Uniden CellLink ELBT595 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Flip Phone with Color LCD, Answering System, and Bluetooth Capability (Titanium)

by Uniden

Product Details

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• Product Dimensions: 4.6 x 6.4 x 8.4 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007TIYES
• Item model number: ELBT595
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 1, 2005

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description With the ELBT595, Uniden introduces CellLink, the latest cordless technology that lets your cordless home phone access your cellular phone's minutes. Of course, you'll need a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone, and the economic advantages of using "free cellular minutes" will depend on your cellular agreement, but CellLink offers obvious convenience to existing cell customers. Plus, the ELBT595 offers a built-in digital answering machine, expandability to 10 handsets, enhanced caller ID with photos, an advanced phonebook, and recordable customer ringers--truly a comprehensive telephone solution.

this phone in action

Features:

• 5.8 GHz digital spread spectrum technology
• Bluetooth headset compatible
• CellLink technology allowing you to link with your Bluetooth-enabled cell phone
• Digital answering system
• Full color picture handset display
• Caller ID/call waiting deluxe options
• Battery backup during power outage
• Setup all phonebook settings using your laptop or computer
• USB connector with downloadable software included
• Expandable to a total of 10 handsets, only one phone jack required
• 100 caller ID numbers, 100 phonebook names with four numbers per name
• Advanced phonebook options, including alpha sort, group sort, multiple numbers per name
• Downloadable pictures, recordable ringer tones
• battery/clock/date/banner displays
• Hands-free speakerphone in handset and base
• DirectLink mode for two-way conversation between handsets without the base
• Transfer/intercom from handset to handset, plus handset to base
• Five-way conferencing calling
• Software and hardware included: CD-ROM, USB cable, ringer record cable

How Does Bluetooth Work?
Bluetooth technology has been incorporated into this phone to make it easy to communicate with either a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone or a wireless headset. You don't even have to think about it. Bluetooth doesn't require you to do anything special to make it work. The devices find each other and strike up a conversation without any user input at all. Now you can tap into your cell phone minutes to take advantage of your cellular plan, or just go hands-free using your land line for crystal-clear communication anywhere in the house.

How Does CellLink Work?
Uniden CellLink technology lets you easily take advantage of your cell phone's minutes. If you have a Bluetooth v1.1 compliant mobile phone and register it to the base, you can make or receive a call through your mobile line as well as your normal land line. To use your mobile line, press the Mobile soft key. The two lines will be completely independent on your ELBT595. For example, you can have one handset operating on the land line while another handset and the base unit participate in a three-way conference call on the mobile line. However, you cannot make or receive a land line call using a Bluetooth mobile phone, and a Bluetooth mobile phone will not ring when the ELBT595 receives a land line calI.

Easy, Powerful Features
Additional features include enhanced caller ID so you can see who's calling with a unique full color picture and distinctive ring. The digital answering system quickly access your answering system using your handset or your base. Volume settings adjust the ringer and speaker volumes on your handset. An advanced phonebook organizes your names and numbers, with special capabilities like storing four numbers per name and sorting names into groups.

You can easily update your phonebook settings using your computer with the USB connector and software included. Enjoy hands-free communication without wires using a Bluetooth headset or the hands-free speakerphone. Easily navigate features with a joystick and soft-key menus. Record your own ringer tones with the audio cable or handset microphone (cable included).

Compatible Handsets
This expandable base system is compatible with Uniden handset models ELX500, TCX400, TCX440, and TCX805. However, only the ELX500 is compatible the base system's Bluetooth and CellLink features.

What's in the Box
Handset (ELX500), base, rechargeable battery, power cord, USB cable, ringer record cable, belt clip, software CD-ROM, user's manual, registration/service information

Product Description

Uniden 5.8GHz Bluetooth Expandable - 5.8GHz Digital expandable cordless system with digital answering machine- Expands up to 10 handsets total- Bluetooth capable (to headset and cell phone)- USB Connector with software included- Caller ID, call waiting caller ID deluxe options- 100# Caller ID memory- 100 Name Phonebook- Dual keypads- Base backlit display screen - Full color display on handset- Unique flip phone (cell phone style) handset- Hands-free speakerphone at handset and base- New message indicator at handset and base- Transfer/intercom from handset-to-handset- Advanced phonebook options (store 4 numbers per name, alphabetical sort, group sort)- Distinctive caller ID indicators (recordable/preset ringer tones, downloadable/preset picture displays)- Call screening/call recording from handset- Soft-key menus and joystick navigation- Battery level/clock/date/animation/displays- Calendar with programmable reminders- 20 Preset ringer options (10 melodies and 10 tones)- 4-Way conference calling- Mute/hold/redial/flash- Banner display (name each handset)- Transfer memory setting from handset-to-handset- Do not disturb setting - DirectLink mode (2-way radio communication)- Room/baby monitoring- Battery backup- Ringer and speaker volume controls- Find lost handset/page key- Headset compatible (2.5mm plug)- Belt clip included- Desk or wall mountable- Digital answering machine- 12 Minutes of record time- Personal or prerecorded outgoing message- Access answering system using handset- Trilingual menu displays and voice prompts - Call screening- Time and day stamp- Toll saver- Conversation recording- Voice memo- Silver with blue backlightACCESSORY HANDSET: ELX500ELBT595

