Vtech ia5824 - 5.8 GHz Cordless Phone w/ Caller ID
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Customer Review: Consumer Reports "Best Buy"
Summary: 3 Stars
I have not purchased this phone, but was considering it after reading that Consumer Reports rated this phone their "Best Buy."
I am re-considering after reading the previous review, as the owner had his phone for 6+ months, prob. much longer than CR tested it.
Here's what Consumer Reports had to say...It gave it 71/100 points.
Highs
Excellent voice quality when talking and listening. Good phone ease of use and reasonable 7-hour talk time. Shouldn't cause interference to other wireless products. Phone has lighted keypad, any-key answer, voice-mail indicator, and multilingual menus.
Lows
Like most analog phones, its range is shorter than most, it can't conference cordless handsets with an outside call, and it's susceptible to interference from other wireless products, such as LANs, baby monitors, and other phones. Handset lacks auto talk.
Bottom Line
A CR Best Buy. This analog phone offers fine performance and features at a low price.
Customer Review: You get what you pay for !!!
Summary: 2 Stars
We also received this phone as a christmas present and own it for almost a year. It was working fine at first,a few weeks after getting used to it and all the wonderful beeping noise, the first handset collapsed. It keeps telling me the other unit is on which it is not! I tried everything v-tech suggested with no positive result.
At least we still had one handset left which I was able to take out in my yard(for 4 month) now I can barly make it to the kitchen (approximately 12 feet) without loud backround noise and constant beeping. It is irritating and frustrating that you are requiered to sit next to the base in order to have a decent understanding and completely annihilate's the purpose of a cordless phone !
V-tech offers to repair it for a fee but I don't want to spend any money on a product I don't believe in. So save your's and spend it on a hopefully better product ! GOOD LUCK !!!
Customer Review: Vtech is 0 for 2
Summary: 1 Stars
My husband and I bought two of these phones, based on the positive reviews in Consumer Reports. One phone has an echo--you hear yourself echo when you're on a call--and the other phone is static-y. I tried all the trouble shooting steps, including trying various chanels and different locations for the base. Nothing helped. V-tech has a ridiculous 30 day return policy. My experience with the costomer service line was beyond frustrating--from the horrible and inaccurate menu to the customer service agents who are not able to adequately communicate with the callers beyond the scripted situations they are trained for. They offered to replace the two phones for me with the same model, but given that two out of two phones have issues, I think that any other phone they sent would have problems, too.Customer Review: vtech 5824
Summary: 4 Stars
This phone produces clear and intelligent voices and is everything it says.
I have two knocks on it-
1. The receiver's earpiece does not have a 'natural' feel, as other phones do, and locating the speaker entails shifting the phone around until the loudest sound is heard.
2. The unit comes ready for desktop mounting. I needed wall mounting, and the directions for shifting the mounting bracket 180 degrees are ambiguous and unclear, to say the least. I needed to experiment for a couple hours to figure out what needed to occur, and this should not be the case.
The directions are clear on how to program the unit, however, and in all other aspects this seems to be a good piece of equipment.
A good unit for a good price.
Customer Review: I expected better quality
Summary: 3 Stars
I chose this cordless phone because it was recommneded in the "consumer reports" as being the best sound phone, but it was the same as the others I've had: it starts loosing quality when I walk 20 feet away from the base, with noise interfering in the conversation, and if I'm closer to the base, I can hear a "beep" from the light pulsating in the base.
Sorry to say, it's the same old medium-quality reception, can't compare to the plugged-into-the-wall models.