Customer Reviews

Panasonic KX-TGA650B 5.8GHZ Expandable 2-Line Handset for use with KX-TG6500B/6502B (Black)

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I have owned many cordless phones ever since the 1st 46/49 Mhz phones came to market. I've owned Vtec's, Uniden's etc.
After hours of research, I bought this 2 line Panasonic. I've had it for about one year now, so I can give you a review based upon a good period of time owning it.

Here's the very basic reason why I selected this model:

1- Two lines
2-Expandable
3-5.8 gig frequency so it doesn't interfere with 2.4 gig device in my home.

Here's why it's the best cordless I've ever owned.

1- I could test it out for awhile before adding/investing in addtional handsets.

2- It fits in your hand like a normal phone. Many of the new cordless phones are getting so high tech looking and sleek that they are either hard or uncomfortable to hold. The Panasonic handset is the most comfortable on the market. Ever try cradling a cell phone or too small cordless between you neck and shoulder for a moment while you pick something up from the floor? Not easy, unless of course it's this phone.

3- The part of the phone that touches your ear is designed properly. Many of they newer competitors phones are convex at the earpiece instead of concave. Very uncomfortable... Panasonic...Perfect!!

4-Big LCD display. No need to squint to see this one.

5-Normal sized and properly spaced keypad buttons that are raised. You won't make an accidental dialing mistake with this phone and you won't feel like you need a pen to dial it.

6-You can set the volume of the phone to retain the setting you like. On many of the competitions phones, you may have to adjust the vol. to where you like it, every time you pick it up.

7-Great, very CLEAR sounding speakerphone built into each handset. Very useful when holding for i.e. a customer service dept.

8- Natural sounding on receive side. Good volume and sound reported by people I'm talking to. (Many competitors phones I've tried have low receive and/or transmit volume). On this one, no one has ever asked me, "Are you on the cordless"

9-Very rare that I ever get a broken or choppy signal. It's solid. It even works 100% around my yard/outside.

9-Good battery life/runtime.

10-Loaded with features. Like the fact that if something went wrong or one phone broke, my directory is still in other handset I have if I selected to download them initially to other phones.

11- Durable!! We have dropped this phone from about 3+ feet many times and it has not broken yet.

What needs improvement:

1- Missed call indication is almost useless. To clear it you MUST scroll through Caller ID past the missed call to clear it. Not a big deal...just useless.

2- (On the built in Voicemail)I can't save messages "as new" once I've listended to them. Problem if my wife is not home; then I see the message light blinking, I press it to listen to message. Of course the message turns out to be for my wife. But, now that I've listened to it, the message lamp is extinguished... Wife returns and has no idea there is a message for her. I have to leave her a note telling her to manually listen to "saved messages".

3- No battery backup. This was one feature I liked in some of the older VTEC phones. In a power failure, the battery backup let you continue to use your cordless phones. I don't think Panasonic or any other manufac. has a cordless 2 line with Battery backup.

So if you are looking for a great cordless 2 line... This is the one!! Almost perfect, but a definate against the competition.

The product is great, but be very careful on who the vendor is. I found this product for much less and sent back the one that I bought from ACE PHOTO AND DIGITAL and for a $240 product, they took $40 for a restocking fee.

This is an excellent product. It works flawlessly and is very easy to set-up.

I won't go into any technicalities as the other reviews have more than covered them. We just purchased a third handset for this phone. It is so convenient to have extensions in three different rooms that can easily be moved around. The quality and features of this handset (and the two that came with the phone) are excellent - speaker, intercom, address book on each phone, mute, hold, etc..

As others have noted, this phone system works very well, but it does require the ability to read instruction manuals; and the endless "missed call" messages on all phones other than the one on which you pick up a call are annoying.

Purchased to use with system, easy to use, good quality and has provided use of 2 lines coming into the home into newly remodeled basement without re-wire.

works well. does all the things it says it does including each extention connects to master to retrieve messages. works as intercom. like ability to save phone numbers to all phones or just selected phones. speakerphone works well on all phones. only problem so far is some volume drop requiring readjustment during call. works thruout house and outside without problem.

I bought this phone to overcome the WiFi networking problems I was having: if I was working over the WiFi with my laptop and got a telephone call, my 2.6 GHz phone would interfere with the signal, and I would get disconnected. For that purpose, I am very satisfied. I also really like the speakerphone operation, and the range of the phone around the house.

I also bought two other sets to interoperate with this base station. Because of the phone's range, I am able to place handsets around the house without cabling - very nice.

Some others have mentioned that the voice level is too low for them. I have not found this to be a problem.

If there is any deficiency, it is that multiple handsets do not interoperate fully. As an example, they all show how many calls were missed while I was away; but if I clear that message on one handset, it doesn't clear on all of them. I have to go around to each handset and clear it. Also, the phone books are not synched: you have to add numbers to each phone.

I would still recommend the phone system, especially for those that use WiFi/802.11 wireless networking.

Very good 2-line phone. Great volume. Only problem is that when the 2nd line rings, it cuts out the primary line for a fairly lengthy time. The cutout delay is much longer than a call waiting beep for example. I estimate the cutout at 500 msec.

We now have 4 phones on this Panasonic system. Performance is excellent; the system diversity (2 antennas at the base station) has virtually assured that there are no drop-outs anywhere in our house (2 stories plus basement). A slight drawback is that it can be daunting to learn how to use all the capabilities of the full-featured phone system (two lines plus intercom) but, of course, this is not necessary. Just learn what you need.