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In August I bought the Panasonic 5110 and was very impressed by the many features and fine performance BUT the handset was huge, there were antennae all over the place and the gaudy chrome accents ate away at me to the point of me searching for something else (yes, even after spending $250+). A week ago I noticed the new 5.8GHz Motorola MD681 and bought it the next day to check it out. I was more than pleasantly surprised. Although it doesn't have quite the full complement of features of the Panasonic 5100, it does have the following valuable and unique features: 1) Battery back up-doubles as a spare handset battery. 2) NIMH batteries-more power,less memory problems. 3) Sharp blue backlit displays that you don't need glasses to read. 4) Sleek slender handsets-light and comfortable to hold with the very functional trademark rubber grips along sides. 5) No antenna on the base and just a vestigial nub on the handsets. The 5.8GHz performance is excellent and the menus and operation are so intuative that one hardly needs to read the manual. The simple sleek styling, already attractive at first, grows on you even more over time. Motorola, a newcomer to the cordless market, has perfected their earlier models both in performnce and style in the MD681.