Philips CD 4401 High DefVoice Cordless Speaker Phone

by Philips

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 4 x 6.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000RQBGZU
• Item model number: CD 4401
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #54 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Telephones & Accessories > Audio Conferencing
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 9, 2007

Product Description

PHILIPS CD 4401 High Def Voice Speaker Phone with voice clarity as clear as a face to face conversation. The CD4 series puts the emotion back into a call. HD sound brings people and their feelings closer together. Hands free mode uses a built-in loud speaker to amplify the voice of the caller, allowing you to speak and listen during a call without holding the phone to your ear. This is especially useful if you want to share the call with others or take notes during a call. Philips unique acoustic design provides a high-quality, rich communications experience. A best-in-class system designed for superb call clarity. Thanks to an advanced digital technology, calls are undisturbed by interferences from other devices. Enjoy high quality conversation, with a level of clarity rarely heard before. Thanks to a high quality speaker and to a real acoustic chamber, the audio spectrum reaches far beyond what is normally heard on a telephone. Handset has blue backlit display with 2 lines of text and up/down volume control. The phone has 100 name and number phonebook capacity and will accept up to 5 handsets.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent phone that shouldn't be overlooked/misunderstood, July 14, 2008

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sskein (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips CD 4401 High DefVoice Cordless Speaker Phone (Office Product)

I am compelled to write this review because it has been reviewed poorly by other reviewers and I feel this is unfair. If you decide to purchase the phone, I highly recommend that you read through the instructions carefully. Everything is explained there quite simply. This is a smart phone with a lot of capabilities and options. In order to make use of the vast choices, you have to know what exists and how to access them. Once you do, it's quite logical.

When I was shopping for a new phone, I looked for a variety of features. This phone had exactly what I wanted:
*No answering machine (I have digital voice mail through phone service.)
*Caller ID, Call waiting, Call waiting ID
*Nice looking
*Good quality
*Buttons that are easy to press and it is clear when buttons are depressed
*Headset Jack
*Speaker phone

I shopped for the phone in person at a store rather than online so that I could feel the phone and see its quality up close. I really liked the design and feel so I purchased it.

At first, it took some getting used to. As others have mentioned in their reviews of the same product but in different bundles (e.g.Philips CD4402B/37 DECT 6.0 Digital Cordless Phone System with 2 Handsets, there were a few features that were a bit odd:
1) When dialing, the key is registered not when you depress a button but when you release it.
2) To get to the caller ID list, you have to press "CID" then "OK," whereas to get to the phonebook, you need only press "PBK."
3) Its small size makes it tricky to rest it on your shoulder and hold it "hands free" while conversing.

But, because the phone is so good in other ways, I found it easy to forgive Philips for these now seemingly minor issues. Not only did it meet the criteria I had listed above, I also found that...
*The sound quality is excellent.
*It does not interfere with my wireless internet service.
*It was easy to add on an extra handset: Philips CD4450B High Def Voice Cordless Phone Handset for CD440 & CD445 Series
*I could easily transfer my phonebook to the new handset.
*I could label each handset with a name that described where it's base/charger is located in my home (e.g. "by printer" or "dining rm")
*The light that indicates you have a new call not only shuts off when you view the caller ID on one handset but shuts off on the other handset.

In a nutshell, this phone doesn't have the stuff I don't want yet has the stuff I now realize I needed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars portable phone, February 11, 2008

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Alexandria, VA "retired lady" (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Philips CD 4401 High DefVoice Cordless Speaker Phone (Office Product)

Philips CD 4401 High DefVoice Cordless Speaker Phone is terrible. It is hard to hear, hard to program and hard to work with in general. I will try to return it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars telephone, January 17, 2008

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Jacquelyn Slocum (Ellsworth, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Philips CD 4401 High DefVoice Cordless Speaker Phone (Office Product)

I bought this for the office for a tele-conference call. It worked great. It was one of the few phones that you could by singularly and without an answering machine