Customer Reviews

5.8GHZ Cordless Phone

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Love it it's the best phone I've Ever Used. The Camera is great. I put the Camera at my front door when so someone come up to the door the phone rings ,We can see & talk to the person at the door, without having to open the door . The Camera alone makes it worth the $100.00.
I was able to get the Phone, Camera, & 5 extra Handsets for what most other site wonted for just the Phone, base & Camera alone. I have to say is buy it you will love it.

Cons: The only bad thing is the phones don't come with belt clips .But you can buy them for around $3.00.each.

I have an older set of cordless Panasonics that I enjoy very much around the house. I recently added a second phone line for my home office and ordered this phone. Other reviews note battery life and sluggish charging time - all true, but not that bad. Two hand-sets gets me through a day laiden with conference calls. The camera option, well, unless you're monitoring a bag of rocks, skip it. The one annoying change is the menu functions are different from my old Panasonics and going to the correct Caller List button is a miserable training issue. The integrated answering machine is great as the screened calls are played through the speaker on the handset as well as message playback. I have not had any issues with the VoiceMail indicator and I'm using with VoIP. All in all a very good handset, however skip trying to load your phone numbers from a contacts list, too clunky and it only holds 50 numbers. Oh, and yes, the belt clips are sold separately...

The bad points:
When I purchased the Phone/Camera combo I figured the video would be 'real time' or 'streaming' which it isn't. On the high resolution it updates about every 5 seconds, on low resolution it updates about every 2 seconds.
It also doesn't have night vison :(
Being there is a intercom between the handset and the camera, we get loud squealing feedback when the handset is displaying the camera image and is to close to the camera (5-8ft), if you turn the speaker on the camera down it helps. This could be a problem when used as a baby monitor. There is a mute button on the handset, so we'll have to get used to pressing it when going into that room when carrying the handset or turning the video off on the handset.

The good points are:
1) Sound activated camera, when the camera detects sound it calls the handset(Very nice feature!), or you can turn the camera on from the handset.
2) You can intercom with the camera to talk to whom ever is close by.
3) This probably should be #1, our base unit is about 30ft around and through walls, and video signal to the handset is flawless.
I believe with a little tweaking they will have the best product for use as a baby monitor.

Having Panasonic cordless phones for quite some time and knowing their range was why I choose to go this route instead of a standard baby monitor with little to no range. I walked all over the neighborhood and as usual with a panasonic phone coverage/video was flawless.