I have purchased four different cordless phones is a month and returned all but one of them. The very first phone I picked up was the Motorola but the sound quality was shoddy with lots of echoes. It also had this little problem where it would just shut the answering machine off erasing all of the messages every time you replaced the phone into the cradle. Obviously, there was something very wrong with this two line cordless telephone.
Next I picked up the Panasonic GigaRange and I have had that for just a few days now. Compared to the Motorola cordless phone, the sound on this one is fine. Not excellent, but okay. And I wish I could crank up the volume a bit on the handset. Other than that, all of the features seem to work well and I find that the talking caller id feature is quite a hit around the house.
1 Week Update:
Everything on the Panasonic seems to still be working as advertised. I have not tried out all of the features yet, but I have tried quite a few of them and they mostly seem well designed and helpful. One disappointing thing however is that this cordless two line telephone is not expandable like I thought that it was when I purchased the phone. Even so, with all the trouble I had getting to this phone, that seems to work pretty well, I think I will let that slide and keep it.
And one last note. I just now discovered that the phone allows you to subscribe to the caller IQ service which will retrieve weather reports as well as other information right to the phone. Pretty cool I thought. And finally, you can import all of you Outlook addresses from your address book right into the phone contact list by going through the Panasonic website. This will save you a ton of work.
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