Customer Reviews

VTech i5857 5.8-GHz Expandable Cordless Phone

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

 

 

I owned this phone for over a year and just decided to write a review based on the bad reviews it was getting. I recently upgraded to the uniden tru9465-2 not because the phone wasn't good but because my 19 month old dropped it so often that speaker phone was starting to make a buzzing sound when you put it on. Besides that the phone worked perfectly. You can mute the phone and also the base when on a call which is important if you don't want the other person hearing what you say to another person in the room. The speaker phone worked great and if you can't find the handset, there is a locator button. The intercom feature also worked really well for me. My only problem was that the caller i.d function would repeat a number more than once thus taking up your caller i.d space, so if a person called you 10 times a day, their number would be there 10 times instead of just once as with other phones. Whatever name you program in your phone directory, that's the name that comes up on your caller i.d when they call. Making it easy for you. It only holds 50 numbers so program it wisely with the numbers you really need. You can put personal pictures along with the names, the same way you do with your cell phone. The picture quality isn't all that good I must admit but overall it's a good phone. The color screen also made it easier to see at night. I gave it a 4 because nothing is great but I highly recommend this phone.

i have no problems with this phone when it works but the durability/reliability is an issue. i bought 3 additional phones and 2 out of the three were out of commission within a few months.

Very good phone. Worth the money. Power and Signal are good.

Have no complaints on this phone..enjoy everything about it. Even the colored screen is neat. Clarice Bostick

I own it with four handsets for soon 3 years and it is one reliable, top quality, nice design phone! It is feature full and terrific sound quality device. The menus are very nicely done and logically arranged. It is very strong and feels quality item. Very nice!

This is a beautiful looking phone, but, despite what the specs say, it is not compatible with hearing aids using a T-coil. It produces that loud hum that one cannot hear through.

Wow! Am I happy with this thing! I was put-off by the pictures on the box, but after I bought it and played with it for a while I fell in love. SUPER intuitive for a geekie kinda' guy, the GUI is GREAT! The ONLY way to make it better would be more control through the USB connection. And maybe more color in the display (it's 8 bit color pallet). Then I guess it would need expandable memory too? <grin>

Yes this is a great phone. I have had it for about a month and I am using it with my Packet8 VoIP. It works great and the sound quality is perfect.

The handset speakerphone works great but I wish it could be louder.

The images on the color LCD display are not very good. It has 8-bit color so there is that problem but the resolution is not that great either. You need to stick to very simple pictures if you want to be able to make out what they are. Downloading pictures to the phone was really easy and managing what is on the phone is really easy too. There is a set of pictures built into the phone that cannot be deleted - I wish they could so that I could put more of my own pictures on the phone. It would be nice if the phone had more memory. It can hold 50 numbers each associated with a picture and a distictive ring. Its cool when someone calls and a picture of the persons comes up on the LCD. It is really easy to setup and use but I do wish it had more memory. There is no way you can put 50 pictures in the phone AFAIK.

The phone feels great in you hand and is loud enogh that you don't have to press it against you head to hear well. The keypad lights up so it is easy to use in a dark room.

I am pleased that I bought this phone. I would say that this is probably the best phone in its class right now. The next generation of this phone is probably going to make all of the distracting things I have mentioned go away.

I like this phone and will probably be buying extra handsets for it soon.

I recently purchased a refurbished VTech i5857 5.8 GHz DSS Expandable Cordless Phone with Dual Keypads and Color LCD Handset from the amazon seller named ZINBO.The seller's comments on the item was "This item is refurbished in A+++++ working condition ". I was also pleased to see all the prior positive feedbacks for this seller but least did i know that something else was lying in store for me.I recieved the equipment after 1 week I placed the order.Now to describe the condition of the phone it would be more easy to point out the flaws rather than the plus points.

1stly the the phone looks very old & it seems as if it has been quiet badly used by it's prior owner .What i mean to say is that the paint on several parts of the handset including the dial digits has gone completely & it also has lot of dents & chip marks on it.

2ndly the battery life of the handset runs out very fast. So that means you have to charge the handset every day ,then what is the point of calling it as a cordless phone if you have to leave the handset in its cradle for most of the time.

3rdly the handset volume button found on its side does not work.

4thly the shipment didn't include the instruction manual of the phone.So i have no reference to check upon if i come across any problem using the phone

I really wanted to return this item but even the return policy of the seller is no good.Finally i would say that my hard earned money has totally gone waste & i have learned my lesson (though in a hard way) that i would never blindfoldly trust all the postive feedbacks of a seller.

The i5857 is a joy to use: loads of features, but insanely intuitive and simple to use. The documentation is probably the best I've seen for any product in the last decade. One of the main reasons I wanted this phone was to record a custom ringer and it took about all of about 10 seconds with the included audio cable. Highly recommended.