the hear the other person because they sound very quite. We are also disappointed with the speaker phone. It is not of very good quality.
The biggest problem for me is the menu items and phonebook. It is not a simple push two buttons and you have your phonebook to scroll from. Nor can you save the caller ID numbers directly into your phonebook like other phones. The manual says the caller ID can be stored using a series of menu buttons, but nothing can be saved if there are non-numerical characters. What! caller ID has a name (non-numerical) and that is why we like it. I emailed the company and ask if there was another way I could program the numbers and they emailed me 3 days later to say call the non- 1800 number and try to talk to someone else.
A pro: The Google 411 works great.
My advice, if you want to use the features built into a phone do not buy this one. If you want a phone to just talk on and it feels good in your hand, this one would be okay.
Exceeded my expectations! May 15, 2008
Gadget Geek
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In the few short weeks that I have used the GE DECT 6.0 Digital phone, it has performed exceptionally well in my small office. The voice quality has been excellent, and had great range. I tested the phone walking about 100+ ft down the hall to the end of the building, and even though there were a number of walls, and concrete obstructions, I was able to hold a uninterrupted crystal clear conversation -- Unbelievable! My last cordless phone was the run of the mill 2.4 GHz variety, and the difference between the two is like night and day. These new DECT 6.0 (Note: 6.0 does NOT refer to frequency) phones do not seem to suffer from the same interference that has plagued the 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz phones -- it just works!
I'll admit, this phone has so many features that I'm still trying to learn how to use it all. The features that I have used -- Caller ID, Goog-411, voicemail and speaker phone -- have all performed very well. I had been using Goog-411 on my cell phone for a while now, so its a welcome addition to have the button readily available.
At times, the speaker phone did not seem loud enough, but my loud co-workers may be to blame, not the phone. The belt clip is a nice add-on. For the voicemail, it would have been nice to have more than one mailbox, but I don't know of any consumer phone sets that offer such a thing.
Despite my minor gripes, I love this phone. Even though I use my cell phone as my primary line now, I am tempted to purchase a set of these for my home, and would certainly recommend it to others.
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