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wait for the Next Version, May 10, 2005

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Joshua Liste (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uniden CellLink ELBT595 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Flip Phone with Color LCD, Answering System, and Bluetooth Capability (Titanium) (Office Product)

I was all hyped up about getting this phone and that feeling faded after only 24hrs of owning it. This phone represents a good try by Uniden, but I feel that it needs to go back for a version 2. First, for me, the ringers on this phone do not ring loud enough (with a few expectations)....Uniden does allow you to set the base station to ring, and it does ring loudly (too loudly at night) but that defeats the reason to have a cordless phone if you are attached to the base station all day. The LCD on the closed clamshell isn't very good. It is easier to read when the backlighting is off then when on. The hinge on my phone squeaked when opening and closing and the keys on the handset feel cheap, not what you should expect from at $250 phone. The software to program the phone is nice, easy to use, and made it really convenient to program in over 50 names and reminder dates, but it would have been nice if Uniden would have allowed you to download ringtones into the phone via the software and USB cable, rather then having to record it into the phone via a mic or a line setup. The color screen is nice and bright, but too small...its like 150 pixels X 150 pixels and the images you can download for your contacts become the size of a postage stamp CUT IN HALF!! Overall it is an average phone, not worth $250, maybe $160....all I know is mine is going back to the store for a refund. See you next time Uniden.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars High-tech toy, July 10, 2005

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OA (Vancouver, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uniden CellLink ELBT595 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Flip Phone with Color LCD, Answering System, and Bluetooth Capability (Titanium) (Office Product)

This is a marvellous toy for a tech-savvy person. I give it a 5-star rating from this perspective: this is the most innovative land-line phone available in North America at the moment.

The color screen is amazing. It works pretty much like a cell phone (think early color-LCD Motorola cell phones two or three generations ago). Those with modern color cell phones will be disappointed with both size and quality of this screen: it is small, and it is STN rather than a TFT (means that colors get inverted the very moment you look at it at an angle).

Flip-phone form factor is intuitive, and ergonomically is very comfortable to use. My wife loved it.

Buttons are mostly OK. Some cell phones do offer buttons that are both more convenient and better backlit, but again, think of a Motorola clam shell a couple of generations ago.

Menus are fairly accessible. The only counter-intuitive thing that I encountered was Bluetooth setup. This has to be done from the base, and it is not duplicated on the handset, which was confusing to the degree of havnig to refer to the manual. Everything else is pretty intuitive.

Some reviews mentioned squeaks when opening handset; mine does not have that. Build quality is OK to me, but it does not match even the Uniden's own TRU8885. It just feels too "plasticky" compared to the 8885.

Sound quality is great. It even has sound adjustment (two settings allowing to boost low or high frequencies, and one flat setting), which I didn't really care for. In this aspect, Uniden is the king: their 5.8 GHz phones just do sound better than anything else that I used.

Other things are pretty standard; not much I can say about the answering machine, intercom, and the rest. They are here, and they work.

This is a great tech toy highly recommended for enthusiasts. For all the rest, check out the TRU8885, as it provides most of the features, same sound quality, and better build quality.

87 of 100 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good concept... but falls short, May 6, 2005

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ThomasN (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uniden CellLink ELBT595 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Flip Phone with Color LCD, Answering System, and Bluetooth Capability (Titanium) (Office Product)

Just gotten this phone with an extra handset for only few days and so far, I've been somewhat pleased with the performance. The system has a wealth of features, yet relatively easy to setup & operate. The main highlight is the cell phone-like function & design with Bluetooth technology. The sound quality on both ends is loud and clear. My Motorola HS850 bluetooth headset links up without a hitch. However, its shortcomings are the buttons on the handset which feels too plastic, and the LCD on the front side of the handset is difficult to read, even more so when lit. A friend had commented that the handset's LCD screen is small and OS software looks primitive. He also added that the handset's plastic housing doesn't have a solid feel to it. By the way, when opening/closing the handset, the hinge squeaks. For that price, one expects higher quality materials used and have good, solid construction. Also a concern is the battery charge/life. So far, I noticed that a charge yields about the same as a typical cell phone talk time, which is relatively short for a cordless phone. All said, I have until the end of the month to put it thru a thorough test before having the option of returning it.

UPDATE - Had the phone for a week now... and it's going back to the store. Guess it didn't make it to the end of the month. Too expensive of a phone system that has too many shortcomings. I'll hold off for a 2nd generation. This should have been a 2-star rating (maybe 3-star), but definitely not a 5-star.