Customer Reviews

Motorola MD471 2.4 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Speakerphone with Caller ID (Silver)

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

I bought the MD 470 and 3 MD 40 extension phones. They have been returned. The sound quality is poor. The hands free volume is weak and unusable. The telephone book memory is awkward to access. The tech support is non-existent. It's off shore and they "have not a clue" as to this product. Save your money, don't buy

I have had these phones for almost two years now. I really liked looking at and using these phones, they're pretty and well-designed. I did not have the volume problems, and the battery life wasn't an issue once I replaced the batteries. (grumble...)

But now the screens are getting dead horizontal lines and the keys are becoming non-functional. I've cleaned the keypads on my phones a few times, but they get dirty about once a month now, so I must give up.

I wish Motorola would get it's act together with it's consumer products.

It's more like a 3.8 out of 5. Overall I like this phone. Pros are ring tones, fast charge, ease of number storage, and speaker phone located on actual phone as well as base. Cons, batterey life is very short - about 45 minutes of talk time and it needs to recharge. Phone volume could stand some improvement (needs to go a little louder) and getting the phone to go from speaker to just the handset needs a little practice. Lost a few calls trying to turn off the speaker.

Great phone with great features. Love the intercom and hands free talking. Make sure though you buy the updated version with improved volume and the 50 number phone book storage can be alphabetized.

The speakers are lame and noisy, and it is hard to hear, and I'm not hard of hearing! People are always asking me what I just said, too. And on speaker phone, this is the pits. There are a lot of nice gizmo type features, but the phone itself is not very good. Avoid.

I wish I had researched this phone before I bought it. I wouldn't have wasted my money. Ditto everything -- especially the low volume. Drat.

I hate to admit that I bought this phone system.
I bought it because the features looked great. An expandable system with one base unit.
But I was really bummed when I got it home.
You can't hear anyone when they call, and I am not so sure they can hear you. I had it turned up all the way and I was constantly asking people to repeat themselves.
The answering machine is unusable, you can understand about 10% of what is said on a good day.
The earpiece is very uncomfortable and as someone mentioned the menu to use your stored numbers is very clunky.
I almost lost the packaging for these phones and was quite upset that I would have paid that much money for something that was worthless.

It's too bad one star is as low as the scale goes.

I would definitely not recommend this equipment.
I hope Motorola's cell phones are better than this one.

I bought this phone because it seemed to have everything I needed, and had good design as well. But I hate this thing! The volume is too low in the handset, and even the speaker sucks. I can't understand what my callers are saying whether they leave a message or are on the phone attempting to have a conversation with me. My friends no longer bother calling me on it because it's just too frustrating for them to hear me saying, "huh?" all the time.

I miss my 900mhz Panasonic.

There are plenty of annoying features with this phone -- battery life is poor, menus confusing, etc. but my biggest complaint is reliability. I have TWO of them, and "menu" buttons are starting to breakdown on both, battery life pathetic on both, and both have poor call quality. Although there is a place to plug in the headset, after a month or so, the headsets wouldn't work in this phone. (the headsets themselves work fine in other phones).

This phone has such poor audio quality that it is almost useless. I bought it because of the features and nice design, but after having it for almost two years, I realize that THAT is all I paid for. Functionally it is a disaster!

I only gave it one star because 'NO' stars was not an available option!