GE 28112EE2 DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone with Digital Answerer and Caller ID

by General Electric

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 4.9 x 6.7 inches ; 2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000HZGZ8O
• Item model number: 28112EE2
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 9, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The GE DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone with Digital Answerer and Caller ID gives you an expandable cordless phone system with no interference: Its DECT 6.0 technology uses a frequency band that doesn't interfere with wireless home networking systems. A cordless base station and a cordless handset with charger are included. Each base station can accommodate up to four handsets. You can use the intercom feature to converse between handsets or between the handset and base without using a phone line.

A digital answering machine is built into the base station and features 15 minutes of recording time, remote message retrieval, a message counter, and a new message indicator. The phone has a caller ID feature that can display the name and number of incoming calls even when you're already on the phone. This information--and more--is displayed on a backlit LCD that has a multilingual message display. You can also assign unique ringtones to different numbers, which means you'll know who is calling without getting up. The GE DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone is backed by a 1-year warranty.

What's in the Box
Base, two handsets, two handset battery packs, two battery compartment covers, charger cradle, telephone line cord, AC power adapter, wall mount bracket, and two belt clips.

Product Description

6.0 Digital Answerer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't expect too much... And don't believe the box!, October 23, 2006

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M. Meunier "Marie-Marie" (NY and Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GE 28112EE2 DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone with Digital Answerer and Caller ID (Office Product)

I was very excited about this new phone system and all the wonderful features. I waited for weeks, then rush on the internet. Having use it for few days, I am quite deceived:

- The sound is so-so, it is sometime hard to understand people talking. Setting it to high make a slight "hum"
- The handset display is nearly unreadable, too bright with too thin fonts.
- Setting the phone is quite complicated (as compare to my former Panasonic)
- There a lot of frill options, but some other lacking (setting the display light for instance).
- At every power failure, the answering machine to be reset (how modern!),
- The speakerphone sound is "humming"

So, it is far from the description on the box.

I'd rather go for a 5,8 technology and another ... and wished I had buy it at Wal-Mart, so I could return it hassle free. But I didn't.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Buggy phone - try again GE, February 25, 2007

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Amy Davis (St. Paul, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GE 28112EE2 DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone with Digital Answerer and Caller ID (Office Product)

At first when I bought this phone, I couldn't understand why everyone gave it such bad reviews. However, after using it for a few weeks I've found there are some serious problems with this phone. I had to return it.

Pros:
* Finally, no interference from my other various devices.
* I work from home and my favorite feature on this phone is that the "mute" button is a toggle feature. You press it and the phone says "mute on" until you press it again. This means I don't have to hold down the mute button on a conference call where I just want to listen, or when I don't want coworkers to hear background noise in my house.
* Two expandable handsets will connect to the same call at one time, simply by pressing "talk". This comes in handy when the battery starts to die on one handset and you need to switch to another handset, or when two people in the same house want to talk to a caller at the same time.
* I love the blue backlight and find the display to be easy to read.
* It will store 50 numbers in its address book.
* Like all GE phones, there is a "format" button so I can redial a number from caller id and decide whether I want to include a 1 in front of the area code or not.
* The answering machine allows you to record & choose between 2 outgoing messages.
* A do not disturb button on the answering machine turns off all the ringers in the house with one touch.

Cons:
* Although the speakerphone adjusts to a nice high volume, the ear-speaker for normal handset use will not adjust loud enough. I have excellent hearing and do not normally have to turn up the volume on phones. On this phone, max volume is still not loud enough. So the only way to hear a soft-talker is to switch to speakerphone mode.
* There is quite a bit of background noise (like a hissing sound) that I don't have on the other cordless phones in my house.
* The phone does not register an incoming call or start ringing until the other phones in my house have already rung 3 times. So basically by the time this phone realizes it has an incoming call, I'm about to miss the call.
* Some of the buttons periodically do not work properly. For example, in one case pressing "speaker" (to enable the speakerphone) hung up on my caller, and in another case pressing mute would not unmute my call. I suspect the software in this phone is buggy.
* The quality of the outgoing message on the answering machine could be improved.
* The phone has some usability issues. For example once you enable the speaker phone, pressing "speakerphone" again hangs up the call, and pressing "talk" switches back to handset. This is exactly the opposite of what I would expect these two buttons to do in that situation. I had to read the user manual to figure out why I kept disconnecting my calls when I wanted to switch out of speakerphone mode.
* It would be nice to have the option to choose an audible alert for the mute, for example a soft beep every 10 seconds. I have to look at the screen to tell whether I'm on mute or not.
* The backlight turns on at random intervals when the phone is hung up. In my office this is distracting, but on my bedside table in the middle of the night this is unacceptable.
* I find the "baby monitor" feature to be creepy and I would like a way to disable and/or lock that down with a security code. This feature allows any handset in the house to silently listen in on conversations occurring in rooms near any other handset in the house. Anyone with kids (and their visiting friends) in the house would understand why this could pose a problem.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Nice try, GE, January 1, 2007

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Paula Hoyer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GE 28112EE2 DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone with Digital Answerer and Caller ID (Office Product)

You can spend a whole lot less and get a way better phone.

1st problem: I can't hear people on the other end regardless of volume setting.

2nd problem: Display is nice and bright, but the LCD doesn't have enough contrast, so you can't see the display.

3rd problem: I doesn't display the number of missed calls, you manually need to scroll through the list to see how many were missed.

I hope GE will take this piece of work back.