Customer Reviews

AT&T EP562 5.8GHz DSS Handset for Expandable System EP5632 with Caller ID (Black/Silver)

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First- this is the expansion hand set- you need the other part for this to work.
If you have ONE spot in your house you can only use your cell phone, this is for you.

It's a great device. Your cell phone rings.... you have the home phone in your hand, and a little light flashes that says "cellular". You push the button and you are now connected to your cell phone VIA your home phone handset.

Not hard to set up, but you need bluetooth.

One complaint, the caller id isn't ever right when someone calls my cell. I just ignore it.

Now I can use my cell phone ALL over my house and get crystal clear reception. Just put the phone where you get reception- turn on the bluetooth, Viola!

Your cell must be within 3 feet of the base station for it to work.

I love it. It's a great phone for people who can't talk on their cell phones at home because of poor reception!

This phone system is a solid system expandable up to 12 handsets. The bluetooth functionality of the base station is a little quirky, and occasionally, I have to unplug the base to reset it to allow my cell phones to reconnect to the home system, but by and large, this has been a very good system for our home. The expandable bases are very easy to connect, and the handsets hold their charge for a long time. One problem I have found is that the phone book feature and custom rings do not transfer from phone to phone; you must input them individually on each phone. This is extremely frustrating when you have 12 handsets, especially if you use custom ring tones to identify callers. Other than that, this phone has been very good. No interference from my electronics has been noted, and I have a lot (and I do mean lots) of electronics in my home.

Great product:
Pros:
1. Bluetooth works with blackberry Curve and blackjack. Get incoming calls and make outgoing calls on cell phones by hitting the cell phone button.
2. Separate ringer for bluetooth cell phone lets you know where the call is coming too.
3. Assign separate ringers from list of 15+ to all you're frequent callers

Cons:
1. Have to program each phone individually. Why can't they just clone from base, or auto transfer phonebooks
2. Battery life is short. A day and a half off base and the phones dead.
3. bluetooth was tricky for a while. I had to reset it a time or two. But now it's pretty reliable.

This phone is a great phone. It is used as another handheld in our set. We needed another for our newly finished basement. It really does a lot for the money. The sound quality is great and we have actually dropped our phones on the tile floor several times and they hold up very well. You really can't go wrong buying this set.

I had the base station and a single handset for about a year and just added an extra handset. The whole system is easy to set up and works well.

This system works very well - does everything it is advertized to do and does it well...I got one of the GE Fusion DECT systems and had problems from the beginning, so much so that I trashed it - I figured the cell phone integration with the house phone was just too much to ask...when I went to select a "regular" system to replace the GE, I saw this AT&T product with very similar features and decided to try once more.

Couldn't be happier with the AT&T system...works perfectly...have 6 remote phones in addition to the base - can tailor each to function just like we want for each location it serves...the color display is nice (the GE units were mono)...cell integration is flawless.

I have been a faithful Panasonic user for cordless phones. With some reluctance I purchased the at&t phone. It had all of the features I was looking for and then some. I have used the phone for several months now and I am amazed at the quality of this phone. The buttons are large enough and seperated well from the other buttons so you don't make entry errors. The menus are easy and logical. You can call each handset seperately or all at one time. I like a cordless phone with a base that has a keypad and the keypad is excellent. I haven't had a chance to use the bluetooth conections yet but the possibilities are exciting. The phone comes with the base and one extra handset. Additional handsets are available. This is my only negative about the phone. The price of the handsets. At $70 per handset you invest some pretty good money by the time you buy 3-4 extra handsets. However, the system is flawless as a system. I believe this phone is worth the money. I would buy it again.

i ordered two expansion handsets, one works fine but need to return the other to ATT Return Center to exchange for another. The LCD display of the returned one did not work for some reasons. Anyway ATT was prompt in shipping a new one to me. The original seller ran out of stock of this model. too bad!

This At&T EP562 is an add on to my current system. The whole system works great. It allows me and my wife to add our cells to the system though blue tooth and only have to answer one phone for the land line and both cells. You can be on the land line and the other person can call out on the cell line. It's GREAT

Love this phone. I have the base/answering machine and lost the handset so I bought this to replace. Love that it can store 100 directory entries.