Customer Reviews

VTech 2498 2.4 GHz Analog Cordless Phone with Corded Base and Caller ID (Silver and Black)

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This phone is a good combination of both the "corded" and the "cordless" worlds of phones. The corded "home station" of this phone will work even if the power is off, which is something many people overlook when buying a phone. The adjunct handset can be put anywhere there's an a/c outlet, and doesn't require a phone jack.

I have telephone company voice messaging, so the Message Waiting light is a real plus. The speakerphone has good sound quality. My only complaint is that the home station doesn't have any autodial keys for frequently called numbers. All stored numbers are in the main directory. Also, interestingly, there is no place on either station to record your own phone number.

However, my likes outweigh my dislikes on this phone, and I definitely recommend it.

Within the 1st few weeks of owning the phone the cordless battery needed to be replaced. A few months later the cordless earpiece stopped producing sound. I've bought numerous $20 or less portables that are tougher and a better value. The base unit is fine but does nothing extraordinary that you can't get for less elsewhere.

What a terrific system. The phones both work great and offer the flexablility of a cordless and the convienience of a corded phone, all in one package. The corded phone also has a speakerphone that actually sounds good and numerous other features. Well worth the money.

The quality of this phone has turned me on to vTech again! The voice quality is great; only downside is the handset bade, which is poorly designed and rarely makes solid contact with the cordless battery. But the corded phone and speakerphone are great!

I wanted a basic desktop phone without a lot of bells and whistles. Basic directory, speaker, mute, for home office. It has all these basic features with a portable handset as a bonus for a great price. Those listening to me on speaker say it is very clear, no static. Highly recommended for a basic home office phone.

This phone has some nice features, including the easy to see back lit display, and the red blinking message light that indicates that my voice mail from the phone co has new messages. The one important feature missing is dial back of numbers shown in caller ID. It saves the 10 digit area code and number, i.e. 555-555-1234. If you press "display dial", it dials those 10 digits. In my area, like many, I think, there are times when you must only dial 7 digits, and other times when you must dial "1" plus the area code and then 7 digits. Dialing all ten digits for a call within my same area code won't go through, nor will a call outside my area code without a "1" before the 10 digits. I have other Caller ID Phones that prompt for these rules during set-up so that they know how to return calls with a one touch call back of the caller ID number shown. This one doen't.

Pics up strange signals, maybe from my wifi, which puts the handset on Hold when no one is on the line, or puts the handset into intercom mode.

Sound is good. The recently call list works very nice for calling people back.

This phone didn't work well for us at all. The connection was always bad (fuzzy). My husband just went to Walgreen's and picked up a $10 phone and the connection is much better. I wouldn't recommend this phone.

The old adage, "You get what you pay for," is applicable here. The base unit was functional enough, nothing special, and seemed to be well made. The cordless handset, although phyically decent, was totally inept and useless. According to the manual it was attributed to "interference in the 2.4ghz transmission frequency." There were so many caveats associated with the handset, "can't be near computer, radio, cell phone, microwave, cable TV, etc...." The recommended solutions were just as unuseable as the handset, "unplug the base, unhook the battery, reconnect both", "move the base closer to the handset," None of those worked, as a matter of fact in total desperation I put the cordless base right next to the corded base unit and it still did not work. I moved them both to the bedroom and still nothing, oh excuse me I did have a clock radio in there so that must have been responsible for insurmountable interference. Ended up returning the unit.