Customer Reviews

Southwestern Bell GH3062 2.4 GHz Analog Cordless Phone with Clock Radio and Caller ID (Black)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I love this clock/phone!

The controls for the alarm are all on the front of the unit,once you've memorized where they are, you can reset your alarm in some cases without even looking at it! Super easy to set, no more having to hold down buttons while it cycles through 24 hours to get to the time setting you want.

All the phone buttons are reachable even when it's in the cradle.

You can clear out your caller id listings without having to pick up the phone.

It has a new call indicator light so you can tell from a distance if there's any new calls on your id list.

The phone sound quality is decent enough for a bedroom phone.

We have several other cordless phones in the house and it does not confict with any of them.

I've gone through many digital alarms in the last 20 years and

this is by far the best!

I would recommend this phone to anyone who asked!

The first few days I used this phone/clock radio, my initial reaction was to return it. I decided to give it a fair chance, so I used it for a couple more weeks and the longer I used it, the more I was convinced it should be returned. These are my reasons for returning this unit:

~~ As other reviews mentioned, the beeping sound every time you press any of the buttons is quite annoying to you and anyone else in the room. It would be nice to have the option to turn the "beeping" off or even turn it down.

~~ The clock display is not green as pictured on the box, instead it is a bright yellow. The display is too bright even when turned down to the "low" position. It is so bright in fact, that I put 3 layers of colored cling wrap on the display to try and cut down on the glare.

~~ Because of the design of the unit being tilted up, everytime I press any of the buttons while laying down, such as to set my alarm or hit the snooze button, I end up pushing the unit half way across my night stand.

~~ The alarms are not very straight forward or user friendly, beeping at you all the while. The buttons are hard to locate in the late night and early morning when you need them the most. They should be a bit larger.

~~ The phone is basic, although in my bedroom, I use the clock radio more often then the phone. For me, the phone is really only there for the sake of convenience, not as my main house phone so it served its purpose.

I'm sure I would not have returned the unit if there were only one or even two features that I didn't like, but there were just too many to have to live with. Overall, I am quite dissatisfied with this unit and would NOT recommend it.

This is one of the very few cordless phone/clock radio combos out there with dual alarms. That said, my wife has had a love/hate relationship with the thing since we got it. Most of the love goes (went?) to the 900 MHz phone, which worked great until the warranty expired. Most of the hate goes to the clock radio, which is not intuitive to set, has an alarm that plays for 10 minutes and then shuts off (heavy sleepers will snooze through this easily), and is generally lacking in features. And as I mentioned, now that the one year warranty has expired, the handset is having frequent problems connecting to the base. So we're in the market for a new unit - but this one had so much potential...

I bought the phone as it looked great and I felt it would blend in well with other fixtures . Once I had it, it was missing a few features my old one had that were very comfortable:

-You cannot turn off the sound of the buttons when programming. This is a pain for your partner when you come to bed late and try to set the alarm.

-The radio frequency is not digital. It is on an old fashioned dial and does not tune in as precise as a digital readout.

-The buttons are hard to program in the dark as they are all the same size and they do not light up at all. A backlight on them would have been real nice.

On a positive note, it does look nice and fit into the budget I wanted to spend. I probably would have spent a little more to get some of these other features if I would have known.

Even though it's one of few dual alarm clocks with cordless phone, the design is pretty weak. The snooze button is at a bad location and you could easily shut the alarm off when intending to hit snooze. It's not the easiest to program and the phone feels rather cheap.

We had been looking for a clock radio/telephone combo unit for a while with the aim of saving space on the nightstand. This phones footprint is very compact and the clock radio portion works great. Only complaint is the phone is very basic with respect to features and low quality with respect to performance. Largest issue is it is difficult to hear a conversation.

Not alot of fancy lights and gadgets...but is a good quality telephone with two alarms. It's not a bad looking telephone either. Fits in a fairly small space and the alarm is loud enough to wake even me up. For the price...it's a great buy.

not a digital radio tuner, but..........? For this price, it does it all!! AND LOOKS GREAT! (WE NEEDED black!) We simply lower the volume of radio alarm, when we get up (or not!) and it shuts down in about an hour. I just check volume each nite before turning in. That's it!

My experience with this product is similar to other reviews here. The beeping---which occurs at times for no obvious reason---is incredibly annoying. But my major complaint is that the rechargeable battery has never kept a charge for very long, which means the handset needs to be in the cradle charging all the time. I've gotten 3 good years out of Uniden Ni-MH batteries but the SW Bell Ni-MH proved unable to hold a charge after a few months. Worse, I'm having trouble finding a replacement battery. At around $12 for such batteries I wonder if the unit is "totaled."

I searched for a long time before finding a clock radio that included a cordless phone. For some reason this is one niche that few manufacturers serve. I was attracted to this model because of the small footprint and black color. I should have kept looking.

While the clock, radio, and phone all work as promised, there are some shortcomings, some more important than others. I would have preferred a digital radio tuner, but the analog one works O.K. The biggest issue is the difficulty in setting alarms and changing which of the two alarms you want to use. Every time you push a button, any button, the unit emits a rather loud beep. You can't really sent the alarm without disturbing someone else sleeping in the room. Beyond the annoying beep, it is very difficult to turn on the alarm. You are supposed to press and hold the button once, but this often results in the alarm time flashing for at least 30 seconds, during which time you cannot do anything else. So you press it again, hoping the alarm will turn on (or off) this time. Nope, just flashing numbers. Try it a third time. Now it works and I didn't do anything different than I did the last time! The other evening I spent at least three minutes setting on the side of the bed attempting to turn off alarm 1 and turn on alarm 2. Unforgivable. In the meantime the clock is beeping each time I touch a button. (I feel a need to explain that I am not new to consumer electronics and did read the manual. It is not user error; it is bad design.)

I can only recommend this product to those that have no other option. If I had to do it over again I would keep looking.