Vtech VTC-VT-I5857

Pros: LOADS of features, ease of use, expandable, color screen, user selectable ring tones

Cons: Price - but still worth it!

The Bottom Line: Great phone with more features than you can shake a stick at. Will last you a LONG time!

Review: After I got married I had a little extra cash and knew I wanted a new phone for the house. With so many options out there it took me a while to decide what to get. After months of looking I finally decided on this phone. Let me explain why... ...

Pros: everything about it is awsome

Cons: no voice mail button and a search button

Review: This is the best phone I have ever had. Except i wish it had a voice mail button and a search button cause I am always losing the ...

Pros: Color screen, downloadable photos and ringers, 5.8 GHz, speakerphone on base and handset.

Cons: Screen limited to 255 colors. No color screen on base, only monochrome.

Review: The Vtech i5857 is an outstanding cordless phone. It is one of the first color screen cordless phones on the U.S. market. Style and design are pleasant and the feature-set is good. Reception in my home has been outstanding. Crystal clear clarity and no ...

Pros: I love the features it has such as backgrounds and personal ringers.

Cons: Limited to mostly preloaded screen backgrounds and ringers. Sound quality was disappointing.

Review: I wanted this phone because of all of it's features that resembled my cell phone. I found the voice quality to be a little disappointing. It comes with allot of preloaded ringers and backgrounds that are permanent and you can't delete them. You can only ...

Pros: PC Connectivity, Color Screen, 5.8 ghz operating band.

Cons: Feedback from wireless network???, Handset size, 256 color screen, Limited PC Connectivity.

The Bottom Line: It's an excellent choice especially for the techno gadget freek like me!

Review: **Update 6/13/05** After months of use, I do now have one complaint! Ghosting! I am assuming my wireless 802.11b network is somehow interefering. A quick turn off and turn on gets another channel, but if I don't I get a ghosting type sound or even a ...

Pros: Loaded with gadgets and cool stuff

Cons: Not loaded with quality sound or range

The Bottom Line: If you must buy this phone for the gadgets, buy another brand to actually use!

Review: This Vtech cordless phone is very impressive to look at. With its full color LCD display, and the ability to download custom display photos and ringtones, it sounds like Vtech are trying to make this home phone into a cellular phone. How many home ...

Pros: Nice speakerphone on base. Can work in a power outage. Custom Ring tones.

Cons: Extremely poor battery life. Screen looks more like 16 colors than 256. Large handset.

The Bottom Line: When the initial "cool factor" wore off a bit, I was left with a phone that you could not talk on for a reasonable period of time.

Review: On the surface, this phone has more features than anything on the market. I purchased the system and an extra handset and kept it for a week before returning them to Radio Shack. I took proper care in initial charging of the batteries and was shocked to ...

Pros: changeable ringers, vibrating alert, handset speakerphone

Cons: bad reception

Review: We purchased this phone to replace our old Panasonic system. We have never purchased a vtech product so we were unfamiliar with the quality but we liked the features. Well, I recommend checking the quality first. Yeah, the ringers are cool, just as is ...