Motorola MD761 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Phone with Answering Machine and Caller ID (Black/Silver)

by Motorola

Product Details

Product Manual [962kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 3.5 x 9.2 x 8 inches ; 3.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002ZZPAS
• Item model number: 514039-001-00
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 2, 2004

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description The Motorola MD761 5.8 GHz digital cordless phone system offers versatile functionality that includes a digital answering system. Expandable to eight handsets (one included, additional model MD71 accessory handsets sold separately), the MD761 lets you place extensions throughout your home or office, but it requires only one phone jack. Additional features include visual call-waiting and voicemail-waiting indicators, caller ID with a 99-number memory capacity (shared; 50 in the handset, another 49 in the base), handset-to-handset intercom, room monitoring, three-way conferencing, speakerphone, even selectable ring tones.

The Motorola MD761 has an illuminated keypad for easy dialing and a four-line backlit LCD with helpful features such as time and date display and easy-to-navigate icons. Located in the phone's base, the integrated digital answering system offers voice memo recording, message forwarding, and remote message retrieval. The handset comes with a belt clip and is headset compatible (headset not included). The base is wall mountable for versatile placement. A convenient battery meter lets you monitor the handset's standard battery charge.

What's in the Box
MD761 (base and handset), NiCD battery pack, transformer, phone line cord, belt clip, wall mount, user's guide, warranty information

Product Description

5.8GHz Expandable ITAD/CID

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, but inferior to competitors..., December 17, 2004

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Addison Phillips (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motorola MD761 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Phone with Answering Machine and Caller ID (Black/Silver) (Office Product)

I bought this phone for my second (business) line at home. I have an AT&T (VTech) phone for the house phone and this product suffers in comparison.

First the good stuff: this phone is attractive and easy to set up. The menus navigate easily and you program the base from the handset (none of this silly separate programming). The buttons and whatnot I think are better placed and the phone is nicer looking.

But...

This phone suffers from a number of limits that are annoying. The AT&T phone handsets work from throughout the house. This phone doesn't reach even half the distance before it produces noticeable static and weak reception and dies before I get to the backyard (yipes).

Battery life seems to deplete rapidly. Hour long conference calls are a test for the phone.

If you don't hold the phone directly over your ear, you can't hear it very well. The phone isn't shaped in a way to keep the earpiece centered naturally and I'm constantly having to shift the phone so I can still hear.

It does have a handset speakerphone, but the quality is fairly poor. I intend to try it with a headset.

The setup was easy, but it did take time for the programming to register with the base (confusing). Motorola's website can't seem to deal with this phone yet and it is nigh-on impossible to order accessories (like a headset) from it.

So overall an attractive phone, but you'd be much better off with the AT&T or V-Tech (they make the AT&T), which I highly recommend.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad voice quality trumps design, October 2, 2005

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Tony Chang (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Motorola MD761 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Phone with Answering Machine and Caller ID (Black/Silver) (Office Product)

Like a lot of other reviewers I was seduced by the design and features. I've had this phone/answerer with a total of 4 handsets for about 7 months now. The voice quality has been highly variable, but most of the time it has been bad. Even the recordings on the answering machine are difficult to understand at bets and unintelligible at worst. I probably paid the price as an early adopter, so don't make the same mistake I did. Do your research and don't buy this phone.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Bad Experience, February 16, 2005

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Amazon Customer (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motorola MD761 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Phone with Answering Machine and Caller ID (Black/Silver) (Office Product)

I bought this from Amazon along with an extra handset. My kids loved the features and the retro look. But the sound was awful, dropping syllables, and sometimes whole words, of the person on the line so you had to guess what they were saying. Motorola tech support told me to move the phone away from all interference: refridgerators, stereos, lamps. Lamps? "I thought the 5.8 GHz was meant to resist interference." "No sir, these phones are very sensitive." So I found a corner of my house away from everything, even lamps. Same problem. I returned it to Amazon, losing $40 in fees and postage. Bought a Uniden 5.8 GHz at Sears that turned out to have all the features plus crystal clear sound. Even right next to the lamp!