Battery life on Panasonics is supposed to be quite good.  The one I just
purchased supposedly has 7 hours of talk time.  We'll see though.  I'm kind
of concerned about what the sound will be like.  The phones are designed to
be a bit smaller, a little bigger than a Nokia 6160, so they may have
skimped on components.  

Why doesn't some company just come out with a high quality phone regardless
of the cost and charge what they need to make money on it?  Most cordless
phones are crap and I would definitely pay extra to have a high quality
phone.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe [mailto:pcdoc at snapreporter.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:12 PM
> To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org'
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] OT -- cordless phones
> 
> 
> I have an expandable Panasonic 2.4 ghz 2 line system.  I only 
> have 2 extra
> handsets with it, but it has worked great so far.  I keep one 
> handset at
> my business partner's house (about 3 houses away) and it 
> works great from
> there as well.  I don't know about interference with wireless 
> networks as
> I do not have that up and going yet.  I don't keep track of 
> the battery
> life much because I keep the handsets in their bases most of 
> the time, but
> I do know they last at least 3 days on standby.  I bought all 
> my stuff off
> eBay factory referb. for about 1/2 list price.
> 
> On Mon, 26 May 2003, Austad, Jay wrote:
> 
> > I need another phone for my house.  I was thinking of 
> getting an expandable
> > system, but after buying a Siemens system and returning it 
> because of poor
> > sound quality, I figured I should probably ask around to 
> forego having to
> > return a bunch of phone because they suck.
> >
> > I was thinking of either the Panasonic expandable, which is 
> 2.4ghz, but I
> > want to make sure it's not going to interfere with my 
> wireless network.  I
> > have a Panasonic one now, but it's only 2.4ghz one way and 
> 900 the other.
> > It doesn't interfere too much.  Or I was thinking about the 
> Uniden 5.8ghz
> > system.  I read mixed reviews on both of them though.  My 
> primary concerns
> > are sound quality and battery life.  My roomie has a Uniden 
> phone, just a
> > 900mhz, and the sound quality is crap.  But it's also a cheap phone.
> >
> > I saw some phones by EnGenius which are long range 900mhz 
> DSS phones.  They
> > actually look quite decent, but they are expensive and I 
> would assume that
> > the increased power output of these will drain the battery 
> fairly quickly.
> > I found a long range cordless phone on Ebay by Senao which 
> has a range of up
> > to 230km.  Unfortunately, it's not legal for use here as it 
> uses frequencies
> > somewhere between 230 and 450mhz.  It's a seller in Austrailia.
> >
> > I also have a Spectralink 802.11b cordless phone, but I 
> don't have a POTS
> > gateway to use it with yet.  Has anyone used these?  How are they?
> >
> > So, I basically have 4 choices:
> > 1. Panasonic
> > 2. Uniden 5.8ghz
> > 3. Spectralink system
> > 4. Some unknown as of yet super cool phone system that I 
> haven't heard
> > about.
> >
> > Jay
> >
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