Caveat Emptor x 1000!! (U get no LOLs)

I bought a speaker phone/base and two additional handsets six weeks ago. Having worked with it now I can say without hesitation that this phone is unusable for anything other than the most basic phone operation, and you can expect the batteries to be dead after 20 minutes of speaker phone use. And the batteries go from three bars to two bars after five minutes and they never go to one bar and/or beep when low -- they just crap out.

The design is beyond my comprehension. Simple things are not just not possible. For example, viewing the telephone number in your phone book is not possible. Once a number is copied to the phone book it is not editable. This may sound like nothing but consider this scenario: A call comes in, you answer it and want to save the number to your phone book. You select the proper menu option to save it and the number is then in your phone book as xxx-xxx-xxxx, without a leading one, and there is no way to edit the number. Actually, there is a way - write down the number on a piece of paper (if you can find it hidden in the phone) and then delete it from your phone book and then re-enter the number in the complete form manually. I think not. UNUSABLE.

There are other "features" that a potential buyer needs to be aware of. For example, the contrast of the screen make it almost unreadable. Also, the answering machine adds new meaning to the word annoying. If you want to do something simple like, oh, say, deleting a message, you will end up in a button pressing frenzy before the simple task has been accomplished. In fact, anything you try to do will frustrate you to no end. The designers of this product would never use it. I'm pretty sure that they are not humans, come to think of it. Memo to the designers: The Dect 6, 5.8g and enhanced security and range "features" mean jack when the phone is impossible to use.

If you really hate somebody and want to get back at them, contact me and I will send them this phone. Come to think of it, that might be considered a Hate Crime so I'd best not do that. I'll never buy another Philips product again, period. I went back to the Panasonic 2.4G phones that I replaced. I'm very happy that I did this. Do yourselves a favor and do not buy this phone system and inflict this pain on both you and the people you communicate with. Your life has more value than that.