Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The features were good, but the interface was very clunky and difficult to use. It offers just about everything from Caller ID to handset message retrieval, and I got about 200 yards away before being cut off. The answering machine was good. Unfortunately, the battery life is short. It claims a 14 day standby period and 8 hours talk time. Speaking only a few hours indoors, it went dead. We went on vacation for six days. We left with a full charge, and came home to a dead phone. We owned it for 4 weeks before returning it for another unit. We charged the second one fully, and it went dead after *maybe* 2 hours of talking at close range over a 3 day period. We took it back immediately. We couldn't locate it centrally in an open room like they suggest, but it was against a wall and we had little (if any) obstructions when using it. We went to it from a 25 channel Lucent model and were extremely disappointed. We recharged the Lucent once a week tops, and that was not even necessary. Maybe the battery isn't strong enough for all it offers? Performance was decent, but far from excellent. The range was great, but that was it. People said I sounded distant, and the unit is small. My wife complained she couldn't hold it on her shoulder easily and talk. Please note the unit is not wall mountable.