mini rant: cordless phones

[noelani72]

Okay. what brand of cordless home phone do you folks use?
I guess that question only applies to my fellow USA members. :-)

The best cordless phone we ever had was a Sony. It lasted us a good ten years or more before biting the dust.

Since then, we've had at&t, g.e., panasonic, uniden, motorolla....the works....2.4 mhz or 5.8...makes no difference as they're all freakin junk. $49...$79...$169..makes no difference.
The suckers last about a year, maaaaaaybe two and we still have to put brand new expensive batteries in em.

Nobody in the house has em glued to their ear 24/7 either. Am I just a victim of the old say, "They just don't make em like they used to"????

The one we currently have is Panasonic kx-tga560m and I am about to throw it thru the wall.....and the brand new $20 battery is only about 4 months old now. (And I have checked the charger station's connectors)

I need some good word of mouth advise before I go insane.
I'll budget upwards of $200 if you can tell me the phone you swear by.

[toys2cool]

I honestly don't even use home phones anymore,I have one just cause I need to have one to get High speed Internet,I only use my cell

[Mikey]

Mine is a Uniden 5.8
It's a peice of crap, but it was cheap

[Hulk]

V-Tech, one of those 4 phone systems with one major base station and 3 charging stations that Sam's was selling about 6 years ago. Replaced one battery so far, although I think another may be going south.

[cjefferys]

Uniden 5.8 Ghz (main one with base station plus two satellite phones). It's pretty craptacular. If I'm using the phone close to the base station it's fine, but if I use one of the satellite ones (in the bedroom and in the office downstairs), it's static city. I can't stand them. If anyone knows of any good models that aren't hideously expensive, I'd like to hear about them. Our previous one was a Pioneer phone that my wife brought back from Japan. It worked very well, but we needed a power converter to plug it in to the outlet, and it had a bunch of Japanese buttons on it that confused me.

[SUP-Ronin]

Seems like the simpler cheaper phones actually last longer and perform better. I had a crappy phone free from a Time magazine promo that worked longer than any other phone I have ever had. Now we have an at&t one that pretty much sucks.

[Thadiun Okona II]

We've got an AT&T 900mhz that I picked up back in '01, it still hold a good charge & works just fine. It's well used, too.

[Meule]

Am I just a victim of the old say, "They just don't make em like they used to"????

You bet they don't
Bought a set of 3 cordless phones couple of months ago and already had to send them back cause there was a problem with them. Just got them back this morning, wonder how long they'll last this time

[Adam West]

V-Tech, one of those 4 phone systems with one major base station and 3 charging stations that Sam's was selling about 6 years ago. Replaced one battery so far, although I think another may be going south.

I also have the same one purchased from Costco a couple of years ago. So far it has been the best cordless phone system I have owned and I believe the price tag is $80-90 for the entire 4 phone system.

[noelani72]

Sooo, V-Tech is a brand I never tried.
Suppose I'll go shopping this weekend after I figure bills....

[Action Martin]

I'd like to drop having a home phoneline but I am required to have a landline for my job. Yes, my job forces me to have a $22 a month bill.

I have a Motorola portable. It's silver and looks like those mini Nokia cell phones that were pretty popular about 7 years ago. It has a base unit with a digital recorder and you can get satellite units for different rooms in your house. I haven't had any problems with mine in the two years that I have had it but I also very rarely use it.